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UNESCO/IFLA “Training the Trainers” workshop held in Quebec City

The National Forum on Information Literacy co-sponsored a “Training the Trainers” workshop that was held in Quebec City, Province of Quebec, Canada on August 8 and 9. Other co-sponsors were UNESCO and the International Federation of Library Associations. Dr. Sharon Weiner reported on information literacy highlights in the USA. (.ppt)

On Monday, August 11, 2008 at the International Federation of Library Association Congress, Dr. Abdul Khan, Assistant Director General for Communications and Information, UNESCO, announced that the winner of the joint UNESCO/IFLA logo contest is a young Cuban artist, Edgar Perez. The logo is the international symbol for information literacy. More information is available at Dr. Khan's Blog.

"The logo communicates, in a simple way, the human ability to both search and access information, not only through traditional means, but also through the use of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies), as it uses graphic resources known all over the world, such as the book and the circle. The first one symbolizes study, and the second, knowledge and information, which today are made more available through informatics, showing with this that its social aim is to communicate.

The book, open and next to the circle, comprises with it a visual metaphor representing those people who have the cognitive tools to reach information in a nimble way, as well as the desire to share this ability."

Edgar Luy Pérez
Designer

 
 
  What is Information Literacy? What is the Forum?  
 
- Information Literacy is defined as the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that information for the issue or problem at hand.





Alexandria Proclamation Team, 2005
Beacons of the Information Society
"Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning"



     - The National Forum on Information Literacy was created in 1989 as a response to the recommendations of the American Library Association's Presidential Committee on Information Literacy. These education, library, and business leaders stated that no other change in American society has offered greater challenges than the emergence of the Information Age. Information is expanding at an unprecedented rate, and enormously rapid strides are being made in technology for storing, organizing, and accessing the ever-growing tidal wave of information.

The combined effect of these factors is an increasingly fragmented information base, a large component of which are available only to people with money and/or acceptable institutional affiliations. In the recent past, the outcome of these challenges has been characterized as the "digital divide."		  
           

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Dr. Sharon Weiner
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