%0 Journal Article
%T FORMIST : a network to help training in Information literacy in France
%A Sylvie Chevillotte
%J Liber Quarterly : The Journal of European Research Libraries
%D 2003
%I 
%X Information literacy has acquired /taking step by step/little by little a significant place position in the panorama of French universities over the past 10 years. It is organised in a very structured way, and it receives substantial state support. User training and the creation and broadcasting of educational documents is organised on a 3 level system: local level: university libraries regional level: seven URFIST (Unit¨¦s R¨¦gionales de Formation ¨¤ l'Information Scientifique et Technique) national level: FORMIST (R¨¦seau francophone de FORmation ¨¤ l'Information Scientifique et Technique). FORMIST was introduced created in 1997 at ENSSIB (Ecole Nationale Sup¨¦rieure en Sciences de l'Information et des Biblioth¨¨ques). FORMIST is a French website gathering educational tools, recommendations and information about information literacy (IL) and making them available to two kindskinds of communities: instructors (either teachers or library staff) and students. FORMIST also assumes the important role of coordinating an information instructors' network, through colloquiums, workshops and instructing future librarians in teaching skills.
%U http://liber.library.uu.nl/index.php/lq/article/view/7748