Submitted to the LAUC-I Board
12-21-01

OUTLINE

I Background
II. What is Information Literacy? ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards.
III. Creating a LAUC-ICONTACT List
IV. Survey of Information Literacy Activities at UCI - List any efforts/developments, including potential targets
III. The LAUC-I Plan (potential) to implement Information Literacy Projects
IV. How and Timeline for implementing the Information Literacy Project at UCI
V. Bibliography

BACKGROUND

Due to the enormous impact of information explosion on all people, there is a great need to become information literate for everyone. According to the American Library Association information literacy is the ability recognize when information is needed. "To identify, locate, evaluate, and use effectively information needed for the particular decision or issue at hand". The information literate person, therefore, can make effective decisions, has freedom of choice, and can fully participate in a democratic society.

The Library responsibility to help people become information literate is a shared across a campus. "Ideally, administrators support information literacy goals for their institutions. Course instructors help their students achieve information literacy in their chosen fields, and librarians and other campus professionals collaborate with course instructors in this effort." The levels of collaboration between librarians and academic departments differ among institutions as well as within any one institution. There is a need for librarians to take leadership in campus-wide collaborative efforts to develop and achieve information literacy goals.

This draft only touches upon basics. As LAUC-I and LAUC proceed to work on Information Literacy projects, may of the contents will evolve. For instance, the list of contacts is very limited; more contacts will be added.

THE ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES INFORMATION LITERACY COMPETENCY STANDARDS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION

Please refer to the web site: http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilcomstan.html

1. Information Literacy Defined
2. Information Literacy and Information Technology
3. Information Literacy and Higher Education
4. Information Literacy and Pedagogy
5. Use of the Standards
6. Information Literacy and Assessment

STANDARDS, PERFORMANCE INDICATORS, AND OUTCOMES
Please refer to the web site: http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilstandardlo.html

Standard One
The information literate student determines the nature and extent of the information needed.
Standard Two
The information literate student accesses needed information effectively and efficiently.
Standard Three
The information literate student evaluates information and its sources critically and incorporates selected information into his or her knowledge base and value system.
Standard Four
The information literate student, individually or as a member of a group, uses information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose.
Standard Five
The information literate student understands many of the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information and accesses and uses information ethically and legally.
Standard Five
The information literate student understands many of the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information and accesses and uses information ethically and legally.

CONTACT LIST- Suggested List (Preliminary)
ACRL Task Force Members Developing the Information Literacy Competency Standards http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilabout.html
Patricia Iannuzzi, Chair
Associate University Librarian and Director
University of California at Berkeley
piannuzz@library.berkeley.edu

Mike Eisenberg
Director, School of Library and Information Science
University of Washington
mbe@u.washington.edu

Donald W. Farmer
Vice President for Academic Affairs
Kings College (PA)
dwfarmer@kings.edu

Craig Gibson
Associate University Librarian for Public Services
George Mason University Libraries (VA)
jgibson1@fen1.gmu.edu

Lori A. Goetsch
Director of Libraries for Public Services
University of Maryland
lgoetsch@deans.umd.edu

Althea H. Jenkins, Ex-Officio
Executive Director
Association of College and Research Libraries
jenkins@ala.org

Barton Lessin
Assistant Dean and Director,
Science and Engineering Library
Wayne State University
b.lessin@wayne.edu

Bonnie Gratch Lindauer
Coordinator of Reference Services,
City College of San Francisco
bgratch@ccsf.cc.ca.us

Hannelore B. Rader
University Librarian
University of Louisville
hbrade01@gwise.louisville.edu

Oswald Ratteray
Assistant Director for Constituent Services and Special Programs
Middle States Commission on Higher Education
oratteray@msache.org

LAUC-I COLLABORATION EFFORTS - WHO HAS DONE WHAT…
Goal: to develop the list at our next meeting(s) and as we go along
A. Collaboration in the Library
B. Collaboration on Campus
C. UC-wide collaboration - Libraries and other units

The LAUC-I PLAN (Some of the ideas we discussed before)
A. Need a planning Group
B. Educate ourselves as LAUC-I members
C. Host speaker series/programs-- may include UCR to further learn and investigate broader implementation issues
D. Combine outcomes of III and IV and put together a proposal for:
1. How to include IC standards in regular BI's
2. Gain campus wide support to introduce information literacy "credit course(s) with a focus in various academic departments (hopefully the same as a the UC Libraries system-wide initiative)

HOW/TIMELINE?
A. Decide how to invite interested parties to serve in the Planning Group.
B. Decide how to go about educating LAUC-I, what programs, how long?
C. Set a goal to do certain things according to a schedule. For example, to have a great speaker series, planning for 2002, must begin now.
D. Decide how to collaborate with the system-wide efforts
E. Decide on what the final product for the Information Literacy efforts of the UCI Library is.
F. Etc.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

These Library Information Competencies Web sites complement an earlier bibliography that I developed. These sites focus on applications of Information competency modules, standards and other efforts.

1. The Teaching Library Information Literacy Survey, UC Berkeley
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Survey.html

2. Applying Big6 Skills™and Information Literacy Standards to Internet Research
http://www.surfline.ne.jp/janetm/big6info.htm

3. SUNY Council of Library Directors Information Literacy Initiative
http://olis.sysadm.suny.edu/ili/resources.htm

4. Web Tutorial Links used in DOT@MAC development
http://dotatmac.mcmaster.ca/about_dotatmac/tutorial_bookmarks.htm

5. CSU Information Competence Websites http://multiweb.lib.calpoly.edu/infocomp/modules/index.html
The 9 online tutorials listed below provide guidance and practical
exercises on Information Competence on the following topics : Contact Judy Swanson, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

6. Introductory Competencies in Specific Disciplines
http://multiweb.lib.calpoly.edu/infocomp/specific.html
Though there are specific, competencies required within each discipline, all students should master the 10 basic information competencies outlined in the CSU Information Competence Project. These 10 core competencies are as follows.

5. Campus Computing and Communications Policy Board Instructional Technology Subcommittee
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~cccpb-it/cccpbit-index.html

Draft submitted by Pauline Manaka 12/21/01