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the big blue project is surveying present practice in Information Skills Training for students in Higher and Post- 16 Education.

The project will establish a blueprint for the future, ensuring a coherent approach to the development of an information literate student population in the UK.

 

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UK

Rest of World

 

Australian websites

CAUL Council of Australian University Libraries Information Literacy Standards
Griffith University Grifith University, Australia, Information Literacy Strategic Plan
Univesity of Wollongong University Of Wollongong, Australia, Information Literacies
ANZIL Australian and New Zealand Institute for Information Literacy
INFOLIT Australian Library Association Special Interest Group for Information Literacy
Pilot Online Information Literacy Tutorials from Queensland University of Technology

US websites

IIL American Library Association Information Literacy Institute
ACRL ALA Presidential Report on Information Literacy
ALA IQ Test The Information Literacy IQ (Institutional Quotient) Test
ACRL ACRL Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education

National Forum on Information Literacy

National Forum on Infomration Literacy
DORIL Directory of Information Literacy (DORIL)
ACRL American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries Information Literacy page
ACRL ALA Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education
Literacies Pacific Bell/ UCLA Inititative for 21st century Literacies
Topsy N. Smalley Sabbatical project looking at information literacy in the workplace
Indiana University Paper on implementing an assessment plan for information literacy
WLMA Washington Library Media Association Online, Information Literacy Site
FNO 'From Now On (The Education Technology Journal)'- online journal: 'Information Skills Rating Scale'.
NC Public Schools North Carolina Public Schools Information Skills Curriculum
AASL

American Association of School Librarians Position Paper on Information Literacy

UK websites

JCALT The JISC Comittee on Awareness, Liaison and Training
Information Literacy Place Bill Johnson and Sheila Webber's Information Literacy Home Page
Project Verity Project Verity: Virtual and Electronic Resources for Information Skills Training for Young People: a New Online Service for Young People
Learning and Skills Online Links to learning skills resources and sites
Learning and Skills Council Learning and Skills Council UK Post-16 education parent body
SCONUL SCONUL Position Paper on Information Skills in Higher Education
University of Wolverhampton An assessment of the impact of Information Skills training on student learning

Rest of World websites

ACOL

Canadian Advisory Committee for Online Learning
INFOLIT South Africa South African Information Literacy website
Web Bibliography for IS A bibliography of free web-based resources on Information Literacy, from Skövde University Library in Sweden

 

 

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the big blue is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee and managed jointly by
Manchester Metropolitan University Library and Leeds University Library

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the big blue is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee and managed jointly by
Manchester Metropolitan University Library and Leeds University Library