Working Groups

Information Education and Information Literacy Working Group

The working group’s members have agreed on the following objectives:

• Support those activities of academic libraries in the area of information education that would contribute to improving the level of information literacy among students and the whole community.
• Provide background and support for libraries, starting with information education, and help them design their instruction program.
• Share experiences designing, implementing and practising information education in all formats (library tours, freshmen introductory seminars, workshops, courses, tutorials, etc. – in both face-to-face and online versions).
• Contribute to implementing information education in various formats into the curriculum and provide authority and expertise to support libraries negotiating with university administrators.
• Organize cooperation in designing online tutorials that will serve as a learning tool for patrons and as a resource of inspiration and model example for other libraries.
• Provide an update regularly and overview of theoretical issues related to information literacy and information education, as well as introduce best practices in information education in the Czech Republic and abroad to the academic librarian community.