This ppt provides guidelines on how to design an information literacy program on any topic. Intended audience: Post graduate students of Library and Information Science

1. Designing an Information
Literacy Program
Natesh Subhedar
DLIS, University of Delhi, 2019-20

2. Overview
• The following slides provide rough guidelines
on how to build and design your own
Information Literacy program
• Intended audience: Post Graduate students of
Library and Information Science

3. Step 1: Talk about philosophy of
Information Literacy
• Information literacy courses aim to empower
users to access, select (choose), understand
and use the information resources in the maze
of information
• In the environment of information overload,
information literacy courses are particularly
relevant. They help to know the range and
scope of information resources and how to
select only credible, accurate ones.

4. Step 2: List the Contents
• Introduction
• Objectives
• Methods of instruction
• Structure & level
• Course contents
• Evaluation
• Conclusion
• References

5. Step 3: Objectives
• Talk about what exactly you are going to cover
within your topic: the breadth (range) of
elements and the depth of each element
• Specify the time and space coverage. E.g
Recent times or last 100 years, limited to India
or international, etc

6. Step 4: Mention your method(s) of
Instruction
Choose one or more from the options below:
• Direct face-to-face instructional method: Lecture/
presentation, etc
• Experiential instructional method: Here, the learners are
actively involved in the session e.g discussing Practical
examples and case studies and putting questions to the
audience, conducting short quizzes
• Interactive instructional method: Here, the learners are
made to interact with one another and with the resources.
The instructor is only the facilitator.
• Independent instructional method: The learners interact
with the resources more or less independent of external
control of the instructor.

7. Step 5: What to mention in Structure
& Level
• Structure: Mention the intended audience, e.g
post graduate students, research scholars, etc
and the space coverage, e.g University of
Delhi, Indian universities, etc
• Level: Is the program basic level (simple
concepts and popular language) or advanced
(in-depth and scholarly)?

8. Step 5: Course Contents
This is the main part of your IL programme.
Please note it should be relevant and useful and
take into account what the learners already
know and what you what them to know

9. Step 6: Evaluation
• You can request every programme participant to send
in their feedback, with respect to your instruction
method and relevance and usefulness of your course
contents
• You can prepare a questionnaire and give your email
address
• You can also administer a post-test just after the
completion of your programme.
• Evaluation can be long-term too, i.e., evaluating long
term changes in awareness of the participants and
relevance of your course contents.

10. Winding up
• Never forget to include an Introduction and
Conclusion to your IL program.
• Always include references, in a standard
citation style, at the end.