As he sets it up in his blog post, this may be true for Wayne or for Wayne's library on his campus, but it's not true at my library on my campus. Here, we're directly involved in all 5 points of the ACRL standards either at the level of working with students or at the level of developing assignments or curricula in collaboration with others on campus. That said, it's a mistake to think that librarians are the *only* people who play a large direct role in information literacy. The student, the professor, other academic support units on campus, and the library all play roles to varying degrees depending on the student and the course. - lris

Iris, I think of your campus as an excellent example of how to respond to the dynamics Wayne describes. Would you be willing to say something about the historical process that got y'all to that point? - Mark Kille

Hmm, well, I'm not sure if writing this out will make it sound more planned or more serendipitous than it actually was. There was an initial heavy push, funded by a Mellon grant, to create our liaison instruction/appointment roles (that was mostly before my time) and work with a few key departments on campus to integrate information literacy into their work. After that, a lot of it has been a combination of personal initiative to participate in faculty development and faculty-run curricular initiatives on campus, which has led in many cases to being directly involved in shaping teaching and the curriculum, but even when the influence isn't that direct there's still influence in participation. As a group, we also sit down once in a while and think about the campus and where we are and aren't involved and whether that matches our priorities and mission. - lris

It's happened slowly over 6-8 years, and unexpected things (like our social sciences librarian helping out with the quantitative reasoning initiative) have had major pay-offs in terms of setting campus and administrative expectations for how we participate on campus. Other big pushes haven't paid off nearly as much. We notice that when we participate in the faculty book groups, we get more classes... weird things like that. It's mostly a very subtle "we're here... everywhere" kind of approach. - lris

Thanks, Iris! - Mark Kille