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UNESCO “Training-The-Trainers in Information Literacy” Workshops

In September 2007, the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Council for the Information for All Programme (IFAP) decided to fund a global scale-up project on information literacy and agreed on a series of regional Training-the-Trainers workshops in information literacy.

The project foresees to organize a series of 11 Training-the-Trainers workshops in information literacy, to be held from 2008 to 2009 in several institutions of higher education covering all regions of the world. The central purpose of the proposed workshop series is to allow ‘information literacy expert presenters’ to instruct 25―50 ‘trainer-participants’ at each workshop in the best available pedagogies for teaching information literacy. Upon completion of the training, the ‘graduated’ trainer-participants would then be expected, in turn, to offer their educational expertise to train all sectors of society in the countries in their respective regions, explaining why and how applying good information literacy practices can help individuals to cope more efficiently and effectively with their personal, family and community challenges; whether social, economic or political.

(excerpts from the “Training-The-Trainers in Information Literacy Workshops” web pages at the UNESCO web portal)

Worldwide UNESCO “Training-The-Trainers in Information Literacy” workshops:

1. University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston and Montego Bay, Jamaica (30 May―1 June 2008)

2. Pre-conference event at the World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), Québec, Canada (8―9 August 2008)

3. Universiti Teknologi Mara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (11―14 August 2008)

4. University of Tallinn, Tallinn, Estonia (21―23 August 2008)

5. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey (3―5 September 2008)

6. University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa (4―6 October 2008)

7. Wuhan University, Wuhan, China (21―23 October 2008)

8. Regional Library of Andalucia, Granada, Spain (27―30 October 2008)

9. Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt (4―6 November 2008)

10. Punjabi University, Patiala, India (5―7 November 2008)

11. Pontifical Universidad Catolica Peru, Lima, Peru (22―24 January 2009)

For more information and updates about the worldwide workshops, please visit the following links:

· The UNESCO official web pages on the “Training-The-Trainers in Information Literacy Workshops”

· UNESCO TTT: Training The Trainers in Information Literacy