Nowadays technology makes information accessible for everyone everywhere. The art of selecting the
best information in a short period of time and use it correctly is called information literacy. Information
literacy training provides students with the tools necessary to efficiently find and correctly use the
information needed for learning purposes. Acquiring these skills is a process that takes time: during
the whole academic period, learners need different information types that require other ways of
information seeking and processing. The Millennials, the new generation of students that now
populate the universities have a new way of processing information. They have a very short attention
span and they are more critical about the what, when and how they learn [Oblinger, 2005]. Classical
learning methods, where teachers tell students what they need to do are not attractive. Students get
bored quickly, not paying attention to the lesson. How can libraries offer those lessons in such a
manner that students get motivated to learn and use it every time they search for information? The
challenge for academic libraries is to motivate students to acquire information skills, so that they use
these skills in their academic study and keep looking for new tips and tricks on information retrieval.
The approach to how to get students to this point is a concern for academic libraries. Learning
methods can be used to improve educational materials on information literacy. Many libraries are
making efforts to develop more effective ways of teaching information literacy. This paper aims to
contribute to this issue, describing a research project on the learning effects of students using a game
and a web-based tutorial on Information Literacy developed by the Vrije University Amsterdam
