A presentation given at the D.B. Weldon library, University of Western Ontario.

1. key elements in the design of an info lit strategy

4. • focused on assignments
• introduction to library resources, hard copy
and electronic
• scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines
• citations, refworks, plagiarism
• reference service, subject specialists
•

5. Vision
+
Curiosity

7. “recognize when
information is needed
and have the ability to
locate, evaluate and use
effectively the needed
information.”
Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher
Education. ALA

8. Lifelong Learning

12. Evaluate
Resources

13. The library
is a
growing organism

15. Curiosity

16. The only constant
is change

22. The only constant
is change

24. A topic is not a domain with edges.
_________
It is how passion focuses itself.
David Weinberger

25. Inter-disciplinary
research

31. • Public Libraries as a resource
• Inter-library Loan
• e.g. New York Public Library:
oral histories, memory books

37. It’s up to us
to put the theory of information literacy
into our own practice.
To embrace Lifelong Learning
and provide the best service possible

40. “An original idea. That
can’t be too hard. The
Library must be full of
them.”
Stephen Fry

41. Lifelong Learning