1. Information Literacy Education
School and Public Libraries Collaboration
Maria José Vitorino
(Portugal)
mariajosevitorino@gmail.com
EMMILE in libraries (and beyond)
European Meeting on Media and Information Literacy Education
Incorporating
“IASL Regional Meeting – Europe”
“IFLA SLRC Section Midterm Meeting”
“IASL-IFLA Joint Steering Committee Meeting”
Milano (Italia)
February 27-29, 2012

2. IL, a truly shared goal for libraries
all life long
Literacy concept – are we thinking about the same?
School and public libraries
(1) they share common goals
(2) they need to work together to reach them on time
(3) they really CAN do it
Recipes? Sorry, you must create your own.

3. Sharing Visions and Mission
statements
Talk about it, find common senses
and put it on written
words, logos...
Don´t delay too much
Later, you can always re-write it

4. Once upon a time, in Portugal...
➲ RLP, 1986, Public Libraries Network Program start
➲ RBE, 1996, SL National Network Program start
➲ PNL (National Reading Plan), coordenated with RBE,
started in 2005
➲ 2012:
 Over 2200 SL integrated in RBE, and keep on growing
 National SL Network Advisers and Guidelines
 Web-tools, training, commmunication
 Communities of Practice (including local public librarians
and teacher librarians, sometimes principals, other
teachers and non-teaching staff of basic and secondary
schools)
 Local Network Portals

6. Frequently Asked Questions
➲ Joint use libraries, are they really possible? It can be done,
but it is not easy to do it...
➲ Hybrid libraries... how to deal with the digital dimension?
➲ Professionals – are all of them interested in the same kind
of library services? How are they prepared or preparing
themselves? How to get common goals and shared
visions?
➲ Collection management issues – cataloguing, weeding,
lending...
➲ Connections – mailing-list, Moodle, social networking
➲ What about politics – local, regional, national level?
➲ Who benefits, and when? Does it shows before elections
day?
➲ Who is paying costs? What for?
➲ Who leads? School Principal´s role is.... ?

7. Let's take a look on the web
Portugal Libraries Map – school and public libraries

8. Pick any library and know more

9. Let's take a look – 7 links
➲ Pombal http://rbp.cm-pombal.pt/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=155
➲ Esposende http://www.cm-esposende.pt/rede/
➲ Lousã http://62.48.195.170/rblousa/index.php
➲ Braga http://rbb.blcs.pt/default.aspx
➲ Mafra http://www.cm-mafra.pt/rbem/parceiros.asp
➲ São Brás de Alportel http://sba-bibliotecas.pt/
➲ Tábua http://rbtb.cm-tabua.pt/
Everywhere, real people is actually DOING it (image from
Lisboa, 2011: support staff from RBE and BLX – Lisbon
Public Libraries)!

10. Are we listening?
Portugal needs to pay much more attention to literacy.
[Analyses of the] impact of literacy on Portugal’s
economic performance over the past 50 years leaves
little doubt that the nation has paid a significant price for
failing to increase the supply of literacy skill available to
the economy.
The estimate of GDP per capita forgone represents a huge
reduction in the standard of living available to the vast
majority of Portuguese citizens.

11. Are we paying attention?
Correcting this situation will require a concerted and
coordinated effort, one that links educational, social and
economic policies in a way that increases the supply of
literacy skill leaving the school system; reduces the
number of low skilled adults through the provision of
remedial instruction; increases the knowledge and skill
intensity of employment and the demand for literacy use
at work; improves the efficiency of the markets that
allocate literacy skill; and increases the social and
economic demand for literacy skill acquisition and use.

12. Are we acting in the right direction?
A failure to undertake such concerted and coordinated
action will inevitably lead to below-potential rates of
economic growth and standards of living.
Data Angel (international consultants)
Economic dimension of literacy
2009

13. Literacy & Development
By highlighting the status of literacy in today's world and reviewing
the international commitment on literacy previous decades, we
encourage everyone to take the challenge seriously. By showing
how the concept of literacy has evolved and how it connects with
broad areas of social development, we ask everyone to consider
how literacy may be linked to their own engagement into
development.
Makuura,
presenting Unesco Literacy Decade (2003-2013)

14. EMMILE, 2012
For this challenge, we'll need libraries, connected and
motivated on a Digital, Media and Information Literacy
focused strategy, cooperating to increase resources and
adjust programs to the ultimate source of meaning, futures
citizens and their development skills.
“EMMILE in libraries” proposals could not be more actual
Milan 2012 is meant to be one more step in the right direction.
Thanks you all for sharing this step
Shall we dance?.
mariajosevitorino@gmail.com

15. credits
Thanks for support
St. Van Huit Da Vinci
RBE www.rbe.min-edu.pt
BAD www.apbad.pt
THEKA www.theka.org
ENSIL (by Lourense Das) www.ensil.eu
EMMILE (by Luisa Marcquardt) www.emmile.wordpress.com