Information Literacy Resources

LIBRAS "Information Literacy 101" Event	Information Literacy Tutorials
Information Literacy Resources	Vendor Database Help Pages / Tutorials
Information Literacy Assessment	Professional Development
Disciplinary Information Literacy Integration	Information Literacy Discussion Lists

• Information Literacy 101 (Power Point, 305 KB)
• Discussion Group Reports (.pdf format, 64 KB)
• Follow-up information (courtesy of Chad Kahl):
  • Teaching to Different Learning Styles (.pdf format, 65 KB)
  • Sample Instruction Lab layouts (Power Point, 2.8 MB)

• ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) Information Literacy - http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/informationliteracy.htm
• AASL (American Association of School Librarians) Information Literacy - http://www.ala.org/aaslTemplate.cfm?Section=aaslinfolit
• Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. ALA, ACRL. 2000. - http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ACRL/Standards_and_Guidelines/Information_Literacy_Competency_Standards_for_Higher_Education.htm
• LOEX
  • Instruction Resources - http://www.emich.edu/public/loex/resources.html
  • Collections - http://www.emich.edu/public/loex/collections.html
    

   

Information Literacy Assessment:

• Bay Area Community Colleges Information Competency Assessment - http://topsy.org/ICAP/ICAProject.html
• California State University / Educational Testing Service's Information & Communication Technology Literacy - http://www.ets.org/ictliteracy/
• Project SAILS - http://sails.lms.kent.edu/index.php
  

• The California State University, Office of the Chancellor, Information Competence Initiative's Integrating Information Competence into the Disciplines bibliography - http://www.calstate.edu/LS/integrating_2004oct.doc
• California State University, Fullerton, Pollak Library's Information Competence Initiative - http://library.fullerton.edu/information_comp/CSUF%20Initiative.htm
• The Five Colleges of Ohio's Integrating Information Literacy into the Liberal Arts Curriculum - http://www.denison.edu/collaborations/ohio5/grant/examples/index.html
  

• Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. ALA, ACRL, 2000. - http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ACRL/Standards_and_Guidelines/Information_Literacy_Competency_Standards_for_Higher_Education.htm
• LIRT's Library Instruction Tutorials - http://www3.baylor.edu/LIRT/lirtproj.html
• LOEX Tutorials - http://www.emich.edu/public/loex/tutorials.html
• PRIMO: Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online Database - http://cooley.colgate.edu/dbs/acrlprimo/showrec.html
• Resources on How to Teach ILLINET Online - ILCSO End User Instruction Committee (EUIC) - http://office.ilcso.illinois.edu/Reports/iuageuic/train/home.htm
  
  

Vendor Database Help Pages/Tutorials:

• ArticleFirst / FirstSearch
  • Managing, Promoting and Teaching FirstSearch - http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/support/inyourlibrary/default.htm
  • FirstSearch documentation - http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/firstsearch/
  • Using FirstSearch - http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/firstsearch/
• EBSCOhost
  • tutorials - http://www.ebscoweb.com/CustSupport/Tutorials/Tutorials.asp
  • Basic Search Virtual Tour - http://ebsco.webex.com/webex/playback.php?FileName=http://www.ebscoweb.com/TrainDocs/HostTraining/Basic_Search_Academics.WRF
  • Advanced Search Virtual Tour - http://ebsco.webex.com/webex/playback.php?FileName=http://www.ebscoweb.com/TrainDocs/HostTraining/Advanced_Search_Guided_Style_Virtual_Tour.WRF
• LexisNexis Academic KnowledgeBase
  • Academic - http://support.lexis-nexis.com/academic/default.asp
  • Research 101 - http://support.lexis- nexis.com/academic/recordlist.asp?ArticleType=Research101
• OVID
  • Training and Help - http://www.ovid.com/site/help/index.jsp?top=28
• Proquest
  • Training Resource Center, Resources for Training - http://training.proquest.com/trc/training/index.htm
    

• ACRL Institute for Information Literacy - Immersion - http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/professactivity/iil/immersion/immersionprograms.htm
• ACRL Professional Development Events - http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlevents/upcomingevents/upcomingevents.htm
• ACRL Preconferences at ALA - http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2005a/precons.pdf
• LOEX Conferences http://www.emich.edu/public/loex/conferences.html
• INFORMATION LITERACY SUMMIT 2005 - "Learning from Experience:" registration form (Adobe .pdf format)

• ILLINOISINFOLIT-L list (Illinois efforts in information literacy)
  Send "SUBSCRIBE ILLINOISINFOLIT-L" command to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ILSTU.EDU.
• ILI-L (Information Literacy Instruction Listserv)
  Send "SUBSCRIBE ILI-L [your name]" command to listproc@ala.org
• COLLIB-L (College Libraries Section
  Send "SUBSCRIBE COLLIB-L [your name]" command to listproc@ala.org
• LIBRAS members only - Reference/Instruction SIG list
  Send "SUBSCRIBE RIS-L [your name]" command to Majordomo@wheaton.edu