These outcomes were produced by a group of librarians that examined, the Kenyon 2020 Strategic Plan, a variety of Kenyon discipline-specific learning outcomes, the Association of College and Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy, the Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy from the Society of American Archivists, in addition to the learning outcomes at a variety of college libraries in the U.S. All Kenyon College librarians participated in the final process. As of Fall 2019 we plan to include them in our instructional session statistics and evaluate their use going forward. Learning Outcomes are intended to be assessable goals from which the focus of our library instruction can be centered.

As the demand for library instruction and the need for information literacy increases, Kenyon College Librarians have determined that learning goals will help our instruction develop with intention and focus for the skills students need now, as wells as a greater understanding  and use of our evolving information landscape that will last for our students far after graduation. Learning outcomes are intended to focus our instruction on the deeper concepts, issues, and uses of information in all its forms. They are designed and instructed with the intent to apply from classroom to classroom and far beyond Kenyon so that students interact responsibly, efficiently, and effectively with the information that surrounds them.

The Information Literacy Learning Outcomes are in alignment with Kenyon Curricular Policy Committee Goals and align heavily in the following sections of Kenyon's accrediting board, the Higher Learning Commission: Criterion 2. Integrity: Ethical and Responsible Conduct; Criterion 3. Teaching and Learning: Quality Resources and Support; Criterion 4. Teaching and Learning: Evaluation and Improvement.