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UCLA Library Research Guides
http://guides.library.ucla.edu/
UCLA Library Research Guides
Though these guides can be viewed by anyone on the web, many of the resources they link to are subscription sources available only to UCLA IP addresses. UCLA students, faculty, and staff

Take Information Literacy to the Next Stage
http://www.govtech.com/gt/743612
Public Libraries Take Information Literacy to the Next Stage
As the digital age swept the country, it was a question as to whether libraries could survive the new millennium.
In modern societies, where the Internet puts information at your fingertips, and you can download books with the click of a mouse, would public libraries still be relevant?

Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/characteristics.htm
Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices: A Guideline
The Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices: A Guideline attempts to articulate elements of exemplary information literacy programs for undergraduate students at four-year and two-year institutions.

The New Literacy
http://www.techlearning.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=47102021
The New Literacy
A fundamental question for everyone involved in education ?administrators, teachers, parents, and students ?in this time of rapid change is, "What do students really need to be learning today in order to be ready for an unpredictable future?"
Whether we like it or not, with the information age comes a whole new set of basic skills. Following, we will take a look at how the traditional 3 Rs, naturally and out of necessity, evolve into 4 Es to define literacy in an increasingly, and soon to be exclusively, digital and networked world.

Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/informationpower/InformationLiteracyStandards_final.pdf
Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning : Standards and Indicators
Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning provides a conceptual framework and broad guidelines for describing the information- literate student. The standards consist of three categories, nine standards, and twenty-nine indicators. The core learning outcomes that are most directly related to the services provided by school library media programs are found in the three standards and thirteen indicators in the ?nformation literacy?category. The

Too much information
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/10/1068329472603.html
Too much information
"One has to draw the distinction between knowledge and information," Greenfield told the ABC's Hamish Robertson. "We are in a time when people can sit in front of the screen and get bombarded with facts and sometimes that's confused for education. But I think that what we owe it to our young people to do is to help them ask questions."