LibGuides: Welcome to LILi!: Higher Education

Higher Education: Lower Division, Upper Division, and Graduate Students & Faculty

ALA: American Library Association
ALA: Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)
ALA: ACRL: California Academic & Research Libraries (CARL)
California chapter of ACRL
ALA: ACRL: CARL: Southern California Instruction Librarians (SCIL)
Offers opportunities for networking and library-instruction-related workshops in Southern California.
ALA: ACRL: Instruction Section (IS)
Focuses primarily on academic libraries. Offers many opportunities for active professional involvement through committees and elected offices. Hosts discussions at each ALA Midwinter Conference and Programs at each ALA Annual Conference. The semi-annual newsletter includes reports on committee activities, as well as ALA Annual conference programs and ALA Midwinter discussion forums.
ALA: Library Instruction Round Table
Open to librarians in all types of libraries, with many opportunities for active professional invovlement through committees and elected offices. The quarterly newsletter includes a technology column and an annual list of the top 20 library-instruction-related publications.
California Clearinghouse on Library Instruction, North
Maintains a depository of library instructional materials created by librarians in Northern California. Offers opportunities for networking and library-instruction-related workshops in
Northern California
LOEX (Library Orientation and EXchange)
National clearinghouse of library instructional materials and links. Their annual conference is often overbooked.
Partnership for 21st Century Skills

Road to Research
Basic information literacy tutorial, geared to UCLA undergraduates. To use, click on Guest, then click on Skip to Tutorial. (Note: Last updated in 2011.)

Calisphere
Primary source images and documents, plus "Themed Collections...primary source sets organized to support California Content Standards."
MERLOT
MERLOT=Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. Public domain digital learning objects created mostly by faculty/librarians and organized by subject.
Teach Information Literacy and Critical Thinking!
Created by Esther Grassian, Information Literacy Librarian, Emeritus (UCLA College Library). Check the "For Librarians" tab to find Credit Course syllabi.
CORA
ACRL Sandbox

ALA: ACRL: Information Literacy Resources
Includes links to IL standards developed for a variety of disciplines.
ALA: ACRL: Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (2016)
Filed by the ACRL Board on February 2, 2015. Adopted by the ACRL Board, January 11, 2016.

ILI-L (Information Literacy Instruction Listserv)
Formerly the BI-L listserv, hosted on the American Library Association server, and sponsored by the Instruction Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Discusses Metaliteracy, Information Literacy Instruction, Bibliographic Instruction, Library Use Instruction, and Library Orientation. The home page for the list includes archives for both ILI-L and BI-L. Subscription required.