Winners

Congratulations to Professor Christine Bruce (pictured here) and Dr Helen Partridge, two people prominent in the information literacy area, who have both won Carrick Fellowships. The Australian Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education has just awarded 8 associate fellowships. Christine Bruce will investigate developing a pedagogy of supervision for technology disciplines while Dr Helen Partridge will develop the guiding principles and model of best practice for library and information science education. Both are at Queensland University of Technology. The media release is here

ALIA IL

In 2007 the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Information Literacy Forum celebrated its 6th birthday with a makeover, and as part of this ALIA members were invited to choose a new name. The winner is Suzanne Parker, from the University of Queensland, who proposed renaming the ALIA Information Literacy Forum as - ALIA PATHWAYS - the website is still at http://www.alia.org.au/groups/infolit/.
Photo by Sheila Webber, April 2008: the pathways won't be like this in Queensland! Well, they aren't like that here right now, either

Symposium presentations

There are a few PowerPoints (Getting in Their Space, Confidence and Competence: Evaluating Information Literacy Teaching for Nurses and Information Literacy for the Long Term) plus the results of a caption competition on the website of the Australian and New Zealand Institute for Information Literacy 7th symposium (which took place last October) at http://www.anziil.org/events_meetings/2007/events/
symposium-series-seven/program.htm
Photo by Sheila Webber: Lake Ashi, Japan, 2005.

Librarians cited in Australian teaching awards

Picked up from the ALIA list: The Carrick Institute Citations for Outstanding contributions to Student Learning included librarians who have demonstrated excellence in information literacy in Australian universities.
Murdoch University: Merrilee Albatis, Pam Mathews, Margaret Solosy, Soun Wong: For the development and delivery of a flexible program to enhance student information literacy, embedded within the first year degree structure
Queensland University of Technology: Judith Peacock: For developing and leading systemic and sustainable models of intentional information literacy learning which empowers students as independent, discerning and masterful users of information
The University of Sydney: Jacqueline Hicks: For specialised expertise in supporting the diverse learning and information literacy needs of students across a range of subject areas and candidature levels

I see there was also a team in Information Studies at Curtin University who were mentioned. Congratulations to all and there is info on the Carrick Institute website: http://www.carrickinstitute.edu.au/carrick/go/home/awards

Phot by Sheila Webber: Shop in Paddington, Sydney, Australia, July 2004.

Experts/ expats

Carrying on the web 2.0 theme from the last post, the following was notified to the ALIA list:

Mitchell, P. (2007) "Information literacy experts or expats?" paper presented at SLANZA 2007. "This paper challenges library staff to reconsider their role in information literacy and how we ensure students and teachers are equipped to navigate the new information landscape. Are we experts in contemporary information literacyissues – issues such as online identity, digital rights, social networking, personalisation and collaborative content? Or are we in danger of becoming more like expatriates - continuing to do things like we did in ‘the old country’?"

It is full text and highlights some of the issues quite concisely. On the Education.au page at http://www.educationau.edu.au/jahia/Jahia/home/pid/482 there is a link to this and also to a couple of other papers (e.g. web 2.0 in education) that may be of interest.

Photo by Sheila Webber: window on a summer's afternoon, Madrid, July 2007.

IL in Brisbane

Bill Johnston is touring round Australia at the moment: he was giving a session at the Pacific Rim First Year Experience conference, and has also been meeting people and giving talks at universities in Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane. He was able to enjoy an evening hosted by Christine Bruce, and in this photo which Christine kindly emailed to me he (in the white shirt) is pictured next to Sylvia Edwards, with Angela Button and Hilary Hughes (Queensland University of Technology) also standing and Li Wang (University of Auckland), Christine Bruce and Ian Stoodley on the sofa.
I highlighted some papers by Christine, Sylvia and Hilary only a few days ago (here) so I will now mention a paper by Li Wang:
Wang, L. (2006) "Information literacy courses – a shift from a teacher-centred to a collaborative learning environment." In: Proceedings: 4th International Lifelong Learning Conference : Partners, Pathways, and Pedagogies, 13-16 June, 2006, Yeppoon, Queensland, Australia. pp 350-354. http://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/438

TAFE and IL

I was talking today to someone about information literacy in further education colleges: as anyone in that area will know there is far less literature than there is about universities. I was recommending looking at the material written about IL in Australian TAFEs, so I thought I'd mention that here too. TAFE stands for Technical And Further Education and I think they are the nearest equivalent to the UK's FE colleges (someone correct me if I'm wrong). You can actually find some good material by doing a search on good old Google TAFE "Information literacy".

