The Icelandic University Libraries Working Group on Information Literacy recently received a grant of ISK 4,500,000 from the Library Fund to design an information literacy teaching website. The goal of the project is to strengthen the activities of university libraries and harmonize information literacy teaching at the university level in accordance with the standards for higher education and degrees in Iceland (see the University Act No. 63/2006). 

The educational website is intended to train students in identifying the need for information, finding it, evaluating it and using it in an efficient and responsible manner. This is the first time that the universities have undertaken a collaboration of this kind, but the partners in the project are Reykjavík University Library, the National Library of Iceland – University Library, the Iceland Academy of the Arts Library, the Library of the School of Education, the Health Sciences Library of LSH and UI, the Library of the University of Akureyri and the Library of the University of Bifröst.  

The educational website will be published in open access under a license (CC BY 4.0) and although its content is primarily intended for university students, it will also benefit secondary school students and the general public. The estimated completion date is autumn 2023. 

Hilma Gunnarsdóttir, a specialist in information services and user education, is the LBS–HBS representative in the working group, and Sigurbjörg Long is the alternate.