Report - The Survey of American College Students: Student Evaluation of Information Literacy (not free)

NEW! Screencasting for Libraries

NEW! Welcome to the Multimedia for Information Literacy Wiki!
The concept behind this wiki is to help consolidate a variety of multimedia resources that will assist the teaching of information literacy.
In this wiki you will find links to videos, online tutorials, comic strips, info lit blogs, handouts and more! If it is related to information literacy and might help engage a visual or auditory learner, then it belongs here! The site is arranged by topic, rather than by medium, so if you are teaching a session about copyright, on that page you will find videos, handouts, etc. It is not meant to be comprehensive, but rather the best of what is freely available on the web.

NEW!
What Today’s College Students Say about Conducting Research in the Digital Age - Preliminary Research Findings
Project Information Literacy - Alison J. Head and Mike Eisenberg


Fifty Ways to Love Your Library

Research Process Models Compaired

Information Literacy Resources	Joyce Valenza's Home Page	Literacy Forum ...a community of people interested in the use of technology to improve literacy throughout the world.
Excellent Course on Searching in a Web 2.0 world	TeacherLibrarianWiki	NEW! NAIS Professional Practice Guidelines

"Nowadays every citizen needs to be information literate, a 21st-century form of literacy built upon the four fundamental pillars of education which constitute the very foundations of society. These are learning to know, to do, to be and to live together."
-- from Media Education, a UNESCO publication: 2006 (link in Multimedia category of this wiki)


OPAL - Online Programming for All Libraries
OPAL is an international collaborative effort by libraries of all types to provide web-based programs and training for library users and library staff members.


Reference in the Age of Communication






The Future of College Libraries - podcast by TechTherapy
All things to all people: Information Commons: Academic space, Intellectual space, social space, all needs are met, mind/body/spirit. The ultimate in flexibility.


Powerful Libraries Make Powerful Learners - Ohio study links collaborative Librarians and strong programs with student achievement

ALA's page for IL:
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/informationliteracy.c
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ACRL Institute for Information Literacy:
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/professactivity/iil/w
elcome.cfm

ACRL Instruction Section:
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/aboutacrl/acrlsections/instruction/homepage.
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Open WorldCat search on IL:
http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=su%3Ainformation+literacy&qt=advanced

WebTools4U2Use is a wiki collaboratively created by 600+ school librarians.
http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/About+This+Wiki

21st Century Information Fluency Project
created by the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Quote of the Day: New Knowledge

By Will Richardson on schools

From “Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace” (600+ page .pdf) comes this passage by Robert Steele in his essay “Creating a Smart Nation:” Published knowledge is old knowledge: The art of intelligence in the 21st Century will be less concerned with integrating old knowledge and more concerned with using published knowledge as a path to exactly the right source or sources that can create new knowledege tailored to a new situation, in real time.”

Tutorial Sharing: ANTS (ANimated Tutorial Sharing) is striving to create a One-Stop Shopping site that librarians could use to find a critical mass of current information literacy tutorials - tutorials that no one library could conceivably create -- and update --on their own. The wiki describing this project is here on wetpaint: http://ants.wetpaint.com/

There are three sites that contain the tutorials: DSpace & Screencast.com site
and LIONS

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What students don't do well	What they do instead
Turn a question into a query	Rush ahead toward an answer, grabbing some of the criteria or the whole statement
Choose the right database	Enter words or phrases into Google
Recognize information when they find it	Rush past important information and clues, continue to browse
Find better keywords	Stick with their original words and browse
Verify the credibility of information	Accept what they find at face value, hoping somewhere in the information there is an answer

Library Success: Best Practices Wiki

Newsflash!
American Association of School Librarians (AASL)

University of Alberta Award Winning Information Literacy Film

Top ACRL Information Literacy Sites


Librarian 2.0 Manifesto (4 minute video) click below to watch)
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Great Quotes for Libraries:

"Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant."
-Mitchell Kapor in Nation, Cooke, Kevin, and Dan Lehrer.. "The Whole World Is Talking." Nation 257.2 (12 July 1993): 60-64.


A Paradigm Shift for School Libraries

by Kathleen Johnson, Seattle Academy

School Libraries are undergoing major restructuring as they align and respond to changes brought about by the Information Age. The Information Age has fundamentally changed the nature of information and knowledge creation in some of the following ways.

• Information is expanding at a rapid rate because digital technologies have made publishing more affordable;
• These large amounts of information require the user to hone the all important skills of filtering, analysis and synthesis;
• This explosion of information is creating tremendous fragmentation;
• Information reliability can be lower for internet resources because the traditional editorial function is often lacking;
• The technology of hyper-linking allows users to define their own pathways of meaning through information as opposed to having that path pre-defined (as in the typical linear Table of Contents).
• Technology skills are fundamental to information access and processing.
• New technologies including social networking, tagging, wikis and blogs (also know as Web 2.0) are changing the way knowledge is created and shared.

The American Library Association’s Information Literacy Standards:

Sorting through large amounts of information requires discrimination. Promoting student learning of information-seeking, evaluating and processing skills becomes an important goal of the “21st Century shifted” school library program.

1. Browse + Search + Ask = Find article