ACTUAL INFORMATION LITERACY ROUNDTABLE
A roundtable discussion of Information Literacy practice within Higher Education institutions in the ACT is held 4 times per year. More Information
***NEW** Journal of eLiteracy (JeLit)
JeLit is an online open-access peer reviewer journal focusing on eLiteracy and related issues. Volume 1, issue 1 can be accessed at http://www.jelit.org/. Please think about whether you might be interested in offering a contribution to JeLit. You can find the themes of JeLit and the instructions for submitting papers and other content items on the JeLit website at http://www.jelit.org/submissions.html.If you have any queries regarding JeLit please get in touch. Any comments regarding JeLit would be welcome as we are keen that JeLit should make a positive
contribution in debates on eLiteracy and related issues.Volum 1, issue 2 will be appearing in December.
With best wishes,Allan Martin, Editor, JeLit
EdNa Online
Top 100 Information Literacy links from EdNA Online: mostly Australian from Higher Education and other educational groups.
Australian and New Zealand Institute for Information Literacy (ANZIIL)
Includes professional development resources, teaching & learning resources, conferences and information on research funding and scholarships.
Australian Library and Information Association
Includes conferences, information literacy kit (downloadable) and other resources.
(I C T) L i t e r a c y R e s o u r c e s
This website represents a global partnership among leading business, education, and public policy stakeholders to promote universal ICT Digital Literacy.
The ACRL/IS Emerging Technologies in Instruction Committee reviewed 30 projects submitted during the winter round of reviews for the Internet Education Project (IEP), a database of exemplary online instruction materials. Eleven of those sites met the selection criteria
for inclusion into the IEP database. Congratulations to the following sites:
Research Skills and Information Literacy Tutorials
DataLine BG by Catherine Cardwell and Colleen Boff, Bowling Green State University
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/infosrv/lue/dataline.html
LILI, LEARN Information Literacy Initiative by Susan Brunner and Stephen Barnett, Technical and Further Education (TAFE) Institutes in South Australia
http://www.tafe.sa.edu.au/lili/
OASIS - Online Advancement of Student Information Skills by J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University
http://oasis.sfsu.edu
The Plagiarism Court: You Be the Judge by Ramona Islam, Fairfield University
http://library2.fairfield.edu/instruction/ramona/plugin.html
QuickStudy: Library Research Guide by University of Minnesota Libraries Team
http://tutorial.lib.umn.edu
Searchpath: An Information Literacy Tutorial by Elaine Anderson Jayne, Western Michigan University
http://www.wmich.edu/library/searchpath/index.html
Skills for Teaching Information Literacy, UWA
Subject-Specific Tutorials
BIOS 1201 - Information Skills Tutorial by Southnary Praseuthsouk and Sue Owen, University of New South Wales
http://www.webct.unsw.edu.au
Login and password available in the Internet Education Project database
(http://cooley.colgate.edu/etech/iep/default.html).
Information Competence for the Discipline of Black Studies by Susan Luevano, Tiffini A. Travis, and Eileen Wakiji, California State University Long Beach
http://www.csulb.edu/~ttravis/BlackStudies/
Evidence-Based Medicine Tutorials by Robert Vander Hart and Peg Spinner, University of Massachusetts Medical School
http://library.umassmed.edu/EBM/tutorials/
Information Literacy Assessment Activities, CQU
Tool-Specific Tutorials
Using UTNetCAT by Peter Keane, Univerisity of Texas at Austin
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/ugl/usingutnetcat
Freshman Advising Workshop Library Tutorial by Martin Courtois, Avril Cunningham-Stillion, Carolyn Frenger, and Aditya Kapur,
George Washington University
http://www.gwu.edu/gelman/instruct/faw/intro/
To view the entire Internet Education Project database and learn more about the project's submission and selection criteria, see
http://cooley.colgate.edu/etech/iep/default.html
Call For Submissions
To submit materials to be considered for the IEP, please fill out the form at http://cooley.colgate.edu/dbs/iepsubmit/. Submissions are
accepted continually, but there are specific review periods.
For further information contact committee co-chairs Lori DuBois
(ldubois@williams.edu) and Melissa Koenig (mkoenig2@depaul.edu).