Information literacy 1973-2002: a selected literature review - Bibliography

Library Trends, Fall, 2002 by Hannelore B. Rader

China

Librarians at Tshinghua University in Beijing are teaching many credit courses to help their students in all disciplines gain valuable information and technology skills to enable them to do better research and to use information more effectively (http://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/eng/index.htm).

Germany

The University of Heidelberg librarians have developed an information skills instruction program to teach their students a variety of information use skills (http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/allg/schulung.html).

United Kingdom

The Society of College, National, and University Libraries (SCONUL) in the UK and Ireland is working on improving the quality of libraries and extending the influence of libraries in higher education. As part of these initiatives they have developed a position paper on "Information skills in higher education" (http://www.sconul.ac.uk/).

The University of Glasgow librarians have developed tutorials and training courses for their students to teach library, information and Internet skills (http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/Training/index.html).

SELECTED INFORMATION LITERACY PUBLICATIONS 1973-2002

The following publications have been selected from the past three decades to demonstrate trends related to library user instruction and information literacy predominantly in the United States. The publications are listed in chronological order.

Kirk, T. (1973). Acaxtonic library bibliographic instruction: Status report--1972. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries. (ED 072 823).

This is a summary of collected information about bibliographic instruction programs in 174 academic libraries in the Untied States. The report is divided into formal courses, course-related library instruction, individualized library instruction and miscellaneous types of user instruction and orientation.

Lubans, J., Jr. (Ed.). (1974). Educating the library user. New York: R.R. Bowker.

This comprehensive collection of essays, case studies and research reports is related to instructing library users and nonusers in school, public, and academic library settings. Includes information from overviews and surveys to program descriptions and research.

Beeler, R.J. (1975). Evaluating library use instruction. Ann Arbor, MI: Pierian Press.

This volume summarizes papers from a conference held December 13-14, 1973 at the University of Denver on evaluating bibliographic instruction. The content of the papers reviews research and psychological aspects of evaluating bibliographic instruction. Included also are summaries of some case studies.

Holley, E. G. (1976). Academic libraries in 1876. College and Research Libraries, 37, 15-47.

Points out that for more than a hundred years academic librarians were concerned about teaching users how to use library collections, that librarians are educators and that the library should be the focus of instruction on the campus.

Guidelines for bibliographic instruction in academic libraries. (1977). College and Research Libraries News, 38, 92.

Provides the first guidelines for bibliographic instruction in academic libraries, developed by the ACRL Bibliographic Instruction Task Force and approved by ACRL in 1977.