Welcome to the ACRL Institute for Information Literacy

We invite you to browse the IIL Web site to read announcements, learn more about IIL, about IIL programs, and about information literacy, including related publications. Please contact Stephanie Michel (michel@up.edu) if you have questions about IIL.

IIL has three basic goals:

1. Prepare librarians to become effective teachers in information literacy programs;
2. Support librarians, other educators and administrators in playing a leadership role in the development and implementation of information literacy programs;
3. Forge new relationships throughout the educational community to work towards information Literacy curriculum development.

Program initiatives include:

1. Annual Immersion Programs
   Four and-a-half-day programs that provide intensive information literacy training and education for instruction librarians
2. Institutional Strategies: Best Practices
   A program that assists individual institutions in developing strategies for developing and implementing effective information literacy programs.
3. Community Partnerships
   A program that provides opportunities for a combination of community partners (i.e. academic and K-12; academic, K-12, and public, etc.) to work toward instituting 'community-based' information literacy programs.

IIL Organization

About the IIL Web Site

Publications

Oberman, 10/08 (“The Institute for Information Literacy,” C&RL News)
Oberman, Gratch Lindauer, Wilson 5/98 (“Integrating Information Literacy Into the Curriculum,” C&RL News
Oberman & Wilson 5/98 (“Information Literacy IQ Test,” C&RL News)
Grassian & Clark 2/99 (“Information Literacy Sites,” C&RL News; an update of this article is available online for ACRL members only, Grassian & Oppenheim 9/2005)

Organizations

ACRL's Instruction Section
ALA's Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT)
LOEX (Library Orientation Exchange)
California Clearinghouse on Library Instruction (CCLI)
Southern California Instruction Librarians (sCIL, formerly CCLI-South)
National Forum on Information Literacy
The TLT Group: Teaching, Learning & Technology
IFLA Information Literacy Section (formerly the Round Table on User Education)

Send questions, comments and updates to Stephanie Michel (michel@up.edu).