[Libs-Or] Information Literacy Education: A National Overview

[Katie Anderson]

Webinar Title: Information Literacy Education: A National Overview 
Speaker: Dr. Lisa Stock, Dr. Jean Donham and Dane Ward 
Cost: Free to Library Staff of Oregon Libraries
Date: Friday, March 12, 2010 

Description: 
When President Barack Obama declared October 2009 as National Information Literacy Awareness Month, Information Literacy received national attention.  The declaration stated:  "In addition to the basic skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic, it is equally important that our students are given the tools required to take advantage of the information available to them."  He asked "people of the United States to recognize the important role that information plays in our daily lives, and appreciate the need for a greater understanding of its impact." 
In this context, Lisa Stock, Dean of Learning Resources at College of DuPage, Jean Donham, Associate Professor in School Library Studies at The University of Northern Iowa Division of School Library Studies and the Department of Curriculum & Instruction and Dane Ward, Dean of Public Services at Illinois State University's Milner Library, will give a background briefing on the working standards and assessments for national literacy and open a dialog on what librarians can do to strengthen efforts to encourage and build information literacy efforts not only in your own library, but in concert with your colleagues around the country. 
This webcast is 90 minutes in length. Visit http://bcr.org/training/partners/teleconferences/index.html for additional information or contact BCR directly at info at bcr.org

Location: 
View the training via webcast from your personal computer or a computer you can access easily. Or you may attend a group session at a location near you. Please review the host sites http://bcr.org/training/partners/teleconferences/sites/oregon/literacy.html to find a convenient location. (Check back later if no Oregon sites are listed initially)

How to Register:
Register online at http://bcr.org/training/partners/teleconferences/registration.html - registration is FREE.

Background Information:
This webcast is being made available free of charge to staff from Oregon libraries through a statewide membership to BCR (http://www.bcr.org), paid for by the Oregon State Library with LSTA funds.

An online archive of this presentation will be available for up to 30 days after the original broadcast date. Please visit http://bcr.org/training/partners/teleconferences/index.html for more information.

A DVD of this webcast should be available for you to check out from the State Library about one month after the date it was broadcast. DVDs of previous Soaring to Excellence webcasts are available at State Library (http://catalog.willamette.edu/screens/opacmenu_s2.html) through your library's establish interlibrary loan process. Learn more about these DVDs and other Library and Information Science professional resources at our blog (http://osl-lis.blogspot.com/). 


Katie Anderson, Library Development Services
* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *
Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301
katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528
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