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Information Literacy Websites

  • From Now On: Information Literacy articles
    http://www.fno.org/fnoindex.aspl
    From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal, an online journal, is authored by Jamie McKenzie. Jamie was Director of Libraries, Media and Technology for the Bellingham, Washington schools before devoting himself full-time to speaking and writing. He is an expert in the areas of information literacy and using technology to enhance instruction.
  • The Big Six
    http://www.big6.com/
    The Big 6 is the research model that has been used in IPSD 204 for the past few years. This site has information on the model, information literacy, as well as lesson plans incorporating the model.
  • Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education
    http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ACRL/Standards_
    and_Guidelines/Information_Literacy_Competency_Standards_
    for_Higher_Education.htm
    This document about information literacy was created by the American Library Association. There is a definition, as well as some basic information. The national standards are also included.
  • National Forum on Information Literacy
    http://www.infolit.org/
    The National Forum on Information Literacy is a group of education, library and business leaders that came together in response to the American Library Association's Presidential Committee on Information Literacy. The site includes reports, speeches, definitions, lists of publications, as well as links to other sites on information literacy.
  • Directory of Online Resources for Information Literacy
    http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/il/
    Created by an instructor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Florida, this site included links to other web resources on information literacy.
  • School-Libraries.org: Information Literacy and Library Skills Resources
    http://www.school-libraries.org/resources/literacy.html
  • The WWW Virtual Library: Information Literacy
    http://goose.ycp.edu/~gszczyrb/vlib/
  • Information Literacy on the World Wide Web
    http://www.fiu.edu/~library/ili/iliweb.html
    The three sites above are directories of links to other websites about information literacy.
  • Understanding Information Literacy
    http://www.ed.gov/pubs/UnderLit/
    This document was created in September 1999 by Barbara Humes of the Office of Educational Research, National Institute on Postsecondary Education, Libraries, and Lifelong Learning. The document describes information literacy and the implications of it for teaching and learning.
  • Information Literacy: ERIC Digest
    http://www.ericfacility.net/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed427777.html
    This ERIC Digest is a very brief explanation of information literacy.
  • Information Literacy and You tutorial
    http://www.libraries.psu.edu/crsweb/infolit/andyou/infoyou.htm
    This tutorial is from the University Libraries at Pennsylvania State University. The tutorial takes you through the steps of research and information literacy.
  • University of Wisconsin - Parkside Library: Information Literacy Tutorial
    https://uwp.courses.wisc.edu/public/Infolit3/index.aspl
    Another tutorial on information literacy. You can log in to try it by using the word guest as both the user name and password. Each section of the tutorial is followed by a quiz.
  • Building Information Literacy
    http://www.edu.pe.ca/bil/bil.asp?ch0.s1.gdtx
  • Five Colleges of Ohio: Information Literacy Tutorial
    http://www.denison.edu/ohio5/infolit/
  • Learn Information Literacy Initiative
    http://www.tafe.sa.edu.au/lili/
    Here are three more information literacy tutorials: one from the Prince Edward Islands Schools in Canada, one from a consortium of Ohio universities, and one from the government of South Australia.
  • The Information Literacy Place
    http://dis.shef.ac.uk/literacy/
    This site includes information, annotated bibliographies of articles and publications, and links to websites on information literacy.

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