Information Literacy: An International State of the Art

F. Communication
Information literacy professionals in Australia have access to one nationwide discussion list, hosted by ALIA and moderated by the ALIA Information Literacy Forum for members. aliaINFOLIT is the ALIAnet e-list affiliated with this group or activity. Details for access: http://www.alia.org.au/alianet/e-lists/. Other organisations and peak bodies support independent and closed only discussion forums.
G. Key players in information literacy
Many of the strategic directions, research and practical initiatives which have governed the Australian information literacy landscape over the last two decades can be directly attributed to a number of strategic leaders, organisations, researchers and practitioners.
Dr Alan Bundy

Library Director, University of South Australia Library (retired 2004); President, Australian Library & Information Association (1988 & 2002); initiator and editorial director of Auslib Press, Australia’s largest publisher of library and information science; inducted as a Member of the Order of Australia for services to academic, school and public libraries (2005). Dr Bundy has been instrumental in initiating, resourcing and driving many of the significant information literacy initiatives in Australia, including the development of a governing set of information literacy standards for Australasia, the establishment of ANZIIL, support of the national information literacy conferences and advocacy in public and teriary executive and legislative sectors. Selected conference papers and presentations 1996-2004 available online: http://www.library.unisa.edu.au/about/papers/abpapers.asp

Irene Doskatsch

Deputy Director: Library Services at the University of South Australia. Irene was also the foundation Executive Director, from 2001 to 2006, of the Australian and New Zealand Institute for Information Literacy. From 1992 to 2001, convened five national information literacy conferences. In 2000, she organised a national workshop to rework the US Information Literacy competency standards for higher education within an Australian context, and to progress the idea of an Australasian Institute for Information Literacy.

Christine Bruce

Christine Bruce is Associate Professor and Director, Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology. She is interested in the generic capabilities agenda in both undergraduate and postgraduate contexts. Her research foci revolve around the perceptual worlds of information and IT users, including information literacy.