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- American
Association of College and Research Libraries Information Literacy Website
- ACRL's Information Literacy Advisory Committee’s gateway to
resources on information literacy. Rich resource with links to standards
and guidelines, resources and ideas and professional practice.
- Enabling
Library and Information Skills for Everyone (ELISE)
- ELISEand LILT are online tutorials for students at University of New
South Wales, Australia. There is a basic tutorial for undergraduates
and a more advanced tutorial designed for postgraduates as well as a
blog
approach to information literacy.
- Improving
Staff i-Skills: An Introductory Guide
- Information skills, or i-skills, are defined as: the ability to identify,
assess, retrieve, evaluate, adapt, organise and communicate information
within an iterative context of review and reflection. Aimed at adult
learners, this JISC publication contains clear diagrams, detailed definitions
and links for further information.
- 21st Century Information
Fluency Project
- Digital Information Literacy Model from the Illinois Mathematics and
Science Academy. Digital Information Fluency (DIF) is the ability to
find, evaluate and use digital information effectively, efficiently
and ethically. Wizard tips for evaluation and citations, lesson plans,
tutorial and blog. Great resource.
- Information
Literacy Skills
- Scottish Library and Information Council. Aimed at post-16 learners,
there are 30 generic learning objects covering the effective use of
information sources. The content supports a Scottish Qualifications
Authority award in Information literacy.
- Australian
and New Zealand Information Literacy Framework [PDF
format]
- Second edition of the original 2001 Standards. Useful articles on
principles and practice.
- Learning
and Teaching Scotland: Information Literacy
- Online resource for use with older pupils. Also includes study skills.
- Information
Literacy Toolkit
- The Higher Education Academy –Information and Computing Sciences
– John Colvin & Dr. Judith Keene, University College Worcester.
The toolkit contains materials and links intended for institutions that
wish to develop their own customised programme for promoting computing
student information retrieval and evaluation skills. Lesson plans, presentations,
group exercises and handouts are included.
- Reuseable
Learning Objects: Developing a Module on Information Literacy
- This material was created as part of the LIMES
project. The learning objects are designed to offer guidance to
tutors interested in developing a module on Information Literacy (IL).
Suggested aims and learning outcomes are provided that can be adapted
to suit the needs of the host university course. Further guidance is
given on suggested content, use of assignments, exercises and workshops.
- Internet
Detective
- A free online tutorial to support the development of Internet research
skills for students in further and higher education in the UK.
- Intute: Virtual
Training Suite
- A free online service created by a network of UK universities and
partners. It provides free Internet tutorials to help you learn how
to get the best from the Web for your education and research within
65 subject contexts. Written by qualified tutors, lecturers and librarians
from across the UK.
- Scottish
Information Literacy Project
- Glasgow Caledonian University’s research project exploring
the transferability of information skills between secondary and tertiary
education in Scotland and working towards an information literacy framework,
relevant within tertiary education and the world of work.
- Society
of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL): The Seven Pillars
of Information Literacy Model
- This model was designed to be a practical working model to facilitate
further development of students' skills. The 7 pillars are: recognise
information need; distinguish ways of addressing the gap; construct
strategies for locating; locate and access; compare and evaluate; organise,
apply and communicate; and synthesise and create.
- 21st
century literacies
- AT&T Knowledge Ventures: Lessons, Webquests, Information for Teachers
and Librarians. Supporting the C21st literacies framework, the website
focuses on 4 separate literacies – information, media, multicultural
and visual literacies. A rich resource full of ideas and practical assistance.
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