As discovery systems take the Library world by storm, there is a new opportunity for user-centred information literacy programs to emerge. As library search gets easier and varied platforms become unified, the focus of information literacy on search rules and platform choice and navigation will (finally) be able to truly give way to critical thinking and imaginative exploration. These are skills and aptitudes that are needed well beyond the academic environmentmaking them much more meaningful and useful for many of our users. This paper will explore how the adoption of discovery systems might impact various user groups in higher education environments, especially on undergraduates and teaching faculty. How will these new tools impact our users? How will our users utilize such tools? What do users need to learn to exploit these new systems effectively? As we move away from strict search rules, will creativity, serendipity and cross-disciplinarity come to library search in new and fruitful ways? How will this change the research experience? The session will ground some of these broad questions in the experience of a medium-sized university library adopting a discovery system and rethinking its information literacy approaches. The Hong Kong Baptist University Library has a strong, curriculum-integrated information literacy program. The Library is planning to adopt and implement a discovery system in the first half of 2012, and this session will illustrate how and where the adoption of the system is changing the learning outcomes and pedagogical approaches used in our information literacy outlook, offerings, collaborations and materials.
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