VIVA Outreach

Publicity & Promotional Materials

This list of information literacy resources was prepared for  the VIVA Across the Curriculum Forum which was held at the College of William and Mary on July 27, 2001.

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Resources on Information Literacy
VIVA Across the Curriculum Forum
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
July 27, 2001

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State Initiatives

California
Information Competence  
Dr. Susan C. Curzon, California State University, Northridge
<http://library.csun.edu/susan.curzon/infocmp.html>    

Colorado
Information Literacy (LIB 15)
Fort Lewis College, Durango
<http://library.fortlewis.edu/~instruct/lib150/syllabus.html>

Florida
Directory of Online Resources for Information Literacy
Drew Smith, University of South Florida, School of Library and Information Science
<http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/il/>

Information Literacy at Florida International University  
<http://www.fiu.edu/~library/ili/index.html>

Iowa  
Library Explorer  
University of Iowa  
<http://explorer.lib.uiowa.edu/p000.html>

Minnesota  
Information Literacy Tutorial  
Minneapolis Community & Technical College, Thomas W. Eland
<formerly available at http://www.mctc.mnscu.edu/Library/tutorials/infolit/index.html>

New York  
A Course in Information Literacy  
Ulster County Community College  
<formerly available at http://itec.suny.edu/ucclib111/home.htm>

SUNY Information Literacy Initiative  
State University of New York  
<http://www.sunyconnect.suny.edu/ili/iliover.htm>

Ohio  
Integrating Information Literacy into the Liberal Arts Curriculum  
Five Colleges of Ohio, a consortium founded with the support of the Mellon Foundation  
<http://www.denison.edu/ohio5/grant/>

Texas  
TILT - Texas Information Literacy Tutorial  
University of Texas at Austin  
<http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu>

Virginia  
"An Online Competency Test for Information Literacy" by Lynn Cameron and Rebecca Feind, presented March 16 at ACRL 2001  
<http://www.lib.jmu.edu/staffweb/ps/instruction/>

Washington  
Information Literacy Assessment Group  
Public, Four-Year Institutions of Washington State  
<http://depts.washington.edu/infolitr/index.html>

UWired  
University of Washington, collaboration among Undergraduate Education, Computing & Communications, University Libraries, and University Extension  
<formerly available at http://www.washington.edu/uwired/about/index.html>

  National Initiatives

Information Literacy  
ACRL, ALA  
<formerly available at http://www.ala.org/acrl/infolit.html>

Immersion Program
<formerly available at http://www.ala.org/acrl/nili/immersion.html>

LOEX Clearinghouse for Library Instruction  
<http://www.emich.edu/public/loex/loex.html>

National Forum on Information Literacy 
Created 1990 in response to ALA's Presidential Committee on   Information Literacy  
<http://www.infolit.org/>

Objectives for Information Literacy Instruction: A Model Statement for Academic Librarians  
Approved by the ACRL Board, January 2001  
<formerly available at http://www.ala.org/acrl/guides/objinfolit.html>

 

International Initiatives

 

Singapore
"A study of undergraduate information literacy and skills" by Mark Hepworth at the IFLA Conference, 1999.  
<http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla65/papers/107-124e.htm>

South Africa  
"Infolit: a South African initiative to promote information literacy" by Cathy-Mae Karelse.  
<http://ifla.org/IV/ifla62/62-karc.htm>