Information Literacy Redux: Whose Job Is It?

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ELI Web Seminar, July 16, 2007 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

Information Literacy Redux: Whose Job Is It?

Special Guest

Cerise Oberman
Dean of Library and Information Services
SUNY College at Plattsburgh

Cerise Oberman is dean of library and information services at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Oberman is actively involved in a number of national professional associations as well as local community organizations. She has published and presented nationally and internationally on issues of information literacy for the past 30 years. The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) awarded Oberman the Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award in 1994. In 1995, she was named the Lillian Moore Bradshaw Visiting Professor at the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Women’s University. Oberman was also a founding member of the ACRL Institute of Information Literacy and was promoted to the rank of SUNY Distinguished Librarian in 2001.

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Summary

Diana Oblinger, vice president of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), will moderate this Web seminar with Cerise Oberman in which she discusses key aspects of information literacy.

Information literacy has been a key focus for many academic library programs for over 30 years. Today, information literacy is being revisited as an institutional imperative. This Web seminar will explore the forces leading to this renewed interest as well as the basic concepts of information literacy and key elements of successful programs. It will also answer the question of whose role it is to design and deliver an information literacy program.

Additional Resources

ELI Net Savvy White Paper Series

Ensuring the Net Generation Is Net Savvy, September 2006
Getting Past Google: Perspectives on Information Literacy from the Millennial Mind, September 2006
How Choice, Co-Creation, and Culture Are Changing What It Means to Be Net Savvy, October 2006

Podcast of "Youth, Technology, and Privacy," ELI 2007 Annual Meeting General Session
Podcast of "Confessions of a Net Gen Learner," ELI 2007 Annual Meeting Featured Session

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