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Information Literacy Standards

Delivery and Design Face to Face Partnerships Tutorials E-struction

Assessment

Some Statistics

Every 24 hours, approximately 4.3 million new pages are added to the World Wide Web.

About 83% of Web sites contain commercial content

6% contain scientific or educational content The average life span of a Web page is

about 44 days.

Falling Through the Net, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 1999

Information Divide

http://www.pbs.org/digitaldivide/themes.html

Focus on computers “misses the mark”.Shirley, Saundra L. OITP Policy Brief: Libraries and the Digital Divide.

ALA, October 2000.

“Libraries have an educational role in fostering an information literate society with the skills necessary to thrive.”

Office of Information Technology Policy. Draft Principles for the Networked World. ALA, 2001.

The Information Literate Individual:

Determines extent and type of information needed.

Accesses information efficiently, effectively. Evaluates sources and information critically. Incorporates information into knowledge base. Uses information to accomplish a purpose. Understands economic, moral, legal, ethical

issues surrounding the use of information.Association of College and Research Libraries, July 2000

The Flow of Information

How information resources develop over time…

http://www.denison.edu/ohio5/infolit/a1flow/day.htm

Delivery methods: learning styles,

assessment, time???

Information Literacy

Partnerships Higher education and school libraries

sharing instruction techniques, resource information and recruitment.

http://www.csusm.edu/acrl/il/ilacrl/taskforce.html

Potential partners: business, industry, local government, and health care providers.

Web-page Tutorials

http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/

http://www.denison.edu/ohio5/infolit/

http://www.oslis.k12.or.us/secondary.html

E-struction

An email-based course designed to increase library outreach and provide information literacy instruction to faculty and students.

Each lesson will introduce a library resource and will provide the participants with information on content, access and search strategies for the product.

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/louis/

Model Approach

Interactive Fully integrated Incorporates assessment

http://www.library.arizona.edu/rio

Assessment

Pretest. Modular quizzes. E-mail responses. Faculty and student surveys.

http://www.csusm.edu/acrl/il/index.html

http://www.ala.org/aasl/ip_implementation.html