Links & a workshop

Dear Sue,

I hope your summer is going well. I decided to take the Creating a Comprehensive Plan for Information Literacy workshop offered by ACRL. So far most of it is needs-assessment information, which reminds me of a lot of what we talked about in Bob's class.

As part of the needs assessment phase I've been looking into information literacy programs at universities. The following are schools that offer for-credit information literacy classes:

Iowa State University
Oklahoma State University
University of Missouri-Columbia
University of North Carolina-Asheville
University of Rhode Island
University of Richmond
Wake Forest University

I also have been scouting out local university library websites to see what is going on in our area. When looking at my alma mater's site I found a librarian's personal page. He raises a point that I think you'd find interesting from an article by Shapiro and Hughes. The issue is that "information literacy" is an ambiguous term. He thinks that people ought to consider who gets to decide what "information literacy" is and what the goals are.

Anyway, just some random IL thoughts on this overcast Monday.

I'll let you know what other interesting ideas come up through my work in this workshop.

Lauren