There are a vast number of Information Literacy Internet Links. This is not an exhaustive list, but rather an attempt to feature some very good links that will provide administrators, teachers, students, and parents a starting point for further investigation.
American
Library Association Final Report
The ALA
Presidential Committee on Information Literacy first issued the Final Report
in 1989. It defined four components of information literacy: the ability to
recognize when information is needed and to locate, evaluate and use effectively
the needed information.
Florida International
University Libraries- Information Literacy on the WWW
This is an excellent site that details information literacy using
the following categories: General Sites - Competencies, Standards and Outcomes
- Professional Associations -Accreditation - Programs in Colleges and Universities
- Paper, Presentations, and Research.
Information
Power: the Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning
In 1998 the American Association of School Libraries and the Association
of Educational Communications and Technology published Information Literacy
Standards for Student Learning. These standards detail competencies for students
in K-12. These standards have since been approved by The Association of College
and Research Library (ACRL) Board on January 18, 2000.
National Forum on Information
Literacy
The National Forum on Information Literacy was created in 1990
as a response to the recommendations of the American Library Association's Presidential
Committee on Information Literacy. These leaders believe that no other change
in American society has offered greater challenges than the emergence of the
Information Age. The Forum pursues activities in four primary areas. Through
its member organizations, the Forum examines the role of information in our
lives and integrates information literacy into their programs. It also supports,
initiates, and monitors information literacy projects both in the United States
and abroad. NFIL actively encourages the creation and adoption of information
literacy guidelines by such regulatory bodies as State Departments of Education,
Commissions on Higher Education, and Academic Governing Boards. And finally,
it works with teacher education programs to insure that new teachers are able
to incorporate information literacy into their teaching.
District
207 Information Literacy web page originally created by K. Wolfe, Maine East,
and R. Retrum, Maine South.
New content and formatting, N. Mellendorf, Maine South High School, April 2006.