Gavilan Project Reports

Information Competency Plan for the California Community Colleges
The original Gavilan report.  Guess we started something big!

Information Competency: Mixed Media Alternative Instruction
 

Gavilan Information Competency Classes

Gavilan's Internet & Information Competency Class
This class is taught online every semester, including the summers!

Gavilan InfoComp Modules in ESL and Allied Health
These were funded by a variety of Grants.  Aren't they great?

Information Competency: Challenges & Strategies

Information Competency:  Challenges and Strategies for Development
Adopted in the Fall of 2002 by the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges.  See Appendix A for a short history of Information Competency efforts in the California Community Colleges.

 Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices
From the Institute for Information Literacy, a working group of the Association of College & Research Libraries.
 

What is Information Competency?

Definition of Information Competency
Information Competency Resolution passed by the Academic Senate of the California Community Colleges in 2001

Association of College & Research Libraries Information Literacy Website
"Resources on information literacy focused on improving the teaching, learning, and research role of the higher education community."  Information literacy and Information Competency are basically the same thing.

Information on Information Competency
Topsy Smalley, Information Literacy and Instruction Librarian at the Cabrillo College Library, has a site that's truly exhaustive (if not exhausting!).

Other College Efforts in the Neighborhood