Call for Proposals
Georgia Conference on Information Literacy
Georgia Southern University
October 8-9, 2004
The Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL) recently proposed
a set of Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education
(http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilcomstan.html), defined by them as the ability to:
* Determine the extent of information needed
* Access the needed information effectively and efficiently
* Evaluate information and its sources critically
* Incorporate selected information into one's knowledge base
* Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose
* Understand the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the
use of information, and access and use information ethically and legally
The impact of developments in technology, as recognized by the ACRL, not
only has increased the amount of information that researchers must deal
with but necessitates teaching and learning new skills for dealing with the
"info glut."
Jointly hosted by the Zach S. Henderson Library, the Department of Writing
and Linguistics, and the College of Education at Georgia Southern
University, the Georgia Conference on Information Literacy seeks proposals
for workshops and presentations that address the following themes and issues:
+ Strategies for teaching information literacy to students
and/or faculty across the curriculum
+ Empirical studies on the effect of information literacy
initiatives on student retention and/or learning
+ Learning communities and information literacy
+ Creating teaching partnerships between reference
librarians and instructors
+ What constitutes information literacy in the 21st century
+ Encouraging lifelong learning through information literacy
+ Technological developments and their impact on student
research
+ Strategies for evaluating sources
+ Information Literacy and the Sciences
+ Computers in the writing classroom: how the research
paper has changed
+ Developing learning outcomes for information and
technological competence
+ Preparing students for the modern University
The Georgia Conference on Information Literacy will offer both hands-on
workshops and concurrent sessions for K-12, community college, and
university librarians and educators, covering a broad spectrum of needs and
proficiencies with twenty-first century information literacy skills and
issues, from those seeking how-to information to those wishing to
contribute to the growing body of scholarship. The conference will be of
particular value in helping to achieve the goals of the University System
of Georgia's P-16 Inititative (http://www.gasou.edu/docs/mission.html) by
ensuring that educators and librarians in the state are familiar with the
important skills and issues in Information Literacy that students must
learn to succeed in today's global information society.
Submit proposals for workshops and presentations online or send to:
Rebecca Ziegler
Zach S. Henderson Library
Georgia Southern University
Box 8074
Statesboro, GA 30460
or via email (in Word or WordPerfect format for IBM-pc) to:
solibrz@gsvms2.cc.gasou.edu
Proposals must be received by no later than December 15, 2003.
For more information, contact Bede Mitchell, Dean of the Library, at
wbmitch@gasou.edu or Janice Walker, Dept. of Writing and Linguistics, at
jwalker@gasou.edu.
Deborah P. Champion
Program Specialist for College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Continuing Education and Public Service
Georgia Southern University
PO Box 8124
Statesboro, GA 30460
Telephone 912-681-5555
FAX 912-681-0306
dchampion@gasou.edu
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