Conference Session 94

The importance of information literacy for multicultural populations: needs, strategies, programs, and the role of libraries

Information Literacy Section with Library Services to Multicultural Populations and the Special Interest Group on Indigenous Matters

Congress track 2: Policy, strategy and advocacy.

15 August 2011 09:30 - 12:45 | Room: Exhibition Hall A

• Indigenous cultural models in information literacy delivery including programmes for Maori and Pasifika students at New Zealand universities
  LORIENE ROY and VIRGINIA LUEHRSEN (School of Information, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA) and SPENCER LILLEY (Massey University Library, Palmerston North, New Zealand)
• Information literacy is a two-way street
  DENICE ADKINS and BROOKE SHANNON (University of Missouri, Columbia, USA)
• Strengthening social inclusion in multicultural societies through information literacy
  ESIN SULTAN OGUZ and SERAP KURBANOGLU (Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey)
• Information literacy in a multicultural society: the role of libraries in present Bulgaria
  Translations: [Français]
  EVGENIYA RUSINOVA and GEORGETA NAZARSKA (State University of Library Studies and IT, Sofia, Bulgaria)
• Creating learning commons: a study of University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus experience of information literacy competencies integration into the university curriculum
  SNEJANKA PENKOVA and LOURDES CÁDIZ (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico)
• "Usted y su biblioteca" (You and your library): an information literacy program for adult ESL students
  Translations: [Français]
  MILLY C. LUGO (Santa Ana Public Library, Santa Ana, CA, USA)
• Indigenous Rarámuris as university students: challenges for the information literacy
  Translations: [Español]
  JAVIER TARANGO and PATRICIA MURGUÍA (Autonomous University of Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico) and JESUS LAU (Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, Mexico)
• Digital training supports the social integration of immigrants in Norway
  TORD HØIVIK (Library and Information Science, Oslo University College, Oslo, Norway)