Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 2:15:34 -0500 From: Atanu Garai I am not particularly aware of the incorporations of information literacy related modules in course instructions of school/undergraduate or graduate levels in S.Africa or SE Asian countries,but as you know information literacy as a precursor for making young citizens fit for the knowledge society has been promoted in US for a long time since past two decades by the LIS schools,LIS associations and even the government.Information literacy has been taught as part of curriculum even at the school level;students are encouraged to learn how to search and retreive information in very nascent stages.Whereas,lack of this skill prevents us to produce quality information literate people,even doctoral candidates lack basic information search skills. I wonder how many of our LIS schools have incoporated "information literacy" in thier course curriculum.I have gone through an LIS syllabi bank recently and have not traced a single one. It is indeed imperative to start from the LIS itself then intoducing the information literacy into other disciplines. ~Atanu -- Atanu Garai|atanu@takingitglobal.org http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/atanu http://www.dgroups.org/groups/education --------- Original Message -------- From: Mailing List Manager To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] FW: [BOAI] New PLoS/OSI institutional membership grants (fwd) Date: 07/04/04 13:07

Sir,

Is there anything that can be done to market the OA initiative among institutions in India ? Is it possible that we are wrong in our approach each time ? I am talking here about the "Information literacy" competency of our elite (the educated, of course). [truncated]