Information Literacy: An International State of the Art

D. Communication
An assessment of 26 Sub- Saharan Africa library webpages indicates that IL programs also extend to the on-line environment. In cases where there are no compulsory IL programs, library webpages of libraries are used to market IL programs which are on offer by those institutions to users.

The on-line tutorials range from those developed at institutional level within countries to those where links are provided to tutorials developed elsewhere.

An example of linked tutorials are those of Ashesi University College, Ghana - A private, accredited, non-sectarian college associated with Swarthmore, Berkeley and Microsoft links are provided to;

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  Texas Information Literacy tutorial
  
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  Information Tutorials from Albany
  
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  University of South Caroline Beaufort Library
  

The University of Cape Town South Africa has an example of an interactive tutorial on Information skills which is referred to as the “Info Skills corner.

http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/Training/Infolit/infolit/InfoLit.html

http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/llc/

Library guides
Another regular feature on library web pages to provide IL in different countries is the provision of library guides on how to use the library services and its information resources.
E. Conclusions
This paper notes that the level of IL awareness in the Sub-Saharan Africa region is fairly high in institutions of higher education. The main challenge in all countries is the development of policies at national and institutional levels which would guide and facilitate the intergration of IL programs from primary schools through to Institutions of higher learning.
F. References

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   Rosenberg, Diana (2005) in Foreword in User Information Literacy case studies from University Library programmes in the SCANUL-ES region, edited by International network for the Availability of a scientific publication, Oxford
   

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   Underwood, Peter (2002) “South Africa: A case study in development through Information Literacy,” July 2002, White paper, prepared for UNESCO, the US National Commission on Libraries and Information Science and the National Forum on Information Literacy, use at the Information meeting of Experts Prague, The Czech Republic .
   

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