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Information Literacy

What is information literacy?   Organisations
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For Academics Models

What is information literacy?

The Australian and New Zealand Information Literacy Framework: principles, standards and practice identifies 6 core information literacy standards.

The information literate person:

  • recognises the need for information and determines the nature and extent of the
    information needed
  • finds needed information effectively and efficiently
  • critically evaluates information and the information seeking process
  • manages information collected or generated
  • applies prior and new information to construct new concepts or create new
    understandings
  • uses information with understanding and acknowledges cultural, ethical, economic,
    legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information

from Australian and New Zealand Information Literacy Framework: principles, standards and practice. 2004. Second edition. ANZIIL (Australian and New Zealand Institute for Information Literacy.) (pdf)

Web pages - Directory style pages

These pages have links to a variety of information - publications, directories, lists etc.


Information literacy on the WWW - from Florida - a USA view
University of Skoevde pages - From Sweden, Ola Pilerot's pages offer bibliographies, web sites, mailing lists and articles (all in English). Excellent resource.
Information literacy web pages from Calgary - includes articles and web sites

For academics

These pages offer information of particular use to academics and librarians considering how information literacy can be incorporated into academic teaching programs.

Information literacy in a nutshell for academics - again a USA collection but explains terms and has a wealth of information in it.

 

Models

These pages show collaborative models for the integration of information literacy into academic programs and offer ideas and suggestions for setting up such programs.

Dedicate - distance education information courses page - a European universities' collaborative project

The Big6 skills page

Suny Information Literacy page

Online Papers

 

Papers and presentations - USA site

CQU's links - a bibliography

Online tutorials

TILT

Compass

Organisations

ANZIIL (Australian and New Zealand Institute for Information Literacy)

Institute for Information Literacy