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ACM Information Literacy Project Conference on Information Literacy and Liberal Education March 9-11, 2001 at Lake Forest College |
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Over 100 participants gathered at Lake Forest College on March 9-11, 2001 to engage in discussions and presentations on topics of interest to librarians, faculty and instructional technologists. In her keynote address, Mary Jane Petrowski, Head of Library Instruction at Colgate University, spoke of the need for various campus groups to come together and seek common ground on issues surrounding information literacy. While information literacy and information technology are not the same thing, the conference implicitly acknowledged their relationship. Faculty representatives from the traditional academic divisions spoke about how electronic information could be used in the classroom to promote information literacy as it was traditionally understood, and how the advent of technology has transformed student learning styles and what it means to be information literate in the 21st century. Sessions were devoted to both concrete issues, such as the future of ACM libraries, and to more esoteric discussions about the conditions necessary to implement a strategic plan for information literacy on a college campus. The conference was sponsored by ACM and supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. |
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