International Summer School on the Digital Library 2001, Digital Libraries and the Changing World of Education

Thursday morning, 9 August 2001

Information literacy

9:00 hrs Information literacy: History, assessment and breaking developments (QZ 105)

  • general introduction to information literacy as a critical learning skill
  • current developments in the United States
Pat Davitt Maughan
User Research Coordinator, University of California, Berkeley, The Teaching Library, USA

10:30 hrs Coffee/tea (Foyer building Q)

11:00 hrs TILT as a model of interactive, online library instruction (QZ 105)

  • the TILT interactive web based module for teaching students about information literacy
  • history, goals, project setup, working with professionals from different disciplines
  • costs, lessons learned
  • future of TILT as 'open source'
  • demonstration
Elizabeth Dupuis
Head, Digital Information Literacy Office, University of Texas at Austin, USA

12:30 hrs Lunch (Restaurant "Tilbury" on campus)

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Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources
Ticer, PO Box 4191, 5004 JD Tilburg, The Netherlands,
telephone +31-13-466 83 10, telefax +31-13-466 83 83, e-mail ticer@uvt.nl,
Last updated 2 November 2001.