About the Alliance
 Upon a recommendation from the Prague Conference of Information Literacy Experts held September 20-23, 2003, the following organizations are committing to creating an International Alliance for Information Literacy. The evolving purpose for the Alliance is to facilitate the sharing of information and expertise on information literacy across regions and nations of the world. The ultimate goal of the Alliance is to facilitate people’s participating effectively in the Information Society, as part of the basic human right of life long learning. The Alliance will consist of organizations that act as nodes around the world. Member organizations will generally be regional or national organizations that are broadly based, including representation from the economic development, education, health, human services, librarianship, public policy, and information and communications technology sectors.
First of 12 world wide UNESCO sponsored "Train the Trainer" information literacy workshops held in Montego Bay, Jamaica
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Founding Members
Australian and New Zealand Institute for Information Literacy (ANZIIL)
http://www.anziil.org/
European Network on Information Literacy (EnIL) (European Union)
http://www.ceris.to.cnr.it/Basili/EnIL/index.html
National Forum on Information Literacy (United States)
http://www.infolit.org
NORDINFOlit (Scandinavia)
http://www.nordinfolit.org
Members
Information Science Today (Bangladesh)
http://www.infosciencetoday.org
Networking Alliance for Voluntary Actions (India)
http://www.navaindia.org
Russian Reading Association, Pskov Department
http://www.infolit.org/members/rrapd.html
SCONUL Advisory Committee on Information Literacy (United Kingdom)
http://www.sconul.ac.uk/activities/inf_lit/
Additional International Resources
IFLA Presidential Committee for the International Agenda on Lifelong Literacy: Final Report (Oct. 2005) [84 KB Word document]
Information Skills for Learning: Part II (Empowering 8 International Workshop)
Applying A Problem-Solving Model in South and South East Asia to promote Information Literacy
3-7 October 2005
Punjabi University, Patiala
"Information Literacy Promotion and Implementation: CEI Countries Perspectives", a paper by Zdravka Pejova (presented at the Expert Seminar IVIG 2005 on September 22, 2005, at the Charles University, Prague) [186 KB Word document]
DEDICATE (Sweden)
Focused on the creation of "cost-effective distance education courses in information literacy," DEDICATE represents the collaborative efforts of nine European and Scandinavian institutions of higher education. The home page provides a description of the project, as well as numerous links to distance education efforts, and a DEDICATE newsletter.
http://educate.lib.chalmers.se/DEDICATE/dedindex.html
EnIL (European Union)
The European Network on Information Literacy is a network of scientists and researchers involved in information literacy and drawn from 14 EU countries. EnIL promotes discussion of information literacy in the European Union.
http://www.ceris.to.cnr.it/Basili/EnIL/index.html
FORMIST (France)
A service of the French national library and information science school (Enssib), FORMIST is a French-speaking network of information literacy resources. The first objective of FORMIST is to collect and organize educational tools and provide them to instructors and students on a French-speaking web site. FORMIST also has an important role as coordinator of an information literacy instructors network and organizes an annual conference in June, Rencontres FORMIST.
http://formist.enssib.fr
Fulbright Scholar Program (United States)
The U.S. Fulbright Scholar Program offers several opportunities every year for U.S. faculty and professionals in information science or library science to lecture, conduct research or do both in 150 countries around the globe. Awards range from two months to an academic year. The deadline is August 1 of the year prior to the academic year in which the grant would begin. The website provides full information on available opportunities, as well as describing opportunities for hosting visiting scholars from abroad in information science.
http://www.cies.org
The Information Literacy Website (UK)
"The site will support practitioners by providing news, case studies, examples of best practice and freely available toolkits. Our aim is to provide a practical resource that information professionals regularly visit to discover the latest developments in information literacy" (from home page). http://www.informationliteracy.org.uk/
Manitoba Information Literacy Group (Canada)
This site, part of the Manitoba Library Association, includes information and links addressing school libraries, evaluating information, information literacy models, and Canadian case studies. http://www.mla.mb.ca/infolit/links.cfm
NetLinks: Collaborative Professional Development for Networked Learner Support
The home page of a United Kingdom technology and information literacy project funded between 1995 and 1998, NetLinks provides information about the initiative, as well as related reports, extensive annotated bibliographies (with Web links), related UK projects and electronic discussions. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/projects/netlinks/
UK Academics and Information Literacy Research Project
A web site documenting a 2002-05 project investigating "UK academics' conceptions of, and pedagogy for, information literacy."
http://dis.shef.ac.uk/literacy/project/about.html
Dr. F. Woody Horton, author of UNESCO's Understanding Information Literacy: A Primer (2007), at an information literacy workshop in Wuhan University, China in October, 2008. |
UNESCO Information for All Programme (IFAP)
"The Information for All Programme is an intergovernmental programme, created in 2000. Through IFAP, Governments of the world have pledged to harness the new opportunities of the information age to create equitable societies through better access to information" (from "About IFAP" page).
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=21103&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=-465.html
UNESCO Information Literacy
An introduction to UNESCO's focus and activities in information literacy.
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=15886&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Further information on international activities can be found at UNESCO's information literacy Web site.
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