Information Literacy Worldwide

http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/news/overview_info_lit_resources.pdf

College and Resource Library News

http://crln.acrl.org/content/71/10/534.full

The International Conference on Information Literacy will be held in Savannah, Georgia on August 23-24 2013 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel .http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/infolit.html

Information Literacy at NC A & T State University

North Carolina A & T State University has six core standards for Information Literacy:
I. Define the research problem
II. Construct effective search strategies
III. Locate and retrieve information
IV. Evaluate information
V. Organize, synthesize and communicate information
VI. Apply principles consistent with ethical and legal uses
Details may be found at this link:
http://www.library.ncat.edu/resources/infolit.html

Elementary School

Information Literacy Skills are taught at the elementary school level. For example, Clayton County Public schools in Jonesboro, Georgia has a checklist of behaviors required through grades K-5 http://www.clayton.k12.ga.us/departments/instruction/mediaservices/elementaryschool.asp

New Publication

Librarians lead the way for information literacy.  Library instruction is included in our computer classes.  We receive instruction on research methods, databases, and equally important instruction on documenting our sources.  Additional instruction is given to students where they have to create a short research paper and site sources using the MLA (Modern Language Association) format.   At this link you will see a video as it relates to Information Literacy and Higher Education.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYtES8BTL_A