Information Literacy and Digital Access

Abstract

Copyright: © 2014 Hadley AJ. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. I am a digital immigrant. Having begun undergraduate study in speech-language pathology in 1979 and completing my master’s degree in 1984, my native territory involved index cards, depositing many dimes into a photo copier, and waiting weeks or months for articles to arrive in the mail. These practices seem ancient and foreign to the digital natives I now teach as an Associate Professor of Communication Disorders. I completed a doctoral degree after the turn of the millennium. That journey marked my immigration to the world of digital information. I am now honored to be invited to write an editorial for the inaugural edition of the Journal of Communication Disorders, Deaf Studies, and Hearing Aids, an Open Access journal.