Information Literacy: An International State of the Art

Teacher Librarians Supporting Student Learning

http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/teachlib/info_lit/infomain.htm

Based in Saskatchewan, Canada.
WILU - Workshop on Instruction in Library Use

Inspired by the original LOEX conferences, this Canadian counterpart meets annually and is hosted by different institutions each year. These links are to the most recent conferences (WILU35) http://library.acadiau.ca/wilu/ and WILU36 http://www.yorku.ca/wilu2007/.

5. Training the Trainers
Institute for Information Literacy Immersion.

http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/professactivity/iil/immersion/immersionprograms.htm

“ACRL Institute for Information Literacy Immersion Program provides instruction librarians with the opportunity to work intensively for four-and-a-half days on all aspects of Information Literacy. Whether your institution is just beginning to think about implementing an Information Literacy component or whether you have a program well under way, the Immersion Program will provide your instruction librarian with the intellectual tools and practical techniques to help your institution build or enhance its instruction program.”
Association for Teacher-librarianship in Canada and the Canadian School Library Association. 1997. Students’ Information Literacy needs: Competencies for teacher-librarians in the twenty-first century. http://www.atlc.ca/Publications/competen.htm

Professional and personal competencies are specified, with examples, based on research and national response panels.