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This article suggests a new approach to teaching information literacy: creating “a framework that focuses on higher education’s need to prepare students to be content creators within their disciplinary or professional specialties. Delineating the skills that students need in order to create content within the disciplinary context could be a more meaningful way of encouraging the integration of a wide variety of skills into the curriculum. Although information professionals may be able to neatly compartmentalize various literacies [e.g., media, technical, information], these divisions are beside the point for student content creators.”