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Entries in Public Libraries (15)

Tuesday
Apr292014

Special issue call for papers from New Library World exploring Information Behaviour and Practice

There is a call for papers from New Library World as follows: 

New Library World is planning to publish a special issue exploring Information Behaviour and Practice in general, with a focus more specifically on implications for library and information services. This issue will be jointly guest edited by Dr Allen Foster and Dr Pauline Rafferty of Aberystwyth University.

Scope
We are looking for articles which deal with both theoretical and practical aspects of information behaviour.

Topics of interest include but are not restricted to:

  *   Models and theories of information seeking behaviour
  *   Information seeking behaviours in the digital age
  *   The Google Generation
  *   Information seeking behaviours of specific groups of information users
  *   Reading, information behaviour and the library
  *   Context in information behaviour
  *   Everyday life information seeking
  *   From information seeking  behaviour to Information practice
  *   Implications for academic libraries of students’ information seeking behaviour
  *   Information seeking in public libraries
  *   Serendipity and incidental information acquisition
  *   From information behaviour to designing information systems
  *   Information behaviour: relationships between structure and agency
  *   Information spaces and information behaviour
  *   Convenience and information seeking
  *   The impact of mobile devices on information behaviour
  *   The affective dimension of information seeking

Research papers, case studies and best practice papers will be considered.

More about the special issue theme

Information seeking behaviour remains an area of importance in  information science and librarianship, perhaps even more so in the digital age. This special issue is an opportunity to share contemporary ideas in information behaviour, as well as practice models and methods which originate from (or are of relevance to) any branch of the LIS discipline, sub-discipline and wider information profession.

Submission
Please submit manuscripts for consideration using our online submission platform by 2 June 2014.

Full author guidelines can be found at http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=nlw.

See more at:http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=5339#sthash.KC7eDecO.dpuf

Tuesday
Feb252014

LILAC 2014: bursary winners

Congratulations to the winners of LILAC's bursary scheme which was set up this year to enable access to the LILAC conference for librarians from sectors which traditionally struggle to secure funding from their employers.
 
They are:

  • Public - Jacqueline Geekie, Information Literacy and Learning Librarian, Aberdeenshire Libraries
  • NHS - Ruth Jenkins, Librarian, Healthcare Library, Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
  • Schools/FE - Donna Gundry, Head of Library Services, Plymouth College of Art.

Congratulations also to CILIP's Information Literacy Group / the LILAC Comittee for offering this bursary.

Thursday
Feb202014

Health sessions help people online

I came across a small item of news in last month's CILIP Update about an initiative at York Libraries 'helping people living in the city find information about health matters'. What's great about this piece of news is that

'the NHS Helath Online sessions have been taking place in a number of the city's libraries, offering not just access to accurate health information but also teaching the skills needed to find it'.

This is great news and the sort of exemplar I was looking for my book chapter Information literacy in health management. As the article says 'combining information literacy training with the sessions should help equip those attending with skills they need to search independently in the future.'

Well done to York Libraries.

 

Crawford, J., Irving, C. (2013). Information literacy and lifelong learning: Policy issues, the workplace, health and public libraries Cambridge, UK: Chandos Publishing

Tuesday
Jan142014

LILAC News: paper accepted, bursaries and awards nominations announced; 

Plans and news from LILAC are coming thick and fast.

Paper accepted - the paper I submitted has been accepted - so good news there. The paper is on the community of practice 'Information Skills for a 21st century Scotland: a National Information Literacy Community of Practice'. I'm going to look at the achievements and lessons learned from the Scottish Information Literacy project; what a community of practice is; what the online information literacy community of practice: Information Skills for a 21st century Scotland  looks like and reflect on what has been achieved to date by this community of practice with no budget or funding but through the generosity of people and organisations’ time and commitment to the community; the benefits of a community of practice; what has worked and what hasn’t; lessons learned and the challenges it faces. 

LILAC bursaries announced - three conference places are being offered for the following sectors: Shools/FE, Public, Health. For details see http://www.lilacconference.com/WP/bursaries/ Closing date 7th February 2014 at 17:00 GMT. 

LILAC 2014 awards launched

  •  The Information Literacy Award rewards an individual contribution by a practitioner or researcher (sponsored by the CILIP IL Group and Talis) Closing date: Thursday 6th March 2014.
  • The Credo Reference Digital Award for Information Literacy rewards the best new digital IL resource Closing date: Thursday 6th March 2014.
  • The Student Award provdes 2 students with fully funded places at LILAC (sponsored by the CILIP IL Group) Closing date: Thursday February 20th 2014.

For full details of the nomination process see http://www.lilacconference.com/WP/awards/ 


Thursday
Dec052013

Exploring the information literacy skills of teachers in Northern Ireland

Giants Causeway Northern IrelandOn a recent visit to the University of Ulster's Coleraine campus in Northern Ireland I met Christine McKeever a former school lbrarian who graduated from the University in July with an MSc in Library and Information Management. She commenced a full-time PhD programme in September and is exploring the information literacy skills of teachers in Northern Ireland.

Although it is very early days it is great that this area is being looked at and I'm interested to see how Christine's research progresses and how it differs or not to the research carried out by Dorothy Willams from RGU (Robert Gordon University) in Aberdeen some years ago now.

The University of Ulster's postgraduate programme in Library and Information Management has been developed by the School of Education in close collaboration with the Chartered Institute for Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), the Library and Information Services Council NI (LISC), with the University of Ulster Library, and with library and information employers and practitioners in Northern Ireland.

This close collaboration with the School of Education is great news and hopefully along with Christine's PhD may provide an inroad for information literacy training for teachers. 

Christine is not the only PhD student at Ulster looking at schools. Francesca Fodale is in her second year and is evaluating school library services in Northern Ireland. I wonder if this includes the impact of the school librarian? In Scotland SLIC recently commissioned Robert Gordon University (RGU) to undertake research into the impact of school libraries. Full details of the project, including the RGU final report should be available soon.

Nearing completition of his PhD is Anthony McKeown, his PhD focuses on public libraries and information poverty in Northern Irealand. Another really interesting research area. I'll do a posting about Anthony's PhD later.