LILAC 2014 key note - Alison Head / Project Information Literacy

Alison J. Head, Ph.D. is a Research Scientist in the University of Washington’s Information School and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. She is the founder and director of Project Information Literacy (PIL), an ongoing research study in the US that has investigated how college students conceptualize and operationalize research tasks for course work and “everyday life” use. Since 2008, Alison and her team of PIL researchers have interviewed and surveyed over 13,000 undergraduates at 57 US four-year public and private universities and colleges and two-year community colleges. In 2013, Library Journal named PIL one of the “Big Four Research Studies” about library users. PIL is available at: http://projectinfolit.org/

Alison is a good speaker and many of her findings resonated with my findings from 2005. 

Her presentation Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research is now available along with the other LILAC 2014 presentation