Mock Turtle writes “To celebrate International Literacy Day (which was September 8) and the beginning of the United Nations Literacy Decade (2003-2012), Canada’s Media Awareness Network web site currently features practical Internet and media literacy resources that public and school libraries can use in their programming. The site includes interactive tools such as “Jo Cool or Jo Fool,” in which students tour a set of mock web sites and test their surfing savvy.”
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Shuttle – Information Literacy
Troy Johnson writes \”CNN made an interesting mistake about the speed of the shuttle at the time of the tragedy. At My Site there is a picture I took of my TV screen that shows the error. Interesting information mistake when one thinks of Information Literacy. So much for the line, \”I heard it on CNN\” \”
Information Literacy Instruction in Higher Education
Marian writes: “Eric has a wonderful Article By Abby Kasowitz-Scheer and Michael Pasqualoni on Information literacy instruction. They cover ACRL’s Best Practices Initiative, have a great bibliography, and make some wonderful points. They say Information literacy instruction is alive and well on campuses today. However, there is much work to be done before integrated ILI across the curriculum is standard practice. It’s a bit older than most things you point to, from June 2002, but worth the read!”
Note: You might need a subcription to read this.
Defining Information Literacy
Information Highways has an Intersting Piece by Susanne Hasulo who says most people tend to equate information literacy with the mastery of various technologies to access and retrieve information, with less thought to how to evaluate and apply that information. She asks can knowledge workers agree on what information literacy really means, and more importantly, can these crucial skills be learned?
\”We\’re in an era where every client that phones me says \’How can I take more costs out of my business?\’ Stop treating everything you do heroically and start treating your process and your [employees\’] knowledge as an asset available for use. Because the more we look at it, the more we realize that the real savings comes from exactly that, from turning data into knowledge.\”
New Listserv Announcement: Information Literacy Instruction Listserv (ILI-L)
Sarah McDaniel writes \”The Information Literacy Instruction Listserv (ILI-L) began in June 2002 as a new iteration of the now-defunct Bibliographic Instruction Listserv (BI-L). ILI-L is hosted on the American Library Association server and sponsored by the Instruction Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
Sarah McDaniel writes \”The Information Literacy Instruction Listserv (ILI-L) began in June 2002 as a new iteration of the now-defunct Bibliographic Instruction Listserv (BI-L). ILI-L is hosted on the American Library Association server and sponsored by the Instruction Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.For over a decade, BI-L subscribers discussed “the practical, theoretical and technical aspects of helping library users locate, evaluate, and manage information.” In recent years, librarians and educators increasingly framed discussions of these topics in the wider context of information literacy. The 1989 Report of the Presidential Committee on Information Literacy defined information Literacy as the ability to “recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.” (http://www.ala.org/acrl/nili/ilit1st.html). The new name of the list addresses this broader framework, while still encompassing all the topics discussed on BI-L.
Having the list hosted on the American Library Association server and managed by the ACRL Instruction Section List Manager will assure that this important listserv will have a permanent home. ILI-L is not a venue for ACRL Instruction Section business: a separate network of listservs is in place for that purpose. Nor does ACRL-sponsorship imply an exclusive focus on academic libraries: part of what made BI-L great was the active participation of librarians from a variety of settings, and ILI-L is intended to be equally inclusive.
For a record of the discussion on the new list so far, you can visit the online archive at http://bubl.ac.uk/mail/ilild/ I hope you’ll decide to subscribe! If you’re interested, subscription instructions are available at http://www.ala.org/acrl/is/ilil.html
Please email Sarah McDaniel ([email protected]) if you have any questions about ILI-L. \”
Information Literacy Roundtable Webcast Today
Learning Week will Webcast a roundtable discussion on information literacy today at 1:00 PM U.S. EST. Participants will be:
Karen Schneider, Coordinator of the Librarians\’ Index to the Internet, and American Libraries Columnist
Ilene Rockman, Manager of the Information Competence Initiative for the Office of the Chancellor, The California State University
Nancy Hammeke, Executive Director, Abington Township Public Libraries, PA
Janice McNally, Lead Consultant for Colorado State Library sponsored LSTA Grant Project to revise the
Colorado Information Power Handbook
This \’cast will be available after the fact (along with previous ones) via the Learning Week archive.
Online Information Literacy Resources
A very extensive list from the librarians at Sweden\’s Skövde University.
Thanks to wood s lot.
Meeting the Information Literacy Needs of Spanish Speakers
Dawn Smith writes \”I was curious to see what sort of technology services are offered to multicultural patrons – specifically Hispanic & Spanish speaking patrons – at libraries around the country.
It seems to me that there is a huge gap in these services.
The New York public library offers one computer class in Spanish (for all of the branches too, not just the main library)! I am doing some research on this, I would be really interested in comments, or even a story.
Thanks!
Dawn Smith \”
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