courtesy of the Information Literacy Weblog
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
BIG6
- Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz's Information Literacy Problem-Solving Process
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
DORIL
- Directory of Online Resources for Information Literacy
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)
FORMIST
- French national information literacy resource for instructors, both teachers and librarians
HE
- Higher Education
HEA
- Higher Education Academy
HERDSA
- Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia
HIL
- Health Information Literacy
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
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
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
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
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
OLA
- Ontario Library association
OSLA
- Ontario School Library Association
PLA
- Public Library Association
QAA
- Quality Assurance Agency
QUT ILF&S
- Queensland University of Technology's Information Literacy Framework & Syllabus
RAE
- Research and Assessment Exercise
RLIN
- Research Libraries Information Network
RRA
- Russian Reading Association, Pskov Department (promotes IL)
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
TFPL
- UK information consultancy group
TILT
- Texas Information Literacy Tutorial
TLT
- Teaching Learning and Technology Group
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
WAAL
- Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians
WILU
- Workshop in Library Instruction (Conference)
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Maintained by Stuart Boon, courtesy of the Information Literacy Weblog.
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