Paper Presented in National Seminar on Networking of Library and Information Centres of North East India in Digital Environment (NLICDE-2011) (21-23 March 2011)ORGANISED UNDER THE AEGIS OF National Library, Kolkata Ministry of Culture, Govt. of IndiaByOrganized by Central Library, National Institute of Technology Silchar

1. Dr. R N Mishra Asst. Prof. (SG) DLIS, MZU [email_address] Information Literacy for the Librarians: Issues and Challenges

8.  Dimensions of IL  Information Fluency – It concerns with capability or mastering of information competencies;  User education – It is a global approach to teach information access to users communities;  Library Instructions – It focuses on library, technical and technological skills;  Bibliographic Instructions – It relates to user training on information search and retrieval;  Information Competencies – It compounds skills and goals of information literacy;  Information skills – It focuses on information abilities; and  Development of information skills – It process for facilitating information skills.

11. Literacy to Information Literacy: A Paradigm Shift * The pool of knowledge acquired by the Library Scientists in various forms and various sources both Tacit and Explicit forms including on Internet, after scanning and filtration of the same are disseminated to the right user communities at the right time. * User access knowledge in both the ways. The acquisition of knowledge gained momentum with the application of Information Communication Technology (ICTs) and its application have drastically changed the concept of literacy. * Hence, the influence of ICT could lead to information literacy. * In a digital environment, it is going to be an indispensable tool in the hand of information manager i.e. librarians to empower user to get right information at the right time in a right way so that he can apply it for their life long capability building.

15. Dimensions of information literacy : Media Literacy, which is the ability to comprehend and create images in variety of media in order to communicate effectively ; Network Literacy i.e., the ability to proper manage , connect and organize to assess , evaluate and get information in a right way ; Web Literacy relates a subset of information literacy requires the ability to access, search , utilize , communicate and create information on the world wide web (WWW); Digital Literacy which refers an ability to assess , collect , organize , evaluate and use of digital resources and services in a effective way; Scientific Literacy : It is the knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes required for personal decision making, participation in civic and cultural affairs, and economic productivity. It also includes specific types of abilities. In the National Science Education Standards, the content standards define scientific literacy Visual Literacy: It is the ability to understand and use images. This includes thinking, learning, and expressing oneself in terms of image. Photographs, cartoons, line drawings, diagrams, concept maps, and other visual representations are all important in visual literacy ; and Critical literacy i.e., the ability to evaluate critically the human, intellectual and social strengths, limits, benefits and costs of IT.

16. Schematic view of dimensions of Information Literacy

17. SEGMENTS OF IL Information Literacy Student Skills and Strategies Student outcome Curriculum and Teaching Design A problem-solving process requires exploring and questioning, defining an information need , creating a plan to locate relevant information, reading, the medium, synthesizing information to create knowledge, applying insight to personal, social or global contexts to create wisdom, self-evaluating the process and the product The student uses habits of mind: It recognizes problems, formulates hypotheses, make good predictions, asks important questions, locates, analyzes, interprets, evaluates and records information and ideas, assume multiple stances, apply heuristic strategies, develop complex understanding, extend understanding through creative models, apply understanding to new problems The student is a learner, independent , Disciplined, painful self-motivated , met cognitive, flexible adventurous The learning design provides authentic contexts, simulations, real applications and problems, reiterative opportunities for unique performances, ongoing assessments, longitudinal rubrics, integration of information literacy, creative roles for teachers, collegiality culture of innovation

19. Schematic view of role of Information Literacy Librarian Laboratory Teaching Knowledge Manager Leadership Communication Capability Building Life - Long Learning Resource Evaluation Literacy Planning Online Reference User Orientation Search Strategy User Awareness Programme Advocacy Collaborative Teaching Curriculum Construction Faculty – Librarian Collaboration INFORMATION LITERACY LIBRARIAN

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