LILAC 2014 Posters

Penny Andrew's poster Embedding multiple literacies in a MOOC for professionals caught my eye with its Russian Doll images in relation to  information literacy and multiple literacies. 

Embedding multiple literacies in a MOOC for professionals

The poster is by Penny Andrews, Penny is an an MSc Student at the University of Sheffield. @pennyb The following papragraph from her poster explains the images ...

"Information literacy is the literacy that contains all the other academic literacies. Florence Dujardin @afdujardin originated the idea of a matryoshka doll (set of nested dolls) as a metaphor for this concept" 

From how to why: critical thinking and academic integrity ..

From how to why: critical thinking and academic integrity as key ingredients in information literacy teaching was another poster that caught my eye, this one was from the Artic University of Norway. In their poster they present their plans and purposes with the course and discuss in particular why we consider a shift in focus to be essential.

They say that their "approach differs from many existing resources by our main objective, which is to train the students’ critical thinking in order to enhance their general learning outcome." 

 "The online resource will be launched for beta testing in September 2014, in cooperation with five different departments at our university. After final evaluation, the online course will be available to everyone under a Creative Commons licence." 

I'm a great believer in self-efficacy and believe that if you do not believe in yourself you fail before  you start whereas if you believe in yourself / what you do you can achieve so much more.

Thus the interest in this poster Does information literacy increase a person’s self-efficacy by Geoff Walton, Northumbria  University, geoff.walton@northumbria.ac.uk and Eleanor Johnston, Staffordshire University, e.johnston@staffs.ac.uk

The quesution is part of a study which aims to establish whether the IL programme 'Step-Up to HE' contributes directly to participants’ self-efficacy – a key programme objective (Taylor, 2012). I'll be interested in the findings.  

Using assignment data to analyse a blended information literacy intervention: A quantitative approach

Good news story from Geoff Wallton.

His article - Using assignment data to analyse a blended information literacy intervention: A quantitative approach Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 45 (1) pp53-63, written with Mark Hepworth has been selected by the American Library Association's Library Instruction Round Table's (LIRT's) Top Twenty Committee as a 2013 Top Twenty article.

The committee noted that:

[t]he study represents a powerful advocacy piece for using a blended approach with an online discussion component in delivering information literacy to foster higher order learning in students 

Geoff says that

Quite a few people have asked me for a copy of this article in the past, so to make it more accessible and for anyone to use in their evidence base to convince our non-info pro colleagues of the value of IL I have put freely available pre-publication version of the article in our institutional repository.

Please visit this website to access it: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/13184/

If anyone would like to discuss the article please get in touch.

Best wishes,

Geoff

Dr Geoff Walton,

Lecturer Information Sciences,

Faculty of Engineering and Environment,

Northumbria University,

Room 038,

Pandon Building,

Camden St.,

Newcastle upon Tyne,

NE1 8ST

United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 191 243 7144

Email: geoff.walton@northumbria.ac.uk

Skype: geoff.walton2012

Transition from 6th form to undergraduate - skills request

Request posted on LIS-INFOLIT in case you haven't seen it

Dear All,

I am the representative for School Librarians on Cilip's Information Literacy Group Committee and I am trying to compile a list of resources that School Librarians can use with 6th form students to help them understand the types of skills that they will need when they go to university.

Please could you let me know if your university has produced any free resources for prospective students - it could be general skills  or subject specific skills. The aim is to provide a list that will then be available for pupils to use.

Thank you,

Rebecca J

Dr Rebecca Jones
Librarian
Malvern St James
Avenue Road
WORCS.
WR14 3BA
T: 01684 892288
library blog: www.msjlibrary.blogspot.com
Website: http://www.malvernstjames.co.uk
Registered Charity Number 527513

The Use of Graphic Novels in Information Literacy Instruction

I've been following the discussions about Teaching Information literacy through comics on the LinkedIn Group Library and Information Research Methods

It's been an interesting discussion and Ryan Scicluna Library Assistant at the University of Malta who posted a message saying

Hi, does anyone know of any good reference articles about information literacy and graphic novels? I am working on an assignment about using comics to teach information literacy for my DLIS. Thanks

He has now published an article 'The Use of Graphic Novels in Information Literacy Instruction' It is a really interesting article and adds to discourse on information literacy and that information comes in more formats than text / the written word it also comes in pictures, graphics and images.

The article has several sections including:

• Definition of a graphic novel
• Why is it important to be information literate?
• How do graphic novels help?
• Projects and examples of how comics can teach Information literacy skills
• The local scene and how it can be improved

Food for thought!

I was interested to hear that 'The University of Dundee, Scotland, offers a unique MLitt in Comics Studies and students can pursue their studies further after completion of the Master with a PhD in comics studies'.

beta test of international SAILS (Standardized Assessment of Information Literacy Skills) launch

Recent LIS-INFOLITERACY@jiscmail.ac.uk posting that I thought would be of interest to the community.

Dear Colleagues,

Project SAILS (Standardized Assessment of Information Literacy Skills) is launching the beta test of an international version of the SAILS cohort assessment.

We are very excited to reach this stage. Working with librarians from various countries, we have made extensive revisions to the assessment so as to meet the needs of an international audience. In order to determine if the new test is valid, we are seeking testing institutions in countries outside the United States. If you or someone you know is interested, please go to this web page for details:

http://beta.projectsails.org/betatest

There is no cost to participate. If you have at least 50 students take the test, you will receive a report about their performance as a group.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

With warm regards,

Carolyn

Carolyn Radcliff
Information Literacy Librarian
Project SAILS
info@projectsails.org