Background Information
Acronym: RRA PD
Address: Ul. Gogolya 14
City: Pskov
Country: Russia
Zip: 180000
E-mail: pskovrra@mail.ru

General Inquiries About Organization
Name and Title: Valentina Antipova, Chairman
Fax: (8112) 162-504
Phone: (8112) 162-795; (8112) 440-673
E-mail: antipova_@mail.ru

Forum Contact Person
Name and Title: Valentina Antipova, Chairman
Fax: (8112) 162-504
Phone: (8112) 162-795; (8112) 440-673
E-mail: pskovrra@mail.ru

Mission Statement: To promote ideas of information literacy among educators and school librarians; to spread information literacy effective experience within school librarians in Russia.

Organizational Background/Description
: Pskov Department of Russian Reading Association was founded to consolidate people who understand the importance of literacy and information literacy in the modern world. The organization unites teachers, librarians, school librarians, administrators, and parents to share ideas, to suggest new approaches to teaching in schools, to design programs for school librarians who are the main link in helping children to use information effectively and efficiency.

Information Literacy Goals, Areas of Interest, Publications, Standards, etc.: RRA PD promotes information literacy in regional and national journals and newspapers. Some of them are:

Approaches to information literacy instruction in school library media centers in the USA / Antipova V. // Children’s Reading as a human capital formation’s factor. Materials of Conference. Sanct-Petersburg, 2004.

Information literacy instruction as a teaching function of a school library / Antipova V. // Russian Library Association Information Bulletin. Moscow. 2004. No.29.

Standards Power: Standards for school libraries: its creation and application / Daniel E., Antipova V. // Russian Library Association Information Bulletin. Moscow. 2004. No.29.

Information competence as a part of teachers’ and educators’ professional competence / Antipova V., Guseva T. // Postgraduate education problems, experience and perspectives: Conference papers. Sanct-Petersburg, 2004.

Information literacy instruction in libraries of the USA / Antipova V. // Teachers’ professional development: 10th Regional Conference Materials. Pskov, 2003.

School library’s role in students’ information literacy improvement / Antipova V. // Pskov school, 2003.

Information literacy instruction in the US university libraries / Antipova V. // Modern educational technologies in higher education: 4th Regional Conference materials. Pskov, 2003.

Standards for school libraries: its creation and application / Daniel E., Antipova V. // School library. Moscow. 2003. No. 6.

Information Power: It has its standards / Daniel E., Antipova V. // Teachers’ Newspaper. Moscow. 2003. Sept.16.

A book in a library: what for? / Antipova V. // Teachers and administrators practical journal. Moscow. 2003. No.6.

Students independent work with information resources / Antipova V. // Pskov school. 2002. No.4.

Information literacy and problems of access to information // The Quality of Education: Regional Conference Materials. Severomorsk, 2001.

The library as an information center of a school / Antipova V. // Pskov school, 2001

The Basis of information literacy: a Program for teaching students / Antipova V. // Library at a school. Moscow.. - 2001.

Intellectual work: Is it possible for students? / Antipova V. // Library. Moscow.-2000-? 5.

The thinking student / Antipova V. // Library. - Moscow. - 1999. - ? 10.