Teaching in a Tea House”
Esther Grassian (UCLA) and Marsha Schnirring (Occidental College)
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
2 pm – 3 pm SLT
Cybrary City
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cybrary%20City/127/149/29/
You are probably working hard on information literacy instruction (ILI) at your institution or organization! Does your ILI build on what came before and offer additional foundation for what may come after? Are you aware of what came before and what comes after your own ILI efforts? Who is contributing to ILI, in which arenas, and how? How can we all best contribute to helping develop a populace with questioning, critical thinking, and researching knowledge and skills, clearly understood and integrated into school, work and personal/leisure activities and endeavors throughout a lifetime?
Many have made laudable efforts in developing ILI programs, and in working with K-12 and public libraries, leveraging efforts to prepare students for college and university-level work, thereby supporting lifelong learning for all. However, up to now few may have asked some key questions of libraries of all types regarding a broader, more sequential approach to lifelong information literacy.
LILi, a group of librarians from many types of California libraries (university, college, community college, school, public and special libraries), has come to together to investigate information literacy definitions, standards and instruction in California. The group has begun this investigation by developing and mounting a 30-question, to be promoted to over 13,000 California libraries of all types.
LILi participants are breaking new ground, learning each others’ vocabulary, engaging each other, and collaborating on an exciting new and risky venture, with few resources, but a grand dream–to share, learn from each other and build a broad and truly information literate populace at all levels, across California. …