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

Information Literacy Series Videos

In a society dependent on information, it is important to be able to find, evaluate and use information.
Bob Baker helps to guide us in this process. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnfmzIHzTds

Social Bookmarking Site

My stacks include Information Literacy, Search Engines, Innovators in Computing, Technology News, Instructional Technology, and Computers In Societyhttp://www.delicious.com/stacks/beverlyannsharon

Efficient Web Searches and Information Literacy

                We satisfy our decision making needs with information that comes from a variety of sources.  The most popular way to gather information at this time is the Internet and for a variety of reasons: Education, Business and Industry, Entertainment,  Health Care, Government, Law and Politics.   In our discussion of Web Searches the one thing all of us agree on is that we want to find data and information in a timely manner and that it is credible.  

                There are many search engines with a vast amount of pages.  Google alone has 1.5 billion pages.  We also discovered there are several ways to do efficient searches.  Some of the search methods include:  identifying key words, Boolean: and, or, and not; Implied Boolean: plus and minus; phrase searching, title searching, and host searching (Source:  2004 Donna Flanagan, and the African Journal for the Study of Educational Issues).

                 Information Literacy skills are the ability to find, evaluate, use and share information. (http://www.webs.uidaho.edu/info_literacy/) These abilities will relieve some of the frustration of sifting through the vast amounts of information on the World Wide Web.   Keeping these skills in mind changes the way we look at things.  We will be employing best practices for the use and distribution of information.

These skills should be taught to ensure quality work from our students.