1. Presented at the NCC Open Meeting March 23, 2007 The Information Literacy Resources Portal Task Force Report

2. Who We Are Sanae Isozumi, Japanese Studies Librarian, University of California, San Diego Chiaki Sakai, Japanese Studies Librarian, University of Iowa Asako Shiba, Japanese Catalog Librarian/Subject Librarian, Washington University in St. Louis Xiuying Zou, Public Services Librarian, University of Pittsburgh Dawn Lawson, East Asian Studies Librarian, New York University

3. Credit Also Goes to Tokiko Bazzell, coordinator of the original portal and current NCC chair Victoria Bestor, NCC Executive Director Brigid Laffey, NCC Webmaster Toshie Marra, former NCC chair Yoko Okunishi, NCC Program Associate AND MANY OF YOU!

4. The Portal Site

5. Recent Activities Creation of ILR Discussion List Survey of AskEASL Guides Adding New Content Posting Links to Other IL-Related Sources

6. NCC-ILR Discussion List A Google Group for the purpose of discussing information literacy issues, especially as related to East Asian studies Relevant messages forwarded from ALA’s ili listserv Forty-nine members Low traffic to date; please join us by searching for us on Google Groups or contacting any Task Force member!

7. How to Join http://groups.google.com/group/NC C-ILR http://groups.google.com/group/NC C-ILR Or e-mail chiaki-sakai@uiowa.edu

8. Survey of AskEASL Guides Reviewed more than 30 guides to resources of all kinds Assessed their currency and relevance to IL Moved to portal as is, requested permission when needed, designated for updating, or declared obsolete Updated guides include those to China Academic Journals and Nikkei Telecom 21; others are in progress

9. New Content and Links Rob Britt’s comprehensive workshop on Japanese legal resources, a lesson plan with handouts Chiaki Sakai’s new CiNii guide Links to NDL Japanese-language guides Link to Harvard’s Introduction to Data Resources for Japan

10. Going Forward Review all past workshops with the goal of obtaining materials appropriate for the site Continue updating former askEASL guides and soliciting guides to new resources Create a tutorial

11. We Need You Dust off any lesson plans, exercises, workshop materials, guides, etc, you have created in the past and share them with us! Let us know when you develop new materials that we can post on the portal or link to. Give us your feedback on the portal site.

12. Questions, Comments? Feel free to contact me or any member of the Task Force with your suggestions dawn.lawson@nyu.edu sisozumi@ucsd.edu chiaki-sakai@uiowa.edu ashiba@wustl.edu xiz42+@pitt.edu