Higher Education - Graduate & Faculty
Associations and organizations
American Library Association (ALA)
http://www.ala.org/
Association of Colleges and Research Libraries ACRL/ALA
http://tinyurl.com/3lc26
CARL: California Academic and Research Libraries. California Chapter of ACRL.
http://www.carl-acrl.org/
SCIL: Southern California Instruction Librarians CARL/ACRL/ALA
http://clics.ucsd.edu/scil/
Offers opportunities for networking and library-instruction-related workshops in Southern California.
Instruction Section IS/ACRL
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/aboutacrl/acrlsections/instruction/homepage.htm
Focuses primarily on academic libraries. Offers many opportunities for active professional involvement through committees and elected offices. Hosts discussions at each ALA Midwinter Conference and Programs at each ALA Annual Conference. The semi-annual newsletter includes reports on committee activities, as well as ALA Annual conference programs and ALA Midwinter discussion forums.
Library Instruction Round Table LIRT/ALA
http://www3.baylor.edu/LIRT/
Open to librarians in all types of libraries, with many opportunities for active professional invovlement through committees and elected offices. The quarterly newsletter includes a technology column and an annual list of the top 20 library-instruction-related publications.
California Clearinghouse on Library Instruction, North
http://ic.arc.losrios.edu/~ccli/
Maintains a depository of library instructional materials created by librarians in
Northern California. Offers oppotunities for networking and library-instruction-
related workshops in Northern California
LOEX (Library Orientation and EXchange)
http://www.emich.edu/public/loex/loex.html
National clearinghouse of library instructional materials and links. Their annual
conference is often overbooked.
Directories/Megasites
Calisphere. University of California
http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/
Primary source images and documents, plus "Themed Collections...
primary source sets organized to support California Content Standards."
Information Competency. Topsy N. Smalley
http://www.topsy.org/infocomp.html
Listservs
ILI-L.
"Formerly the BI-L listserv, hosted on the American Library Association server,
and sponsored by the Instruction Section of the Association of College and
Research Libraries. Discusses Information Literacy Instruction, Bibliographic
Instruction, Library Use Instruction, and Library Orientation. The home page for
the list <http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/is/ilil.htm> includes archives for both
ILI-L and BI-L. Subscription required: Send message to listproc@ala.org with
"subscribe ILI-L your name" in the body of the message." (ALA. ACRL.
Information Literacy. Electronic Lists.
http://tinyurl.com/ayk4k
Sample Curricula/Lesson Plans
Activities List: Information literacy. Dalhousie Libraries
http://infolit.library.dal.ca/staff/activities_list.htm
MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
Note: Public domain digital learning objects created mostly by faculty/librarians
and organized by subject.
http://www.merlot.org/Home.po
Tips and Techniques for Library Instruction. University of Texas, Austin
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/services/instruction/tips/index.html
Standards
CSU Information Competence Project. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
http://www.lib.calpoly.edu/infocomp/
Information Competence Initiative. California State University
http://www.calstate.edu/LS/infocomp.shtml
Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. 2003. ALA/ACRL. http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/informationliteracycompetency.htm
Information Literacy: What the UC Libraries are doing
http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/infolit/
Information Literacy Web Site. ALA/ACRL
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/informationliteracy.htm
Tutorials
Finding Information on the Internet. UC Berkeley Library
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
List of Core Competencies: CSU Information Competence Project. Cal State Poly
Note: Includes tutorials.
http://www.lib.calpoly.edu/infocomp/project/outline.html
OWLS: Online workshops for library skills. CSU Humboldt
http://library.humboldt.edu/owls/
Road to Research. UCLA College Library/ Esther Grassian
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/library/
Basic information literacy tutorial, geared to UCLA undergraduates.
To use, click on Guest, then on Skip to Tutorial.
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