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Information Literacy in schools |
This page highlights some projects and resources concerned with information literacy in schools. Some links are duplicated from other parts of the site (hopefully) for your convenience, since at the moment there isn't a site search function.
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- American Association of School Librarians and Association for Educational Communications and Technology. (1998)Information Power. Chicago: American Library Association.
There are excerpts from Information Power, a resource guide and a list of publications related to these standards on the AASL information power website. A related document is:Farmer, Lesley. (2001) Information literacy: a whole school reform approach in: 67th IFLA Council and General Conference: August 16-25, 2001: Proceedings. The Hague: IFLA.
- Australian School Library Association. (1993) Policy statement: information literacy. CoSLA.
http://www.cosla.asn.au/infosk.html
- Carr, J. (1998) Information Literacy and Teacher Education ERIC (ERIC Digest; ED424231)
http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed424231.html
- Koch, M. (2001) Information literacy: where do we go from here? Technos quarterly 10 (1)
Summarises some approaches by US states and highlights issues to do with assessment of information literacy.
http://www.technos.net/journal/volume10/1koch.htm
- Langford, L. (1998) Information literacy: a clarification. From Now On, September.
http://www.fno.org/sept98/clarify.html
- Library Association. (2000) Primary school library guidelines. London: Library Association.
Includes section on information literacy.
http://www.la-hq.org.uk/directory/prof_issues/primary.pdf
- Moore, P. (1997) Teaching information problem solving in primary schools: an information literacy survey. In: 63rd IFLA General Conference - Conference Programme and Proceedings - August 31- September 5, 1997
The Hague: IFLA.
A survey of teachers in New Zealand.
http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla63/63moop.htm
- Ontario School Library Association. (1999)Information Studies: Kindergarten to grade 12 Toronto: Ontario School Library Association
A framework for learning information literacy at each level at school, including suggested achievement levels and ways in which information literacy education could be linked into other subjects in the curriculum. Three key areas are identified: inquiry and research; information technologies; information society.
http://www.accessola.org/action/positions/info_studies/
- School Libraries worldwide, 7 (1). Whole issue. This entire issue of the journal of the International association of School Librarianship is devoted to information literacy. there are abstracts only on this web page.
http://www.iasl-slo.org/slwjan01.html
- The Schoolquarterly.com (2001) The information literacy archive Aukland: Schoolquarterly.com
http://www.theschoolquarterly.com/info_lit_archive/defn_discussion/92_gg_lftf.htm
Contact Sheila Webber (s.webber@sheffield.ac.uk) with any comments
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