TY - JOUR AB - Purpose– Effective integration of information literacy skills into the business curriculum requires the development of collaborative partnerships between teaching faculty and librarians. Developing a good partnership requires an understanding of the teaching faculty's perspectives. This paper aims to address these issues.Design/methodology/approach– A survey was sent to business teaching faculty at California State Universities to determine their expectations in regards to student information literacy skills.Findings– Writing a report or project that required in‐depth research is one of the major expectations. All faculty surveyed expect students to use library research for their assignments.Originality/value– Business faculty and librarians will be able to use these findings in developing guidelines to integrate information literacy into coursework, assignments and research tools. VL - 34 IS - 1 SN - 0090-7324 DO - 10.1108/00907320610648789 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/00907320610648789 AU - Wu Yuhfen Diana AU - Lee Kendall Susan PY - 2006 Y1 - 2006/01/01 TI - Teaching faculty's perspectives on business information literacy T2 - Reference Services Review PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 86 EP - 96 Y2 - 2024/04/23 ER -