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Project Information Literacy is a national study about early adults and their information-seeking behaviors, competencies, and the challenges they face when conducting research in the digital age.

Based in University of Washington's iSchool, the large-scale research project investigates how early adults on different college campuses conduct research for course work and how they conduct "everyday research" for use in their daily lives... more >

Read PIL's Latest Report >

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Just released is PIL's "Lessons Learned: How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age," with findings from our large-scale student survey administered on six different U.S. campuses during Spring 2009 (42 pages, PDF, 3MB).

Tune into PIL's video series >

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What are college students frustrations (2:35) with conducting research? What do students say about using Wikipedia (2:11) or why they procrastinate on course research assignments (2:11)? The PIL InfoLit Dialogs are a series of short public service videos available to anyone for discussion, debate and use in training and education. (See publications page for WMV downloads.)

Who's in the sample, so far? >

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See which community colleges, public colleges and universities, and private colleges and universities in the U.S. have already joined the volunteer sample.