Information Competence/Literacy -- Selected Readings and Links

• About CSUN's Information Competence Program
• Information Literacy Training Programs
• Information Literacy Definitions
• Discipline Specific Information Literacy Approaches
• Teaching Information Literacy
• Higher Education Reform Movements
• Information Literacy Standards
• History of Bibliographic Instruction in Higher Education
• Faculty Librarian Collaboration
• Information Literacy in the Workplace
• More resources
• Blogs of Interest

Recommended Recent Books and Publications

Integrating Information Literacy into the Higher Education Curriculum : Practical Models for Transformation Ilene F. Rockman, and Associates ISBN: 0-7879-6527-8 April 2004, Jossey-Bass

Motivating Students in Information Literacy Classes,Trudi E. Jacobson and Lijuan Xu.  New York: Neal-Schuman, 2004. 143 p. $60 (ISBN 1-55570-497-2)

Information Literacy Training Programs/ Best Practices / Forums

• ACRL Information Literacy Immersion Program (http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/professactivity/iil/immersion/immersionprograms.htm)
• ACRL Best Practices Initiative Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices Working Edition (http://acrl.telusys.net/webcast/media-library/v0008/assessment/BPinitiative.html)
• National Forum on Information Literacy
  (http://www.infolit.org/)

Information Literacy Definitions

• Information Literacy Definitions. Compiled by K. Alix Hayden (University of Calgary Library)
  http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/ILG/litdef.html
• Wikipedia: Information Literacy
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_literacy
• Bruce, Christine (1997). The Seven Faces of Information Literacy, Adelaide, AUSLIB Press.
• Bruce, Christine S.: The phenomenon of information literacy. Higher education research and development 17(1998)1: 25-43.
• Bruce, Christine S. and Candy, Philip C., eds.: Information literacy around the world: advances in programs and research. Wagga Wagga, NSW: Centre for Information Studies, Charles Stuart University, 2000.
• Doyle, Christan, S. Outcome Measures for Information Literacy Within the National Education Goals of 1990: Final Report to the National Forum on Information Literacy. Summary of Findings June, 1992. ERIC Document ED 351033

Information Literacy as Process Conception

• Carol Collier Kuhlthau, "Developing a Model of the Library Search Process: Cognitive and Affective Aspects," RQ, 28, 2, 1988, pp. 232-242.
• Carol Collier Kuhlthau,. Seeking meaning: A process approach to library and information services. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing. (1993).
• Patricia Ianuzzi,. "Faculty development and information literacy: establishing campus partnerships." Reference services review Fall/Winter, 97-116. (1998)
• Maryellen Weimer,. Improving College Teaching: Strategies for Developing Instructional Effectiveness. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990.

Information Literacy as Creativity Conception

• Hensley, Randy. "Curiosity and Creativity as Attributes of Information Literacy." Reference & User Services Quarterly v. 44 no. 1 (Fall 2004)
  p. 31-6
• Petrowski, Mary Jane. "Creativity Research: Implications for Teaching, Learning and Thinking." Reference Services Review 28.4 (2000): 304-12.

Discipline Specific Information Literacy

• Grafstein, Ann (2002) A Discipline-Based Approach to Information Literacy. Journal of Academic Librarianship, Vol. 28, Issue 4
• Integration of Learning Outcomes California State University
  http://www.calstate.edu/LS/Outcomes.shtml

Teaching Information Literacy

• Breivik, Patricia Senn. Student Learning in the Information Age. Series on Higher Education. Phoenix, Ariz. : American Council on Education/Oryx Press, 1998.
• Esther S. Grassian and Joan R. Kaplowitz Information literacy instruction : theory and practice. New York : Neal-Schuman, c2001.
• Jacobson, Trudi E and Lijuan Xu (2004) Motivating Students in Information Literacy Classes. New York : Neal-Schuman, c2004.
• Advocate for Information Literacy
  http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/professactivity/advocate/advocateil.htm

Understanding Information Literacy Within the Context of Higher Education Reform Movements

• Rockman, Ilene F. and Associates "Integrating Information Literacy into the Higher Education Curriculum : Practical Models for Transformation." San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2004.
• W. B. Carnochan. The Battleground of the Curriculum. Liberal Education and American Experience. Stanford, 1993.
• Jerry G. Gaff, James L. Ratcliff, & Associates Handbook of the Undergraduate Curriculum: A Comprehensive Guide to Purposes, Structures, Practices, and Change Jossey-Bass Publishers. 1997.
• Boyer, Earnest L. College: The undergraduate experience in America. New York: Harper & Row. 1987.

Standards for Information Literacy

• Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. Chicago: ACRL, 2000. http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilcomstan.html
• ACRL Standards Toolkit
  http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/infolitstandards/standardstoolkit.htm
• Objectives for Information Literacy Instruction: A Model Statement for Academic Librarian. Chicago: ACRL, 2001.
  http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/objectivesinformation.htm
• ISTE International Society for Technology in Education
  http://cnets.iste.org/currstands/cstands-il.html

History of Bibliographic Instruction in Higher Education

• Otis H. Robinson, "Proceedings," American Library Journal 1 (November 30, 1876): 123-24 as cited by Edward G. Holley, "Academic Libraries in 1876," College & Research Libraries 37 (January 1976): 15.
• Patricia Knapp, "A Suggestive Program of College Instruction in the Use of the Library," Library Quarterly (July 1956): 230.
• ACRL Instruction Section. The BI Knowledge Base: A Brief Retrospective
  http://www.ala.org/acrl/is/projects/kb/slideshow/
• Carla J. Stoffle [with Alan E. Guskin and Joseph A. Boisse] "Teaching, Research and Service: The Academic Library's Role" , New Directions in Teaching and Learning, No. 18, edited by Tom Kirk. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1984, pp 3-14.
• Farber, Evan Ira. College Libraries and the Teaching/Learning Process: A 25-year Reflection. Journal of Academic Librarianship 25.3 (1999): 171-177.
• Hardesty, Larry. "Reflections on 25 Years of Library Instruction: Have We Made Progress?" Reference Services Review 27.3 (1999): 242-246.

Faculty Librarian Collaboration

• Farber, Evan. "Faculty-Librarian Cooperation: a Personal Perspective." Reference Services Review 27.3 (1999): 229-34.
• Raspa, Dick; Ward, Dane, eds. The Collaborative Imperative: Librarians and Faculty Working Together in the Information Universe. Chicago: ACRL, 2000.

Information Literacy in the Workplace

• Bruce, Christine S. Information Literacy in the Workplace: Workplace experiences of information literacy. International journal of information management 19(1999)1:33-48.
• Bruce, Christine S.: Information literacy in the workplace. 3rd National Information Literacy Conference, 'Information literacy: the professional issue', 8-9 December 1997, Canberra, Adelaide, SA: University of South Australia Library, 1998:29-37.
• Goad, Tom. Information literacy and workplace performance. Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 2002.

More Resources

• Scott Walter's Site on Instructional Improvement in Academic Libraries
  http://people.ku.edu/~slwalter/instruction/index.html
• Directory of Online Resources for Information Literacy: Papers and Presentations concerning Information Literacy
  http://bulldogs.tlu.edu/mdibble/doril/papers.html
• Other Information Literacy Resources
  http://www.ala.org/acrl/nili/resources.html

Blogs

• Information Literacy Weblog 
  http://ciquest.shef.ac.uk/infolit/
• The Information Literacy Land of Confusion
  http://lorenzen.blogspot.com/

Compiled by Lynn Lampert