Hi! I intend to add just a few key links to this Squidoo page for the moment, all of them related to information literacy. If you are wondering what information literacy is, my friend Bill Johnston and I developed this definition....
"Information literacy is the adoption of appropriate information behaviour to obtain, through whatever channel or medium, information well fitted to information needs, together with a critical awareness of the importance of wise and ethical use of information in society"I think this page will probably be of most interest to educators and librarians who already have an interest in information literacy. But if it is useful to anyone else too, that will be really good!
The photo is of a bowl of cherries from my garden, July 2006.
Information Literacy Links
- Information Literacy Weblog
- This is the weblog that I maintain with help from Stuart Boon at Strathclyde University. It's got news about information literacy resources and events, reports from conferences I go to, and anything else information literacy-related that catches our eye. Plus photos from me, mostly of flowers, trees and landscapes...
- Information Literacy website
- This is a British portal to information literacy material and links that was launched in March 2006.
- International Information Literacy Resources Directory
- This is an international project led by Jesus Lau, and with some sponsorship from IFLA. It has information on resources from different parts of the world, and a draft report about activities in different parts of the world.
- Information Literacy bibliography
- This is maintained by Ola Pilerot who at the University of Skövde
Selected books on Amazon
Teaching Information Skills: Theory And Practice
A practical book written by two librarians in the UK.
Amazon Price: $99.95 (as of 01/01/2010) 
Information Literacy: A Review of the Research : A Guide for Practitioners and Researchers
This has short sections on many different models and concepts of information literacy.
Amazon Price: (as of 01/01/2010)
Information Literacy Guestbook
Guestbook for comments and suggestions
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- access2 access2 Jul 26, 2006 @ 11:44 am
- Good luck with this. Critical thinking is soo important in this age of information overload, and it is a skill that recieves little emphasis here in the States when it isn't frankly dicouraged.
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