Information Literacy: An International State of the Art

F. Communication

1. 
   Conferences
   

The two principal conferences are:

1. 
   LILAC Librarians' Information Literacy Annual Conference at http://www.cilip.org.uk/specialinterestgroups/bysubject/informationliteracy/lilac/lilac2006
   

This started in 2005, and has many of the papers available online on the conference website.

2. 
   eLit at http://www.lboro.ac.uk/library/eLit2006/.
   

This started as the IT&IL conference in 2002. Again, many papers are available on the conference website.

Another notable conference in 2006, Recognising the information need, resulted in Walton and Pope (2006) and the conference presentations and breakout reports are on the website at http://www.staffs.ac.uk/infolitconf/

2. 
   Weblogs and websites
   

The main weblog is the Information Literacy weblog maintained by Sheila Webber and Stuart Boon at http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/ which is updated several times each week.

Important websites devoted to information literacy include:

1. 
   The information literacy website http://www.informationliteracy.co.uk/.
   

A website which aims to be the UK portal for information literacy, supported by a number of professional associations in the UK. It was launched 28th March 2006. It has section on Events, Research, different sectors etc.

2. 
   Robinson, A. (2005) Strongest links: website for school librarians
   

http://www.strongest-links.org.uk/infolit.htm.

Susie Andretta’s ITIL website with various resources, teaching material and links at http://www.ilit.org/

3. 
   Chris Powis’ wiki Infoteach which “is intended to be a dynamic information base on teaching and learning in a library or information context” (i.e. it is about teaching information literacy, rather than information literacy itself) at http://www.infoteach.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page.
   

4. 
   Ofcom (Office of Communications) Media Literacy website at http://www.ofcom.org.uk/advice/media_literacy/
   

The main information literacy discussion list is: Lis-infoliteracy at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/lis-infoliteracy.html.