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Unit 12: Evaluation of User Educational Programmes

12.4 Bibliography Notes

Prague Declaration: “Towards an Information Literate Society” http://www.infolit.org/2003.html
Alexandria Proclamation: A High Level International Colloquium on Information Literacy and
Lifelong Learning,http://www.infolit.org/2005.html 2006 Information Literacy Summit: American
Competitiveness in the Internet Age http://www.infolit.org/reports.html 1989 Presidential
Committee on Information Literacy: Final Reporthttp://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/
publications/whitepapers/presidential.cfm
1983 A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform http://www.ed.gov/pubs/
NatAtRisk/index.html Gibson, C. (2004). Information literacy develops globally: The role of the
national forum on information literacy.

Knowledge

Quest. http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/kqweb/kqarchives/vol32/
324TOC2.cfm Breivik P.S. and Gee, E.G. (2006). Higher education in the internet age: Libraries
creating a strategic edge. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.

Educational schemata
One view of the components of information literacy
Based on the Big6 by Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz.
http://big6.com/
1. The first step in the Information Literacy strategy is to clarify and understand the
requirements of the problem or task for which information is sought.
Basic questions asked at this stage:
(i) What is known about the topic?
(ii) What information is needed?
(iii) Where can the information be found?
2. Locating: The second step is to identify sources of information and to find those resources.
Depending upon the task, sources that will be helpful may vary. Sources may include
books, encyclopedias, maps, almanacs, etc. Sources may be in electronic, print, social
bookmarking tools, or other formats.
3. Selecting/analyzing: Step three involves examining the resources that were found. The
information must be determined to be useful or not useful in solving the problem. The
useful resources are selected and the inappropriate resources are rejected.
4. Organizing/synthesizing: It is in the fourth step this information which has been selected
is organized and processed so that knowledge and solutions are developed.
Examples of basic steps in this stage are:
(i) Discriminating between fact and opinion
(ii) Basing comparisons on similar characteristics
(iii) Noticing various interpretations of data
(iv) Finding more information if needed
(v) Organizing ideas and information logically.

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