Take the Information Literacy Competency Exam - Jan. 23 – Feb. 1

[Mark Mastrean]

The *Information Literacy Competency Exam* is an alternative way for you to
meet your LIB190 course requirement.

*About the Exam*
If you already have a passing grade for the LIB course, you do not need to
take this exam.

   - By passing the exam, you meet the Information Literacy General
   Education/Cardinal Core requirement, but do not receive the credit hour.
   - Students who have a grade of E or W for the LIB course can meet the
   requirement by passing the exam. Note that the exam does not remove or
   replace a letter grade.
   - Students can take the exam more than once, but only once in any
   academic year (Aug. – May).

*How to take the Exam*
The 2023 exam will be available online in Moodle from *Monday, Jan. 23
through Wednesday, Feb 1*. It will also be offered during advising
from *Monday,
April 10 to April 28*.

   - Self-enroll for the exam
   <https://moodle.plattsburgh.edu/course/view.php?id=29281> by visiting
   the Information Literacy Exam Moodle site during the listed
   exam-availability dates.
   - The exam has 47 questions. You have one hour to complete it (unless
   you are eligible for extended time. (See below).

*Steps to be considered for Extended-Time Testing*

   1. Begin by self-enrolling on the Exam Moodle site
   <https://moodle.plattsburgh.edu/course/view.php?id=29281>.
   2. Next, complete this form <https://forms.gle/G3haLo9ykREuNMPaA>.
The Accessibility
   Resources Office (ARO) will check your eligibility.
   3. If you are determined to be eligible for extended-time testing, you
   will then receive a confirmation email that your exam time has been
   adjusted, and you can then start the exam.

*Review Information Literacy Basics*
We encourage you to review *The Information Literacy User’s Guide: An Open
Online Textbook
<https://milneopentextbooks.org/the-information-literacy-users-guide-an-open-online-textbook/>*.
This Guide will acquaint you with basic information literacy concepts.

*If you have questions* about the exam, please contact Michelle Toth,
associate librarian, at tothmm at plattsburgh.edu
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