IL Resources

From ETS

Information Literacy Readings

Association of College & Research Libraries. Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. 2000. The current information literacy standards for colleges and universities---scheduled to be significantly revised (hopefully with an eye towards online content creation, the social web and more) within the next few years.

American Association of School Librarians (AASL). Standards for the 21st Century Learner. 2008.

Gibson, Craig. Prisms Around Student Learning: Information Literacy, IT Fluency,and Media Literacy. Educause, 2007. Articulates the blending of information literacy with other literacies and opportunities for collaboration among technologists, librarians and teaching faculty.

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).NETS for Students---National Educational Technology Standards. 2007. The new AASL and ISTE standards both provide new perspectives on the rapidly merging role of information literacy with other critical digital literacies.

Head, Alison & Michael Eisenberg. University of Washington Project Information Literacy Progress Report. 2009.

Lippincott, Joan M. Student Content Creators: Convergence of Literacies. E Review, vol. 42, no. 6 (November/December 2007): 16–17. This article neatly sums up the changing face of information literacy, and its' role alongside other digital literacies, including media, technology and visual literacies.