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"# College students think of information seeking as a rote process and tend to use the same small set of information resources no matter their question. # Information literacy is essential for lifelong learning and empowers individuals and societies. # Our educational system should expose students to information literacy from elementary school through postsecondary education so that it is a habit of mind they can call upon throughout their lives. # Collaborative efforts between faculty, librarians, technology professionals, and others can develop students who graduate with information literacy competency."

CLIP is a partnership between Western Oregon University, Oregon State University, Willamette University, and Chemeketa Community College whose mission is to design and develop sharable, web-based tutorials to assist in library instruction and information literacy. Use navigation above or to the left. View tutorials currently available on the Tutorials page.

"Wikipedia provides Internet users with millions of articles on a broad range of topics, and commonly ranks first in search engines. But its reliability and credibility fall well short of the standards for a school paper. According to Wikipedia itself, "[W]hile some articles are of the highest quality of scholarship, others are admittedly complete rubbish. … use [Wikipedia] with an informed understanding of what it is and what it isn't.""