Acronym Glossary

courtesy of the Information Literacy Weblog

A

AAHE - American Association for Higher Education
AARL - Australian Academic and Research Libraries
AASL - American Association of School Librarians
ACIL - Advisory Committee on Information Literacy
ACRL - Association of College and Research Libraries
AGIK - Arbeitsgemeinschaft Informationskompetenz
AHRB - Arts & Humanities Research Board
AILA - American Indian Library Association
ALA - American Library Association
ALIA ILF - the Information Literacy Forum of the Australian Library and Information association
ALISE - Association of Library and Information Science Education
ANZIIL - Australian and New Zealand Institute for Information Literacy
APIN - Asia Pacific Information Network
ARL - Association of Research Libraries
ASIS - American Society for Information Science
ASLA - Australian School Library Association

B

BIG6 - Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz's Information Literacy Problem-Solving Process

C

CAIS - Canadian Association for Information Science
CARL - Canadian Association of Research Libraries
CAUL - Council of Australian University Librarian
CCLI - California Clearinghouse on Library Instruction
CKIII - Creating Knowledge III (conference)
CLA - Canadian Library association
CLA - Chinese Library Association
CILIP - Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals
CILIPS - Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals Scotland
CSG ILG - CILIP's Community Services Group Information Literacy Group

D

DORIL - Directory of Online Resources for Information Literacy

E

EDUCATE - End-user Courses in Information Access through Communication Technology
EDUCAUSE - consolidation of two prominent higher education technology associations (CAUSE and Educom)
EnIL - European Network on Information Literacy
ENSIL - European Network for School Libraries and Information Literacy
EEVL - Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (now EEVL: the Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing)

F

FORMIST - French national information literacy resource for instructors, both teachers and librarians

G

H

HE - Higher Education
HEA - Higher Education Academy
HERDSA - Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia
HIL - Health Information Literacy

I

IAIL - International Alliance for Information Literacy
IASL - International Association of School Librarianship
ICDL - International Centre for Distance Learning
IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations
ILHE - Information Literacy in Higher Education (conference)
IIL - Institute for Information Literacy
IIS - Institute of Information Scientists
IL - Information Literacy
ILT - Institute for Learning and Teaching

J

JSIC - Joint Information Systems Committee
JUBILEE - JISC User Behaviour in Information Seeking: Longitudinal Evaluation of EIS
JUSTEIS - JISC Usage Surveys: Trends in Electronic Information Services

K

L

LA - Library Association, UK precursor to CILIP
LIASA - Library and Information Association of South Africa
LIK - das Lernsystem Informationskompetenz
LIRT - Library Instruction Round Table
LLL - Life-long learning
LOEX - Library Orientation EXchange
LOOWI - Landelijk Overleg Onderwijs Wetenschappelijke Informatie
LTSN - Learning and Teaching Support Network

M

MILG - Manitoba Information Literacy Group
MLA - Manitoba Library Association
MLA - Medical Library Association
MLA - Music Library Association
MLA - Modern Languages Association
MOSAIC - Making Sense of Information in the Connected Age

N

NCLIS - National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
NELIG - New England Library Instruction Group
NETS - National Education Technology Standards
NFIL - National Forum on Information Literacy
NLM - National Library of Medicine
NORDINFOlit - scandinavian Information Literacy Group
NREN - National Research and Education Network

O

OLA - Ontario Library association
OSLA - Ontario School Library Association

P

PLA - Public Library Association

Q

QAA - Quality Assurance Agency
QUT ILF&S - Queensland University of Technology's Information Literacy Framework & Syllabus

R

RAE - Research and Assessment Exercise
RLIN - Research Libraries Information Network
RRA - Russian Reading Association, Pskov Department (promotes IL)

S

SCONE - Scottish Collections Network
SCONUL - Society of College, National & University Libraries
SEDA - Staff and Educational Development Association
SAILS - Standardized Assessment of Information Literacy Project
SKIL - Stanford's Key to Information Literacy
SLA - Special Libraries Association
SLA - School Library Association
SLAINTE - Scottish Libraries across the Internet
SLIC - Scottish Library and Information Council
SLIR - Scottish Library and Information Resources
SSA - Society of American Archivists

T

TFPL - UK information consultancy group
TILT - Texas Information Literacy Tutorial
TLT - Teaching Learning and Technology Group

U

UCISA TLIG - Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association - Teaching and Learning Information Group
UCILG - University of Calgary Information Literacy Group
UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
UNESCO IL - the information literacy section of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

V

W

WAAL - Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians
WILU - Workshop in Library Instruction (Conference)

X

Y

Z


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Maintained by Stuart Boon, courtesy of the Information Literacy Weblog.
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