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<DIV>Webinar Title:<SPAN class=155105415-04032010> <STRONG>Information Literacy
Education: A National Overview</STRONG></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV>Speaker: Dr. Lisa Stock, Dr. Jean Donham and Dane Ward </DIV>
<DIV>Cost: Free to Library Staff of Oregon Libraries<BR>Date: Friday, March 12,
2010 </DIV>
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<DIV>Description: </DIV>
<DIV>When President Barack Obama declared October 2009 as National Information
Literacy Awareness Month, Information Literacy received national
attention. The declaration stated: “In addition to the basic skills
of reading, writing, and arithmetic, it is equally important that our students
are given the tools required to take advantage of the information available to
them.” He asked “people of the United States to recognize the important
role that information plays in our daily lives, and appreciate the need for a
greater understanding of its impact.” </DIV>
<P class=bodytext>In this context, Lisa Stock, Dean of Learning Resources at
College of DuPage, Jean Donham, Associate Professor in School Library Studies at
The University of Northern Iowa Division of School Library Studies and the
Department of Curriculum & Instruction and Dane Ward<STRONG>,</STRONG> Dean
of Public Services at Illinois State University's Milner Library, will give
a background briefing on the working standards and assessments for national
literacy and open a dialog on what librarians can do to strengthen efforts to
encourage and build information literacy efforts not only in your own library,
but in concert with your colleagues around the country. </P>
<DIV>This webcast is 90 minutes in length. Visit <A
href="http://bcr.org/training/partners/teleconferences/index.html">http://bcr.org/training/partners/teleconferences/index.html</A>
for additional information or contact BCR directly at <A
href="mailto:info@bcr.org">info@bcr.org</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Location: <BR>View the training via webcast from your personal computer or
a computer you can access easily. Or you may attend a group session at a
location near you. Please review the host sites <A
href="http://bcr.org/training/partners/teleconferences/sites/oregon/literacy.html">http://bcr.org/training/partners/teleconferences/sites/oregon/literacy.html</A><SPAN
class=155105415-04032010> </SPAN>to find a convenient location. (Check back
later if no Oregon sites are listed initially)</DIV>
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<DIV>How to Register:<BR>Register online at <A
href="http://bcr.org/training/partners/teleconferences/registration.html">http://bcr.org/training/partners/teleconferences/registration.html</A>
– registration is FREE.</DIV>
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<DIV>Background Information:<BR>This webcast is being made available free of
charge to staff from Oregon libraries through a statewide membership to BCR (<A
href="http://www.bcr.org">http://www.bcr.org</A>), paid for by the Oregon State
Library with LSTA funds.</DIV>
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<DIV>An online archive of this presentation will be available for up to 30 days
after the original broadcast date. Please visit <A
href="http://bcr.org/training/partners/teleconferences/index.html">http://bcr.org/training/partners/teleconferences/index.html</A>
for more information.</DIV>
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<DIV>A DVD of this webcast should be available for you to check out from the
State Library about one month after the date it was broadcast. DVDs of previous
Soaring to Excellence webcasts are available at State Library (<A
href="http://catalog.willamette.edu/screens/opacmenu_s2.html">http://catalog.willamette.edu/screens/opacmenu_s2.html</A>)
through your library's establish interlibrary loan process. Learn more about
these DVDs and other Library and Information Science professional resources at
our blog (<A
href="http://osl-lis.blogspot.com/">http://osl-lis.blogspot.com/</A>). </DIV>
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<DIV align=center>Katie Anderson, Library Development Services</DIV>
<DIV align=center>* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book
Coordinator *</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301</DIV>
<DIV align=center><A
href="mailto:katie.anderson@state.or.us">katie.anderson@state.or.us</A>,
503-378-2528</DIV>
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