Information Literacy: An International State of the Art

D. Organizations

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   Associations and professional bodies
   

Federation of Library Associations of Brazil recently created an ad-hoc information literacy committee to promote this activity in its membership. Mexico has the binannual Information Skills Development (That is an information literacy Meeting that has a website for national IL resources), www.uacj.mx/dhi. A new non-governmental body is emerging, the Comunidad DHI that aims to promote information literacy awareness and act as a clearing house for IL materials (www.DHI.com).

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   Research projects / Research centers
   

Mexico has information competencies as research subject at CUIB, the major library research center in Latin America. This center was one of the early promoters of user education. At least a couple researchers focus their research activity to IL that in turn has published some monographs on the subject. The Escuela Interamericana de Medellin, Colombia, has carried out a Latin American study on the development of information literacy activities, using a survey technique (Naranjo, 2006), as well as studies on virtual education and IT use (Uribe, 2006).