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Expanded and clarified the "history of the concept" section. ↠Previous revision Revision as of 22:30, 24 July 2009 Line 10: Line 10: ==History of the concept== ==History of the concept== -A seminal event in the development of the concept of information literacy was the establishment of the American Library Association’s Presidential Committee on Information [...]
Specific aspects of information literacy (Shapiro and Hughes, 1996) ↠Previous revision Revision as of 22:32, 24 July 2009 Line 25: Line 25: ==Specific aspects of information literacy (Shapiro and Hughes, 1996)== ==Specific aspects of information literacy (Shapiro and Hughes, 1996)== + In “Information Literacy as a Liberal Art”, Jeremy J. Shapiro and Shelley K. [...]
↠Previous revision Revision as of 22:34, 24 July 2009 Line 27: Line 27: In “Information Literacy as a Liberal Art”, Jeremy J. Shapiro and Shelley K. Hughes advocated a more holistic approach to information literacy education, one that encouraged not merely the addition of information technology courses as an adjunct to existing curricula, but [...]
Standards ↠Previous revision Revision as of 22:37, 24 July 2009 Line 211: Line 211: ==Education in the USA== ==Education in the USA== ===Standards=== ===Standards=== -With the passage of the Goals 2000: Educate America Act (1994), subject matter organizations were able to obtain funding to develop standards in their respective subject areas. Information literacy skills [...]
External links: Removed broked links ↠Previous revision Revision as of 23:27, 24 July 2009 Line 372: Line 372: *[http://www.infolitglobal.info/ IFLA. InfoLit Global] *[http://www.infolitglobal.info/ IFLA. InfoLit Global] *[http://www.ifla.org/VII/s42/index.htm IFLA Information Literacy Section] *[http://www.ifla.org/VII/s42/index.htm IFLA Information Literacy Section] – *[http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/issues/infolit/informationliteracy.cfm Information Literacy. American Library Association] *[http://www.infolit.org National Forum on Information Literacy.] *[http://www.infolit.org National Forum on Information [...]
↠Previous revision Revision as of 18:05, 26 July 2009 Line 7: Line 7: Jeremy Shapiro & Shelley Hughes (1996) define information literacy as “A new liberal art that extends from knowing how to use computers and access information to critical reflection on the nature of information itself, its technical infrastructure and its social, cultural, [...]