Special Interest Group - Information Literacy

Tom Kaun
Chair: Tom Kaun

The Information Literacy Team
Kathy Lemaire (Europe)
Karen Campbell (North Africa / Middle East)
Dr Lesley Farmer (USA)
Dr Virginia Wallace (USA)

Objectives:

  1. to promote information literacy as a central concept in all school curriculums and to work toward its integration in teaching and learning practices;
  2. to share strategies in integrating information literacy into the curriculum;
  3. to share theory and best practice for integrated skills development to help students learn how to learn in the content areas;
  4. to discuss successful activities and methods to involve students in the synthesis of their skill development activities;
  5. to examine methods for developing collaborative and co-operative planning, teaching and evaluation processes with teachers as part of the instructional team.

Potential activities:

  1. identify websites and listservs related to information literacy broadly defined, such as: independent learning, life long learning, information skills, study and research skills, learning styles, flexible learning, library skills;
  2. discuss various models of information literacy;
  3. identify and present case studies of best practice of integrating information literacy skills into the curriculum;
  4. identify research that establishes impacts of information literacy based programs;
  5. establish research needs related to information literacy;
  6. identifies national information literacy agendas;
  7. establish a creative forum for the generation of teaching and learning ideas centring on information literacy;
  8. identify potential themes / people for conference presentations;
  9. provide examples of information literacy policies in schools.

See also Information Skills Resources on the Internet
See also Information Literacy: Recent Developments
See also Information Literacy Assessment: Some online tools and guides
See also the Information Literacy SIG's collection of links to Internet resources
See also Communications in Information Literacy.
See also The Journal of Information Literacy.
See also the Information Literacy Resources Directory created by the IL Section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).

Last Updated 28 February 2008 (KSB)