CJARL Meeting - December 12, 2008 10am-12pm

Information literacy is hardly a new concept among librarians. However, it now seems like the rest of the world is finally starting to catch up to us. Over the past few years, a growing number of non-Librarian faculty in high education have begun to realize that accessing and interpreting information is increasingly relevant to student success.

This is good news.

What’s even better news is that many of our academic Librarian colleagues throughout New Jersey are also noticing this trend. Just as we’ve been discussing information literacy competencies and standards during our CJARL meetings, our colleagues on the User Education committee of the New Jersey Chapter of ACRL and VALE’s Shared Information Literacy (SIL) committee have been doing the same.

The progression standards are currently being conceived according to two areas: (1) high school to collegiate progression and (2) 2-year college to 4-year college progression.

That said, it’s about time that we convene all three groups for a kind of “mini-summit” geared toward hashing out our thoughts and ideas on progression standards.

Eleonora Dubicki of the NJACRL-UE committee has graciously arranged accommodations for the joint meeting to take place in Magill Commons (part of the dining/conference facilities) at Monmouth University from 10am-12pm on Friday, December 12, 2008.

This meeting will take the place of our previously-scheduled meeting from 10am-12pm on December 12.

It promises to be a great meeting.

-Gary