Information Literacy Resources

• ALA | ACRL's Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education - Definitions, concepts and ideas related to information literacy and its role within higher education.

• ALA | ACRL Institute for Information Literacy - The institute has three goals: to prepare librarians to become effective teachers in information literacy programs; to support librarians, other educators and administrators in playing a leadership role in the development and implementation of information literacy programs; and to forge new relationships throughout the educational community to work towards information literacy curriculum development.

• ALA | ACRL Information Literacy Website - a gateway to and a gathering place for resources on information literacy focused on improving the teaching, learning, and research role of the higher education community.

• Information Literacy and the CLAS Learning Communities - This site was designed and compiled by the CLAS IT Steering Committee in Spring 2003 as a resource for ASU faculty teaching within one of the three CLAS Learning Communities (War, Culture and Memory; Multicultural America; and Human Disease and Society) that were launched in the Fall 2003 semester. The purpose and goals of this resource are to provide discussion and assignment ideas, which are meant to integrate information literacy competencies, either implicitly or explicitly, within the first-year curricula of the courses taught within the framework of the learning communities.

• Technology and Foreign Language Learning - A 29-page bibliography (MS Word) of pertinent articles and texts related to the use of technology in second language learning.

• "Information Literacy as a Liberal Art. Enlightenment Proposals for a New Curriculum" - Review article y Jeremy J. Shapiro and Shelley K. Hughes, in EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 31 (2): March/April 1996

• Digital Transformation. A Framework for ICT Literacy - The Educational Testing Service recently released a new standardized test for assessing students' proficiency with information and communication technologies.

• Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences - released December 13, 2006. "Cyberinfrastructure" is more than just hardware and software, more than bigger computer boxes and wider pipes and wires connecting them. The term was coined by NSF to describe the new research environments in which high-performance computing tools are available to researchers in a shared network environment. These tools and environments are being built, and the ACLS feels it is important for the humanities and social sciences to participate in their design and construction.