Institute for Information Literacy

The Institute sponsors immersion programs to provide training and education to librarians, offers programs for institutions and communities, and provides links to information literacy web sources.

National Forum on Information Literacy

The National Forum was created in 1990 to support information literacy, foster the development of guidelines, and work to facilitate the integration of information literacy into teaching.

Institutional Strategies: Best Practices

At the Institute for Information Literacy, this page outlines a project to provide guidelines and assessment strategies for institutions implementing information literacy programs.

Integrating Information Into the Curriculum

This site provides the Information Literacy IQ test, a means to assess how far your institution has gone on its information literacy program. Also provides a list of core information literacy goals for undergraduates.

Directory of Online Resources for Information Literacy

The directory provides links to bibliographies and webographies, conferences, organizations, projects, programs, papers, tutorials, etc. A wealth of resources is found here.

Information Literacy: The Key Competency for the 21st Century

The site presents the text of a paper which covers the whole gamut of information literacy topics: why we need to be information literate, what has been done about it, and what can be done about it.

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