Ruud de Moor Centrum

The Ruud de Moor Centrum of the Open Universiteit Nederland has published several titles including Door de bomen het bos: informatievaardigheden in het onderwijs. This short book brings together experiences and studies that are then applied to the educational situation in the Netherlands. Aim: to embed information literacy within  education. Especially interesting for teachers.

Landelijk Overleg Onderwijs Wetenschappelijke Informatie/LOOWI

LOOWI is a working group in the scholarly libraries department of the Dutch Association for practitioners in the library, knowledge and information sector (NVB). The primary goal is the mutual exchange of experiences with the development and provision of instructions. LOOWI has a database of websites with instructions in information literacy. The most recent can be found under the News (Nieuws) menu.

Landelijk Overleg Studievaardigheden/LOS

Platform for instructors, student advisors, researchers, study supervisors, deans, student psychologists, educationalists, etc., with the goal of fostering collaboration between practitioners, theorists and/or researchers involved with training others in study skills.

Texas Information Literacy Tutorial / TILT

TILT is the Dutch version (produced by IHOL) of the well-known Texas Information Literacy Tutorial. The original English version is no longer accessible on the Internet. Using six current topics, this tutorial gives a basic explanation of how to quickly and systematically search for, select and evaluate information.

The WebDetective 

The WebDetective was developed by public libraries in The Netherlands and is an adaptation of the Internet Detective (created by the Royal Library, The Hague, based on the international Internet Detective, see under ‘International Recommendations’).

Plagiarism

The SURFFoundation published Geoorlofd hergebruik: de juridische aspecten van plagiaat in het hoger onderwijs en leefregels voor geoorloofd hergebruik van materiaal (Permissible reuse: the judicial aspects of plagiarism in higher education and rules for permissible reuse of material).

Understanding Information Literacy: a primer
UNESCO’s Understanding Information Literacy gives a good overview of the whole terrain of information literacy: ‘This publication is an easy-to-read, non-technical overview explaining what ‘information literacy’ means, designed for busy public policy-makers, business executives, civil society administrators and practicing professionals.'

Association of College & Research Libraries/ACRL 
The American ACRL had already established the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education in 2000. This has since been used  by many Dutch universities and institutes of higher education as a departure point for developing information literacy education.

Internet detective
The Internet Detective: ‘to learn to discern the good, the bad and the ugly for your online research’. This course was created to be, among other things, a part of the Intute Virtual Training Suite, ‘a national JISC service for UK universities and colleges offering over 60 free web-based tutorials teaching Internet research skills’. It also contains special information for teachers.

Information Literacy Resources Directory
UNESCO and IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) started an information literacy initiative, with a state-of-the-art report (2006) and a database with sample instructions.