UNESCO organizes an international workshop on Information Literacy in Jamaica
01-02-2006 (Kingston)
Librarians from over twenty countries of the Commonwealth gathered in Jamaica from 28 January to 2 February 2006 for an International Workshop on Information Literacy for Public Librarians across the Commonwealth.
The Workshop is being organized within the framework of UNESCO’s Information for All Programme in collaboration with Commonwealth Library Association (COMLA) and the University of the West Indies (UWI). It is the first in a series of capacity development activities relating to information literacy and is being held in the University of the West Indies Main Library.
The 35 participants are drawn from the Caribbean and from as far away as Botswana, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, Fiji.
The Workshop aims to:
Prior to the seminar, librarians from Jamaica and Uganda worked on a set of draft modules covering all areas of information literacy for discussion and amplification at the workshop. A series of post Workshop activities, such as development of a manual, resource kit, as well as workshop proceedings on multimedia CD-ROM, will be undertaken by COMLA for distribution.
Subsequent to the validation of the manual and resource kit, selected library associations across the Commonwealth will be asked to use the manual to organize workshops for the benefit of members of their Library Associations.
A small grant will be given to model associations who, in collaboration with their national library boards, will organize workshops on information literacy to cover the key areas in the manual, thereby opening the training experience to far more persons than could have attended this training workshop. The manual and training kit, when combined, will enable national libraries to develop training kits that correspond to the specific needs of local communities.
The 35 participants are drawn from the Caribbean and from as far away as Botswana, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, Fiji.
The Workshop aims to:
- help librarians to develop information literacy programmers for their users;
- equip librarians with skills to make innovative use of the web; and
- lobby and advocate for the inclusion of libraries into national plans to benefit from Universal Access Funds.
Prior to the seminar, librarians from Jamaica and Uganda worked on a set of draft modules covering all areas of information literacy for discussion and amplification at the workshop. A series of post Workshop activities, such as development of a manual, resource kit, as well as workshop proceedings on multimedia CD-ROM, will be undertaken by COMLA for distribution.
Subsequent to the validation of the manual and resource kit, selected library associations across the Commonwealth will be asked to use the manual to organize workshops for the benefit of members of their Library Associations.
A small grant will be given to model associations who, in collaboration with their national library boards, will organize workshops on information literacy to cover the key areas in the manual, thereby opening the training experience to far more persons than could have attended this training workshop. The manual and training kit, when combined, will enable national libraries to develop training kits that correspond to the specific needs of local communities.
Related themes/countries
· Jamaica
· Information and Media Literacy: News Archives 2006
· Libraries: News Archives 2006
· IFAP: News Archives 2006
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