The current information literacy instruction environment for government documents, Pt. 1.

Information literacy (IL) has been a focus of attention for many library organizations, most notably by the Association of College and Research Libraries' Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education Standards (Standards).1Discipline-focused organizations have become involved, as well, in IL either directly or indirectly as seen in the National Science Education Standards.2 Librarians develop instruction sessions to be more than learning a technique (bibliographic instruction) but to instill concepts that can be applied to a variety of information need situations (information literacy). GODORT has begun examining how government document resources fit into the information literacy movement.