How To Get Started with Information Literacy: Special Selection

An ACRL/TLT Group Online Seminar
July 6 to 20, 2006
Live Webcasts: Thursdays, 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. EDT
Seminar Leaders:Rebecca Jackson, Iowa State University, and Sheril Hook, University of Toronto at Mississauga
Workshop Description:This workshop introduces participants to a carefully selected set of basic resources and holistic approaches for launching or advancing local undergraduate information literacy programs.
These resources are selected specifically for librarians, faculty members, faculty development professionals, and their colleagues who are just beginning to help students learn how to use information resources more responsibly and effectively or to set up (or are in the early stages of establishing) information literacy programs for their institutions.
Note: These selected resources are readily available from a variety of sources, mostly on the Web, and include ACRL's guidelines and standards. However, we expect and encourage many participants to adapt the definitions and goals for "information literacy" to the needs and resources of their own institutions and will discuss strategies for this in the workshop. If IL is not the term your institution uses, you may