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Welcome
Project Information Literacy is a national study about early adults and their information-seeking behaviors, competencies, and the challenges they face when conducting research in the digital age.
Based in University of Washington's iSchool, the large-scale research project investigates how early adults on different college campuses conduct research for course work and how they conduct "everyday research" for use in their daily lives... more >
What Is PIL? >
What is PIL? A short video about our ongoing research study, including our research questions and what we have discovered about how today's college students find information and conduct research for coursework and in their everyday lives.
Smart Talks >
In our latest "Smart Talks" interview, we talked with David Weinberger, technologist, author, and well-regarded pundit. David discusses his new book and the tectonic shift to an era of networked knowledge and says "the network of people discussing ideas, disagreeing, developing, explaining it to one another -- that's where the knowledge develops and lives" more...>
Technology Study >
How do college students manage and use technology while they are in the library during the final weeks of the term? Read PIL's 2011 research report with findings from 560 undergraduate interviews conducted at 10 U.S. campuses during spring 2011 (72 pages, 6.1 MB). Watch the preview video.
Tune In: PIL Videos >
Tune into PIL's Information Literacy Dialogs (ILD), a series of short videos about research and writing assignments, finding context for research tasks, the strategies students use for finding information, their frustrations with research, their use of Wikipedia, and procrastination. You can also subscribe to the PIL ILD channel for our future releases. (See the PIL video page for compressed WMV formats; no permission needed for re-use.)
Who's in the Sample? >
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See which community colleges, public colleges and universities, and private colleges and universities in the U.S. have already joined the volunteer sample. Want to join? Drop us a line.
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