UNESCO-SALIS e-Learning Portal on information literacy for South Asia launched The Indian Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS), in collaboration with UNESCO, launched the e-Learning Portal for Awareness Raising on Information Literacy. This project has its genesis in recommendations of a UNESCO supported Workshop on Information Literacy Competency Development for Information Professionals and Special Educators organized in November 2006 by SALIS in Chennai, India, and subsequent Information Literacy sensitization workshops held in Delhi and Nagpur in December 2006. The Portal aims to raise awareness, sensitize and enhance information literacy competency skills of common information users as well as information professionals and educators in the South Asian sub-region. Its objectives are fully in line with UNESCOs mandate to bridge the digital divide and UNESCOs vision of knowledge societies. The Portal covers a number of self-learning modules, such as: Information Communication Technology (ICT), Information Literacy, Lifelong Learning, Information Services for Disabled People, Freedom of Information, etc. The information literacy competency skills promoted by the Portal derive from the existing international standards, adopted by UNESCO, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), the American Library Association (ALA) and other professional societies. Indian library experts, in collaboration with lifelong learning experts, have developed the contents of the Portal modules using Moodle open source learning content management software. e-Learning Portal: http://salisonline.org/ Anup Kumar Das B5/29, Safdarjung Enclave New Delhi-110029 Ph. 26713000 extn. 208 Email: puna_05@yahoo.co.in --------------------------------- Get the freedom to save as many mails as you wish. Click here to know how. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.