Please note that the CRL reading listed below is NOT in the public domain! We make this available for a limited time under Fair Use guidelines, only for Symposium participants. If you have this journal in your library, we recommend you read it there!

To access this and the ACRL document, you must have a user name and password (which has been sent to Symposium participants). The ACRL Best Practices Initiative document is a draft, and is made available here courtesy of Tom Kirk (Earlham College).

To prepare for the symposium, the ACS IF Coordinating Committee suggests the following readings:

ACRL Best Practices Initiative: Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices (5th Edition) | Download this MS Word document (password access only!)

Being Fluent with Information Technology, edited by the Committee on Information Technology Literacy of the National Research Council, National Acadamy Press, 1999. Full text freely available on-line at http://www.nap.edu/books/030906399X/html/

"Assessing Information Literacy among Undergraduates: A Discussion of the Literature and the University of California-Berkeley Assessment Experience,"College and Research Libraries, Jan. 2001, pp. 71-85. Click here to read on-line (password access only!) PDF format

For additional readings, we also suggest you look at the ACS IF links page (and add your own links if you know of sites we should all be aware of)