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Alliance
for Curriculum Reform
ACR seeks to encourage educators and the public to explore and discuss
important curriculum issues; locate, develop, and disseminate exemplary
models of curriculum and instruction; support and assist states,
districts, and schools in their reform efforts; and provide guidance
and advice to parents, business and industry, cultural leaders, policy
makers, and others with a stake in our children's education
American
Association of School Librarians
The mission of the American Association of School Librarians is to
advocate excellence, facilitate change, and develop leaders in the
school library media field. AASL works to ensure that all members of
the school library media field collaborate to: provide leadership in
the total education program, participate as active partners in the
teaching/learning process, connect learners with ideas and information,
and prepare students for life-long learning, informed decision-making,
a love of reading, and the use of information technologies.
Association
for Educational Communications & Technology
The mission of the Association for Educational Communications and
Technology is to provide leadership in educational communications and
technology by linking professionals holding a common interest in the
use of educational technology and its application to the learning
process.
CCLI
The California Clearinghouse for Library Instruction (CCLI) facilitates
the sharing of information about library instruction.
EDUCAUSE
The mission of EDUCAUSE is to advance higher education by promoting the
intelligent use of information technology.
IFLA
Information Literacy Section
Information Literacy Section of the International Federation of Library
Associations and Institutions (formerly the Round Table on User
Education). Focuses on all aspects of user education including
information literacy, learning styles, the use of computers, networked
resources, and media in the development of instructional programmes,
distance education, and the training of librarians in user education.
Instruction
Section
The Instruction Section of the Association of College and Research
Libraries enhances the ability of academic and research librarians to
advance learning, teaching and research with respect to information
literacy in higher education.
LIRT - Library
Instruction Round Table
A roundtable of the American Library Association advocating library
instruction as a means for developing competent library and information
use as a part of lifelong learning. LIRT membership represents all
types of libraries (academic, public, school, and special) committed to
this goal.
LOEX Clearinghouse
for Library Instruction
An educational clearinghouse for materials used in library instruction.
National
Forum on Information Literacy
Through its member organizations, the Forum examines the role of
information in our lives and integrates information literacy into their
programs.
sCIL
(formerly CCLI South)
The Southern California Instruction Librarians organization, or SCIL
(pronounced "skill"), is dedicated to providing continuing education
and discussion opportunities for library professionals from all types
of institutions.
SIMILE
A new online journal
The aim of Simile is to provide a venue for scholarly articles which
will bridge the subject
areas of bibliographic instruction, information literacy, and media
literacy.
TLT
Group: Teaching and Learning and Technology
The TLT Group's mission is to motivate and enable institutions and
individuals to improve teaching and learning with technology, while
helping them cope with continual change.
Resource Pages
Objectives
for Information Literacy Instruction: A Model Statement for Academic
Librarians
A companion statement to the Information Literacy Competency Standards
for Higher Education, written by a Task Force of the Instruction
Section and approved by the ACRL Board in January 2001.
Research
Agenda for Library Instruction and Information Literacy
A document written by the ACRL Instruction Section Research and
Scholarship Committee that outlines important research questions
related to instruction programs in academic libraries and poses
questions in order to encourage research in four main areas.
PRIMO:
Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online Database
PRIMO promote and shares selected peer-reviewed instructional materials
created by librarians for a variety of instructional audiences.
S.O.S.
for
Information Literacy
A "virtual idea factory" for K-16 (K-12 and college) educators
integrating teaching tips, lesson plans, and information
literacy-focused multimedia.
Share
Your Teaching Tool Kit: Best Practices in Library Instruction
A Discussion Forum held in San Antonio in 2001, sponsored by the
Teaching Methods and Education Committees of the ACRL Instruction
Section.
Information
Literacy Community Partnerships Toolkit
An initiative of ACRL's Institute
for Information Literacy
and one of ALA President Nancy Kranich's initiatives for her 2000 -
2001 presidential term. The overall goal of the effort is to build
information literacy community partnerships. These partnerships will
bring together librarians from school, academic, public and special
libraries and community members/organizations to help prepare the
public to utilize information efficiently and effectively.
Instruction
Section: Annual Conference Programs, 1978-Present
Includes a number of programs of direct relevance to Information
Literacy, including the 2001program "Partners
in Progress: Using Campus Partnerships to Promote Information Literacy."
Library
Instruction Courses Offered by ALA-Accredited Library Schools
A list of programs in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
Think
Tank III
A series of live, online events developed by ACRL's Instruction Section
which took place in October and November of 1999. Think Tank III
brought together a small group of librarians and educational
technologists from around the country to present papers on critical
information literacy issues and reflect on the future direction of
library instruction in higher education.