Information Literacy  Tags: il infolit teaching instruction  

Obama declares October National Information Literacy Month

IL Committee Minutes for May

Newsletter from IL section of IFLA

Find out what's going on and communicate with other librarians involved in instruction through the Information Literacy Instruction Discussion List (ILI-L) from ALA.

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Information Literacy is the ability to recognize when information is needed and to locate, evaluate and use information effectively.

All graduating students should have a set of skills based on the 5 standards developed by the Association of College and Research Libraries which describe the competencies or abilities.

• Dalhousie brochure (pdf 224KB)

• Short version of ACRL Standards (pdf 14KB)

• Full version from Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)

• Step-by-step explanation (ACRL)

• Discipline-specific Standards

• Tip Sheet for Developing Subject-Specific Information Literacy Standards