• Definition from the Directory of Online Resources for Information Literacy (DORIL).
• Benchmarks for Information Literacy from the Washington Library Media Association (WLMA) conveniently divided into, hey whattya know, six simple steps.
• Understanding the World of Information from The Library, La Sierra University, Riverside, California. My library degree in nine pages of text.
• What is Media Literacy?, from The Media Awareness Network (Canada), includes What is Media Literacy? / Why Teach Media Literacy? / Approaches to Media Education / A Media Literacy Framework / Key Concepts / Making it Happen / Evaluation.
• Information Literacy from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Don't miss the page on How to Learn More for teachers and librarians.

• Take TILT (Texas Information Literacy Tutorial), an interactive tutorial available from The University of Texas System Digital Library.
• How to Critically Analyze Information Sources, a tutorial from Reference Services Division, Olin*Kroch*Uris Libraries, Cornell University Library.
• Information Literacy and the Net, series of short modules for conducting training from the Bellingham Schools, Bellingham, Washington. Module One deals with information literacy. Subsequent modules progress into types of literacies, learning styles, information gathering and sorting. Module Sixteen culminates with relating an information literacy lesson to school district policy.
• Information Literacy: Guidelines for Kindergarten through Grade 12 from Information Literacy Task Force, Region VII, California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP). Provides bulleted strategies for implementing information literacy.
• The New "HomeWork" from From Now On, Vol 6, No 5, February 1997, provides several activities for exploring the world of information problem solving and challenging students to think.
• The Big6^tm which was developed by Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz. Many resources are available at this website including supplemental materials such as books and videos, and free lessons contributed by the many dedicated Big6^tm users.
• The Nuts and Bolts of Big6^tm is based on a website created back in 1996 in conjunction with Mike Eisenberg. The overview and page on using the Big6^TM has remained relatively unchanged and is based directly on the work of Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz. The site also includes the Nuts and Bolts of Big6^tm Game and a section with Resources and Activities includes links and activities that you might find useful.

• The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) provides a variety of free online courses on their ICONnect website. Sign up for these classes or peruse the archive to find gems such as Lesson 2: Copyright, from the K-12 Internet Issues section.
• The ultimate copyright source, The United States Copyright Office. Many of the resources are in the Adobe PDF format for easy downloading. To avoid downloading information you don't really want, the FAQ page is probably the best place to start.
• Crash Course in Copyright from the University of Texas. Discusses fair use, ownership, multimedia, copyright in the digital library, licensing, and online presentations.
• Here's a comprehensive Search Tools Chart created and updated frequently by Carole Leita for the InfoPeople Project.
• How to Evaluate Internet Resources from the InfoPeople.
• Here's a Big6 evaluation template that might come in handy! Print this one, or download the pdf version.

First posted 1996.
Last modified Monday November 26, 2007

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