Planning

• What is Information Literacy?
  • Information Literacy: An Overview: Robin Angeley and Jeff Purdue of Western Washington University.
  • Understanding Information Literacy: Barbara Humes, September 1999, Office of Educational Research National Institute on Postsecondary Education, Libraries, and Lifelong Learning.
  • Wikipedia: Article on Information Literacy.
  • Information Literacy Instruction in Higher Education: Trends and Issues. ERIC Digest.
  • Presidential Committee on Information Literacy: Final Report.
  • A Progress Report on Information Literacy: An Update on the American Library Association Presidential Committee on Information Literacy: Final Report.
  • Computer Literacy for Community College Students. ERIC Digest.

• Standards and Best Practices
• Objectives for Information Literacy Instruction: A Model Statement for Academic Librarians: ACRL.
• Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education: ACRL.
• project SAILS—Standardized Assessment of Library Skills: Kent State University - ACRL.
• Guidelines for Instruction Programs in Academic Libraries: ACRL.
• The Nine Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning: National Forum on Information Literacy.
• Library Instruction: Information Literacy Competencies, Lake-Sumter Community College.
• Dissolving Boundaries: Florida’s Community College Libraries and the Information Age: Report of the Resource Cooperation Standing Committee, May 18, 2000.

Implementing

• Curriculum
  • Information Literacy Curriculum: Curriculum from the American Library Association-AASL Position Paper on Information Literacy and Florida International University.
  • Teaching Information Literacy: The Big Six Skills Approach to Information Problem-Solving: Computer Skills for Information Problem-Solving: Learning and Teaching Technology in Context, ERIC Digest (March 1996), Michael B. Eisenberg and Doug Johnson, and the Instructional Technology Resource Center at the University of Central Florida.
  • Incorporating Library & Information Competencies into the Nursing Curriculum: Health Information Access for Rural Nurse Practitioners, University of Minnesota.
  • Information Literacy Curriculum: Florida International University.

• Collaborating with Faculty
  • Effective Assignments Using Library Resources: Objectives for faculty from UC Berkeley.
  • 50+ Ways to Reach your Faculty: Terri L. Holtze, University of Louisville.
  • Collaborating with Faculty, Collaborating with Librarians: ACRL.

• Syllabi /Handouts
  • Florida Community College Handout Exchange
  • Beginning Library and Information Systems Strategies: LIS 1001, University of North Florida.
  • Information Literacy Pre-Test: University of Washington.
  • LOEX Clearinghouse for Library Instruction: Educational clearinghouse for materials used in library instruction, Eastern Michigan University.

• Tutorials
• Florida Community College Handout Exchange
• Information Literacy Library Tutorials—Master List, Washington State
• Information Literacy Tutorial: Valencia Community College.
• Texas Information Literacy Tutorial (TILT): Introduces first-year students to research sources and skills, University of Texas System Digital Library.
• Merlin Web-based Learning: University of Massachusetts.

Assessing

• Program Assessment
  • Community College Assessment Categories & Performance Indicators: Bonnie Gratch-Lindauer, City College of San Francisco.
  • Comprehensive Assessment of Public Information Dissemination: Report from the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, June 2000 - March 2001.
  • A Progress Report on Information Literacy: An update on the ALA Presidential Committee on Information Literacy: Final Report, 1998, ACRL.
  • Indiana University Bloomington's "Assessment Plan for Information Literacy"
  • Information Competence Assessment: Web-Based Assessment of University Entry-Level Information Competency: A project funded by the California State University, Council on Library Resources and Information Technology, Information Competence Work Group.
  • Patrick Ragain's Assessment in Library and Information Literacy Instruction
  • UCLA Library's Information Competencies Survey
  • Washington's Inter-institutional "Assessment of Information and Technology Literacy"

• Resources
  • ILI-L: A discussion list sponsored by the Instruction Section of the Association of the Association of College and Research Libraries to promote the exchange of ideas on instruction and information literacy.
  • National Forum on Information Literacy: Supports, initiates, and monitors information literacy projects, American Library Association.
  • ACRL Institute for Information Literacy: Programs, initiatives, and related resources.
  • Directory of Online Resources for Information Literacy: University of South Florida.
  • Information Literacy on the WWW: Florida International University.

• Blogs and Discussion Lists
  • ILI-L: A discussion list sponsored by the Instruction Section of the Association of the Association of College and Research Libraries to promote the exchange of ideas on instruction and information literacy.
  • Information Literacy Weblog: United Kingdom
  • The Information Literacy Land of Confusion (Blog)

• Florida Post-Secondary Information Literacy Programs
  • University of West Florida
  • Palm Beach Community College
  • Manatee Community College Library Information Literacy site
  • Florida Community College of Jacksonville
  • Hillsborough Community College
  • Lake-Sumter Community College
  • St. Petersburg College
  • St. Johns River Community College
  • Valencia Community College
  • Florida Gulf Coast University