Radomski, Natalie (1999). Implementing Information Literacy: Themes Issues and Future Direction, Support Centre for Effective Learning and Teaching and Information Services Branch, University of Ballarat, Ballarat, Australia.

Reports a substantial and significant project targetted at curriculum integration of information literacy across Ballarat University. In his Foreword to the book Professor Phil Candy writes " This publication is the result of a year long project, originally funded through a grant from the former Committee for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. It demonstrates the University's commitment to information literacy as a major organising feature of its academic work and its commitment to the community."

Spitzer, Kathleen et al. (1998). Information Literacy: Essential Skills for the Information Age, ERIC Clearning house on Information & Technology, Syracuse, New York.

Patricia Breivik describes this monograph as the definitive publication on information literacy to date. Attempts a comprehensive review of the literature, particularly that emanating from the United States. Extensive examples of information literacy education in practice. Covers schools and higher education and the workplace.

Breivik, Patricia Senn (1998). Student Learning in the Information Age, American Council on Education, Higher Education Series, ORYX Press.

This volume examines the nature of information literacy, its relationship with resource-based learning, and strategies for bringing information literacy into higher education curriculum. It serves as a general overview to newcomers to the field, as a manual for educators wishing to implement IL programs, and as an advocacy tool for university adminstrators and lecturers alike. Essential Reading.

Booker, Di (Ed) (1998). Information Literacy: the Professional Issue. Proceedings of the 3rd National Australian Information Literacy Conference, Canberra, 8-9 Dec 1997, Adelaide, University of South Australia Library.

This volume focusses on information literacy in the workplace, bringing together papers describing research and educational initiatives in a number of countries including South Africa, New Zealand, United States and Singapore.

Bruce, Christine (1997). The Seven Faces of Information Literacy, Adelaide, AUSLIB Press.

The monograph is available from the publisher AUSLIB Press : auslib@mail.camtech.net.au

Candy, Phil; Crebert, Gay, and O'Leary, Jane (1994). Developing Lifelong Learners Through

This is an excellent title examining developments in information literacy in higher education, primarily in the United States. Chapters deal with accreditation of courses, influencing campus culture, barriers to information literacy and how to deal with them. See particularly:

Stanford, Lois (1992). `An academician's journey into information literacy' pp. 37-44.
Porter, J.R. (1992). `Natural partners: resource-based and integrative learning pp. 45-54.

The first of what will hopefully be a multi-volume set of titles examining the application of the concept of information literacy in different Australian settings. There are a number of contributions from higher educators in sections headed `General issues', ` Policy and Promotion', `Information Literacy Programs', and `Staff Development'. Of special interest is an article by Richard Owen looking at the influence of information literacy amongst a group of people wanting to stop the building of the Hindmarsh Bridge.

Bruce, Christine (1994a). Supervising literature reviews, in Quality in Postgraduate Education,

Bruce, Christine (1994b). `Research students' early experiences of the dissertation literature review',

Bruce, C.S (1992). Developing Students' Library Research Skills, HERDSA Green Guide No 13.,

Bruce, C.S. and Candy, P.C. (1995). Developing information literate graduates: prompts for good

Candy, Philip C. (1991). Self-Direction for Lifelong Learning, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco.

Hawes, Douglas K. (1994). `Information literacy and the business schools', Journal of Education for

Kanter, J. (1995). `Computer-information literacy for senior management', Information Strategy: the

McClure, Charles (1994). Network literacy: a role for libraries? Information Technology and

Petterson, Rune (1994). `Learning in the information age', Educational Technology, Research and

Wurman, R.S. (1989). Information Anxiety, Doubleday, New York.

Much of the writing on information literacy is presently in the literature of library and information science. A search on information literacy or information skills in your favourite indexing service. eg. Engineering index, CINAHL is sure to reveal current contributions in your discipline. There are also many World Wide Web sites which are being set up by libraries to teach the use of a range of information sources.

Prepared by Christine Bruce, School of Information Systems, Last Updated April 1999.

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