Information Literacy's Origins

While a remarkably dry topic, here is Wikipedia's two bits as provided by the general public as a slight enlightening into what exactly Information Literacy is, and from whence it came.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_literacy
While initiatives are varied in their inception, approach and overall impact worldwide, an effort is being made to bring some inertia to the cause through organization. InfoLit Global is putting pieces in place to get the world informed, doubly difficult considering varied access to information and how poorly translation can work out. Regardless, I salute their gargantuan undertaking and wish them all the best. Here is their website.

http://www.infolitglobal.info/en/

As I mentioned in my first post, President Barack Obama proclaimed October 2009 Information Literacy Awareness month. Inevitably, being discerning, rational and critical patrons of the information superhighway we should wonder if this is indeed an issue close to the President's heart, or if his speechwriter just has a phenominal grasp of the concept behind it all. Either way I really like the verbal imagery used. Using verified sources to: "separate truth from fiction and signal from noise" Good to know he's not just recieving nobel prizes all the time.

If you follow the link, you can click on each puzzle piece for more information, this is a good beginners guide.

http://dept.sccd.ctc.edu/cclib/Research_Help/rlcpuzzle.asp

This Video talks about students being frustrated with all the information out there, what to use, and how to use it. Many of us have probably been able to relate at some point to this.

Here is a link to a game on The University of North Carolina Greensboro website, that tests how much you know about information literacy! http://library.uncg.edu/game/

chart to help step by step approach for locating and assessing information

This chart shows us the step by step approach to locate, to use, to assess and to evaluate the information. This chart helps us to keep the certain targets in our mind while looking and using the information. For example, we should be very specific for the kind of information, we require in our search.