Information Literacy Links

Information Literacy sources of information

A brief list of a few key sites; many more can be found on the Information Literacy Website.

The Information Literacy Website
UK Information Literacy Website:
http://www.informationliteracy.org.uk/

The Information Literacy Place.
Produced by Sheila Webber and Bill Johnston:
http://dis.shef.ac.uk/literacy/default.htm

Information Literacy Weblog.
Produced by Sheila Webber, Bill Johnston and Stuart Boon:
http://ciquest.shef.ac.uk/infolit/

Information Literacy Resources Directory
IFLA/UNESCO website which includes a State of the Art report on information literacy in different countries http://www.infolitglobal.info/

Information Literacy Gateway.
UK based, sponsored by LTSN-ICS and SWAPltsn:
http://www.ilit.org/

Information Literacy Sources of Information.
Skövde University Library:
http://www.his.se/bib/enginfolit.htm

Information Literacy on the WWW.
Florida State University:
http://www.fiu.edu/~library/ili/iliweb.html

Directory of Online Resources for Information Literacy.
Produced by Mark Dibble, University of South Florida:
http://www.lib.usf.edu/ref/doril/

UNESCO: Towards Information Literacy Indicators

includes "a definition of information literacy; a model that links information literacy with other adult competences, such as ICT skills; and a description of information literacy standards in education"

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001587/158723e.pdf"

 

Information Literacy Organisations

ANZIIL - Australian and New Zealand Institute for Information Literacy
http://www.anziil.org/index.htm

Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy pages.
Part of the American Library Association (ALA):
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/informationliteracy.htm

Cilip CSG Information Literacy Group
A Community Services Group
http://www.cilip.org.uk/groups/csg/csg_ilg/index.html

National Forum on Information Literacy (NFIL):
http://www.infolit.org/index.html

UNESCO Information Literacy
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation:
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=15886&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.
International Information Literacy Conference and Meetings:
http://www.nclis.gov/libinter/infolitconf&meet/infolitconf&meet.html

updated July 2007 by Moira Bent Moira.Bent@ncl.ac.uk.