Student academic integrity

Academic librarians involved in library instruction have historically encountered issues of student academic integrity in limited measures. Prior to the growth of information literacy programming, opportunities to formally develop educational strategies to prevent students' unethical usage of information typically only surfaced through committee work or collaboration with concerned faculty. Today however, librarians are becoming both increasingly more relied upon and proactive in educating students about plagiarism and other issues of academic integrity through information literacy instruction and educational programming. It is important for instruction librarians, both new and seasoned, to keep abreast of the latest pedagogical approaches being employed to introduce students to issues involving academic integrity. There are many important roles that librarians and libraries can play in raising awareness about the ethical usages of information.