Best Practices

Workshops, classes, tutorials 

Seattle Public Library Computer Classes
Seattle Public's ambitious program even takes laptop computers on the road in its new travelling computer lab program. These free classes address a range of competencies from basic computing and e-mail to Internet searching and investment research. The process approach (as opposed to the traditional list of resources or pathfinders) empowers users to work and learn independently after their initial introduction. 

Introduction to Search Engines
Kansas City (MO) Public Library 

Bare Bones 101: A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web From the University of South Carolina-Beaufort Library. 
"You can zip through these lessons in no time, any time. They are very short and succinct; each can be read in a few minutes. Feel free to jump in wherever you like, skip what you don't want to read, and come back whenever you need to . . . . The information contained in the following lessons is truly "bare bones," designed to get you started in the right direction with a minimum of time and effort." Point-of-need instruction that is being linked-to by all types of libraries. 

Public Library Toolkit
From Legal Information Service to the Public, Special Interest Section, American Association of Law Libraries. ". . .a toolkit meant to help public librarians understand the process of legal research, effectively develop and use the information located within their libraries, utilize information located outside their libraries, with the end goal of helping the patron locate the legal information they need." 

Information Literacy Tutorial
a collaborative project of the libraries of the Five Colleges of Ohio consortium (Oberlin College, Denison University,Ohio Wesleyan University, Kenyon College, and The College of Wooster) 

Information literacy tutorials
A meta-list of tutorials from higher education compiled by UWill (University of Washington) 

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Reference Services 

The Information Literacy Process is a directory of online resources for each step in the information literacy process 

Internet Resources provides information literacy sites from ACRLC&RL News v. 60 (2) 1999 for academic libraries

Integrating information literacy into the curriculum 
contains Information Literacy IQ test for your institution

Health Information for the Public
National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region. Focuses on teaching the public to find quality information about their health and health-related services, rather than just providing a list of recommended sources.

A Guide to Using the Gallagher Law Library for Members of the Public
University of Washington 

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Outreach, collaboration, partnerships

AT&T Cyber-Navigators
". . .in which the Chicago Public Library, AT&T, and skilled college students, work together to help Chicagoans navigate the world of technology." 

Canadian Health Network 
Operating partners include Vancouver (B.C.) Public Library and the Prince Edward Island Health Information Resource Centre. 

Information Literacy Instructional Pipeline Partnership (ILIPP) 
a sequenced information literacy and instructional technology - based pilot program involving the UCLA College Library and its partners. Teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Venice-Westchester cluster work in teams with librarians and media specialists. 

Information Literacy Community Partnerships Toolkit
Part of ALA President Nancy Kranich's IL initiative, designed to "bring together librarians from school, academic, public and special libraries and community members/organizations to help prepare the public to utilize information efficiently and effectively." 

Multnomah County Library School Corps
". . .connects students and teachers with the critical information resources of the public library. The goal of the School Corps is to increase the information literacy of students in Multnomah County by working in partnership with local schools. 

New York Small Business Resource Center
"The New York Small Business Resource Center (SBRC) was originally started in 1997 by the New York City Partnership and Chamber of Commerce (NYCP). The Small Business Resource Center's mission is to help small business owners locate information sources and assistance programs throughout the City. In partnership with the NYCP, The New York Public Library's Science, Industry, and Business Library (SIBL) has redesigned and updated this site." 

e-tropolis Evanston
". . .a community-oriented, community-run informational place." Evanston Public Library is a partner in this venture. 

Learning Through the Library
Best Practices in K-12, ALA 

Examples of Partnerships Focussed [sic] on Information Literacy
". . .compiled from the Appendix of the Blueprint for Collaboration, a report of the AASL/ACRL Task Force on the Educational Role of Libraries and from e-mails sent as a result of a call on several listservs. The list is not comprehensive, but contains examples of different types of partnerships.

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