1. Teaching Information Literacy for Inquiry-Based Learning
2. http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID = 19636&URL_DO = DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION = 201.html The Alexandria Proclamation on Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning, Bibliotheca Alexandrina (6-9 November 2005). Among other things, this called for inclusion of information literacy in initial and continuing education throughout key economic sectors, government policy making and administration
3. and recognition of IL as a key element in accreditation of education and training programmes. http://archive.ifla.org/III/wsis/BeaconInfSoc.html Typology of Award Outcomes & Indicative Descriptions of Levels (Staffordshire University, 2008), Table 1. Students must have the ability to "Deploy accurately established techniques of analysis and enquiry and initiate and carry out projects within Law (as their field of study) - and use and evaluate use of Information Literacy, including the ethical use of information"
4. Full title: 'Enquiring Minds: Strategies for the Design and Use of Enquiry Tasks that Promote the Law Teaching-Research Nexus, Cross-Disciplinary and Comparative Law Studies, and Effective Deployment and Assessment of Students' Enquiry Skills at Level 3/H Level. The project was preceded by a pilot called People, Diversity & Work - a research project undertaken in 2007 by a team of five 3rd Year Law, Advice Studies, and Broadcast Journalism students commissioned by the organisers of the Empowerment, Work & Welfare conference in November 2007 (and assisted by the TUC, Department of Business and Enterprise, Institute of Employment Rights, Disability Alliance, and East London Mosque). The project provided a 'youth perspective' on the empowerment, employment, and retention policies being developed by the government at the time, and debated by the conference Chris Harrison, Alison Pope, Keith Puttick & Geoff Walton Enquiring Minds & Information Literacy: Infiltrating the Curriculum and Challenging the Assessment Agenda: Association of Law Teachers' 2010 Annual Conference Legal Education: Making the Difference (29-31 March 2010, Clare College Cambridge accessible at: http://www.staffs.ac.uk/research/research_informed_teaching/current_projects/#keith Committee of Inquiry into the Impact on Higher Education of Students' Widespread Use of Web 2.0 Technologies: Final Report & Conclusions http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/generalpublications/2009/heweb2.aspx The framework for higher education qualifications in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, 2008): QAA 264 08/08 http://www.qaa.ac.uk/academicinfrastructure/FHEQ/EWNI08/default.asp#p4.3
5. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/presidential-proclamation-national-information-literacy-awareness-month/ Information & Media Literacy (UNESCO, Dec 2009): http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID = 15886&URL_DO = DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION = 201.html The Prague Declaration - "Towards an Information Literate Society". Information Literacy Meeting of Experts, Prague, Czech Republic (20-23 September 2003):