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Syracuse University Libraries’ Information Literacy Scholars Produce Information Literacy Collab Journal

Thursday, May 29, 2025, By Cristina Hatem

Earlier this month, Syracuse University Libraries’ Information Literacy Scholars published their first open access information literacy journal, Information Literacy Collab (ILC). It is available on SURFACE, the University’s open access institutional repository.

ILC is a diamond open-access publication by and for students and early career professionals that fosters critical conversations about reflective and ethical information practices within a variety of learning environments. Diamond open-access is a publication model in which journals and platforms do not charge fees to either authors or readers. Student involvement is one of the Information Literacy Scholars’ strongest guiding values, so ILC encourages submissions by current students and early career professionals in the field of library and information science to develop their skills in scholarly communications and open access publishing.

The first issue includes the following:

  • Welcome from the Information Literacy Librarian, by Kelly Delevan
  • Letter from the First and Second Editors-in-Chief, by Olivia Russo Haven and Emily Warfield
  • Reflection Experience as a New Information Literacy Instructor, by Joel Carpenter
  • Interview with Early Career Librarians Marianne Donley and Rebecca Johnston, by Grace Suhadolnik
  • Interview with Early Career Librarian Seyvion Scott, by Rebecca McCall

“When we began the IL Scholars program in 2019, we wanted to focus primarily on training graduate students to become strong library instructors,” says Kelly Delevan, information literacy librarian and head of information literacy at Syracuse University Libraries. “In 2023, two of our colleagues at the SU Libraries, Dylan Mohr, open scholarship librarian, and Grace Swinnerton, digital project librarian (and a former information literacy scholar) suggested that a journal on information literacy could be a great project for the IL Scholars to work on. Fast forward to today, and we are delighted to publish the first issue.”

Submissions will be accepted each fall and can include informational studies, instructional lessons, traditional academic papers, case studies, book reviews, editorials and literature reviews. For more information, visit https://surface.syr.edu/ilcollab/.