Speakeasy Studio and Cafe: Information literacy, Web-based library instruction, and technology

Library instruction in the modern university is, increasingly, the task of creating and maintaining an information-literate populace well-schooled in advanced principles of information access. The librarian/teacher strives to help students develop scholarly research and information-gathering skills, The world the student pre pares to enter is a digital one and the best-prepared student is the one who has learned the important skills of critical thinking and the art of the question while immersed in the Web-based environment of a discussion tool like Speakeasy Studio and Cafe.