ALIA Information Literacy Forum [infolit]

ALIA Information Literacy Forum fosters a common understanding of and advocates for information literacy within ALIA and the general community.

The Forum promotes professional development opportunities in information literacy for library and information services personnel.
This year it will continue to promote the library's role in developing information literacy, continuing involvement with the National Information Literacy Coalition, strategy planning for integration of information literacy into various sectors, and participation in relevant conferences. Communication includes a quarterly newsletter and the annual online forum. The planning committee meet bi-monthly via teleconference.

November 30 2006 the ALIA InfoLit Forum held a satellite event at the New Librarians Symposium held in Sydney. Further information about this event, including speaker presentations slides, are available here.

The ALIA Information Literacy Forum needs you!

ALIA Information Literacy Forum fosters a common understanding of and advocates for information literacy within ALIA and the general community.

The Forum promotes professional development opportunities in information literacy for library and information services personnel.

We are looking for vibrant and dynamic people to join the Forum’s executive committee. The following office bearer positions are available:

• Secretary, the group secretary undertakes the group's administration
• Treasurer, the group treasurer takes responsibility for the group's financial administration, and is the point of contact for ALIA National Office on these matters.
• Committee members, the group committee members contribute to the overall running and direction of the group

Office bearers must be current members of ALIA - either a financial personal member or the formal representatives of a financial institutional member, or a formal nominee of an institutional member's appointed representative.

Further information on the role and responsibilities of office bearers can be found at http://www.alia.org.au/members-only/governance/obg/office-bearers.html. Specific guidelines for the position of secretary and treasurer are also available

If you have a passion for information literacy and would like to contribute then please send a 100 word statement identifying the position you are interested in. The statement should also include an overview of your experience and qualifications. All statements should be sent to the group Convenor Helen Partridge by Monday May 12.

And the winner is.........!

Last year the ALIA Information Literacy Forum had its 6th birthday.

We celebrated with a 'mini makeover'. All ALIA members were invited to help rename the group.

We received over a dozen possible new names and selecting the winner was hard.

Congratulations to Suzanne Parker, from the University of Queensland, for providing the ALIA Information Literacy Forum with its new name – ALIA PATHWAYS!

Suzanne received a $50 booker voucher.

Stay tuned as we slowly move from the old to the new – over the next few weeks the group web site, elist and other systems will change to the new name.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the competition.

Useful links and information

• The ALIA information literacy kit - building literate communities [pdf 382K]
  
  
• ALIA's Statement on information literacy for all Australians
  
  

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