Information Literacy

The Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS), India, in collaboration with UNESCO, has just launched a six-month project entitled Interactive E-Learning Portal on Information Literacy Competency Development Skills for South Asia.
The project aims to raise awareness and enhance information literacy competency skills of laymen as well as information professionals and educators. Its objectives are fully in line with UNESCO’s mandate to bridge the digital divide and UNESCO’s vision of Knowledge Societies.

This project has its genesis in recommendations of a UNESCO supported Workshop on Information Literacy Competency Development for Information Professionals and Special Educators organized in November 2006 by SALIS in Chennai, India, and subsequent Information Literacy sensitization workshops held in Delhi and Nagpur in December 2006.

The e-learning portal will cover a number of self-learning modules, such as:

	1. Information Communication Technology (ICT)
	2. Information Literacy
	3. Information Literacy Models and Standards
	4. Lifelong Learning and Development of Life Skills
	5. Information Literacy Assessment
	6. Information Services for the Disabled People
	7. Freedom of Information/Right to Information
	8. Sample Information Literacy Programmes for
	- School Library - College/University Library - Special Library - Public Library - Community Information Centres