ILA committe on Information Literacy

ILA Board would like to know the following:

• Charge for the committee
• composition and size (academic, public & school)
• Chair and vice chair (names)

Committee Charge

The Information Literacy committee is charged with the following:

• Provide leadership for information literacy initiatives in Idaho state that collaborate accross school, academic and public library settings
• Promote information literacy concerns and resources -  Rick

Composition & Size

Academic, public and school librarians...

Rick Stoddart, Sara Seely - Albertson's Library, BSU

Shirley Biladeau, Idaho Commission for Libraries

Glynda Pfliger, Pam Juel, Penni Cyr, Susan Nickel Teacher Librarians

???, Public Librarians

Chair & Vice Chair

Forthcoming...  Nominations?

I really think the chair should be a school librarian at least in this phase of the ICT standards - Rick

2009 Goals:

Facilitate and develop a model of the scope and sequence for at least the benchmark grades (8, 12, Freshman) - Rick

Objectives:

Matters List:

Send articles, reminders, resource links via the ILA listserv

Develop resources and tools that promot support information literacy education for Idaho students (Sara)

Work on outreach to K-12 teachers

Outreach to Schools of Ed, instruction librarians at the college level

Hold aloft the torch of information literacy to illuminate the eyes of every students, life-long learner, and informed citizen of Idaho