ALIA Pathways [infolit]

ALIA Pathways fosters a common understanding of and advocates for information literacy within ALIA and the general community.

The Group promotes professional development opportunities in information literacy for library and information services personnel.

This year it will continue to promote the library's role in developing information literacy, continuing involvement with the National Information Literacy Coalition, strategy planning for integration of information literacy into various sectors, and participation in relevant conferences. Communication includes a quarterly newsletter.. The planning committee meet monthly via teleconference.

November 30 2006 the ALIA InfoLit Forum held a satellite event at the New Librarians Symposium held in Sydney. Further information about this event, including speaker presentations slides, are available here

Name Change

Prior to 2008 the group was called ALIA Information Literacy Forum. It changed its name to ALIA Pathways through a competitive process. Thank you to Suzanne Parker for coming up with our new name – Pathways!

Useful links and information

• The ALIA information literacy kit - building literate communities [pdf 382K]
  
  
• ALIA's Statement on information literacy for all Australians
  
  

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