INFORMATION LITERACY : COUNTRIES: INDIA: Information Literacy Programme in Colleges
Information Literacy Programme in Colleges The Hindu Wednesday, Oct 04, 2006 G.Mahadevan <http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/04/stories/2006100409900400.htm> To bridge awareness divide between urban, rural areas Aims at bridging the awareness divide between colleges in the urban and rural areas THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kerala is preparing to place before the Syndicate a proposal for implementing an information literacy programme in colleges affiliated to the university. The programme aims at bridging the awareness divide between colleges in the urban and rural areas and to enable students in the latter category of colleges access subject-related information across a variety of formats. The Information Literacy package will aim to provide students the basic information about IT tools, to introduce to them electronic sources of information, train them in searching for information stored in a multi-media format, train students to use computer-aided instruction packages, introduce various online search programmes and methods to identify sources of information, including subject gateways, in the Internet and train students to use the `Online Public Access Catalogue. The project proposal drawn up by head of the department G. Devarajan points out that the lack of awareness among students in colleges located in rural areas would lead to under utilisation of information resources even if IT tools are made available in such colleges. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct an information literacy programme one that includes visual literacy, media literacy, computer literacy, digital literacy and network literacy among such students, the project document says. ---------------------------------------- The complete article may be read at the URL above. Sincerely, David Dillard Temple University (215) 204 - 4584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Net-Gold <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold> <http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html> General Internet & Print Resources <http://library.temple.edu/articles/subject_guides/general.jsp> <http://www.learningis4everyone.org/> <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html> Digital Divide Network <http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/jwne> Educator-Gold <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Educator-Gold/> _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
