14. 01.2009 Dear friends and professionals, Wish you a very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2009 You are all aware that the Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS) is organizing many programmes on ‘Information Literacy’ with the active support and guidance of UNESCO in many places in our country. I am happy to inform you that SALIS is again organizing a Special Session on ‘Information, Media and Digital Literacy’ supported by UNESCO during the SALIS International Conference on Knowledge Networking in Digital Era ( 22-24 Jan 2009) between 3-30 PM to 6.30 P.M on 23.01.2009 at Chennai. This Special Session will be about 3 hrs duration with discussions and Q&A. Experts from various fields will be delivering the following special lectures. 1. Media and Digital Literacy by Ms. Iskra Panevska Advisor in Communication and Information for Asia, UNESCO, New Delhi 2. Information Literacy - Basics, Standards, Models and Case Studies by Prof. Pradeepa Wijetunge, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka 3. Information Literacy Model Curricula for different types of persons (researchers, school students, graduate/PG students, professionals, lifelong learners, disabled persons, etc.) Information Literacy Indicators by Prof.Jagtar Singh,Department of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, 4. Media Literacy - basics, models, standards, indicators ( an expert from Media) 5. Digital Literacy - basics, models, standards, indicators by Dr. Harish Chandra, Librarian, IIT M 6. Information Literacy for all by Mr. Anup Kumar Das, New Delhi. Date: 23. 01.2009 Time: 3.30 P.M to 6.30 P.M Venue : B.S.A. Crescent Engineering College (Seminar Hall 1), Chennai You are all cordially invited to participate in the special programme and also give your valuable suggestions to take Information Literacy to all in our county. Programme Co-ordinator A.Hariharan Presisent, SALIS -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.