To pick out a couple of specific items:
Fafeita, J. (2006) "The Current Status of Teaching and Fostering Information Literacy in TAFE." Australian academic and research libraries, 37 (2), 136-162. http://alia.org.au/publishing/aarl/37.2/fafeita.pdf (this reports on a survey of TAFE librarians)

LEARN Network of South Australian TAFE Libraries. (2006) Learn Information Literacy Initiative (Lili). http://www2.tafe.sa.edu.au/lili/index.html (A tutorial)

You also might want to keep an eye on the wiki Towards a knowledge commons: modelling a transformation of library services and information resource provision in the Vocational Education Sector http://victafe.pbwiki.com/

Photo by Sheila Webber: Yeppoon, Australia, June 2004.

ALIA Information Literacy Forum makeover

The ALIA (Australian Library and Information association) Information Literacy Forum is celebrating is 6th birthday and has decided to have a "mini makeover". They are inviting people to help rename the group. There is a competition with the prize of a AUS$50 Borders book voucher. Deadline is Monday July 30 2007. Further details on the group's website http://www.alia.org.au/groups/infolit/

Photo by Sheila Webber: Bee in a poppy, July 2007.

ANZIIL Symposium series 7 announced

ANZIIL Symposium Series Seven has the theme Why we do what we do: theory and action, and it takes place in Hobart (Tasmania) Monday 29 - Tuesday 30 October 2007 "Symposium 7 continues ANZIIL's popular series of practical, case study driven symposia on information literacy. The Hobart Symposium will provide a theoretic basis for librarians to think about and apply in teaching programs, collaboration for curriculum development, and other services that develop information literacy in tertiary education." More details at http://www.anziil.org/index.htm later in the month.

Photo by Sheila Webber: Hoop pine at sunset, Yeppoon, Australia, June 2004.

Christine Bruce at LILAC

Obviously I've got some catching up to do, blogging a couple more of the LILAC sessions from last week. Christine Bruce (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane) was one of the keynote speakers. She talked inspiringly about the transformational value of information literacy, and she also discussed some of the models generated through research, including her famous "seven faces" model. Here are some links that cover some of the material she mentioned.

Concise description of the Seven Faces, on her website: Seven faces of information literacy in higher education (and obviously in lots of other publications too, including her book: Bruce, C. (1997). The Seven Faces of Information Literacy. Adelaide: Auslib Press.).

Bruce, C and Edwards, S L and Lupton, M (2006) "Six Frames for Information literacy Education." Italics 5 (1). http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/italics/vol5-1/pdf/sixframes_final%20_1_.pdf

Hughes, H. (2006) "Responses and influences: a model of online information use for learning." Information research, 12 (1). http://informationr.net/ir/12-1/paper279.html (Reflective online information use model, and Model of responses and influences in online information use for learning)

Middleton, M., Bruce, C., Partridge, H. and Edwards, S. (2006) "Developing a research culture and scholarship plan in information studies," in Lloyd, A.e and Pymm, B. (Eds.) Research Applications in Information and Library Studies Seminar: RAILS 2. 11-22. Charles Sturt University Centre for Information Studies, Wagga Wagga, NSW. Eprint available at http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00002092/

Photo by Sheila Webber: Dusk approaching the City Business District, Brisbane, Australia, July 2006.

Information Online

The powerpoint presentations from the Australian Information Online 2007 conference (held January 30th to February 1st in Sydney, Australia) are available on their website:
which is here

Photo by Sheila Webber: Taronga zoo, Sydney, 2004.

Marketing information literacy

There are some PowerPoint presentations mounted from the CAVAL Reference Interest Group conference in November 2006 Getting Your Foot in the Door: Marketing Skills for Liaison and Information Literacy. This was held in Melbourne, Australia. The ppts are:
Angela Bridgland, University of Melbourne: Marketing information literacy: necessity or hype?

Craig Anderson, RMIT: Would you like fries with that? Are liaison librarians really salespeople in disguise?

Jenny Cameron, Victoria University: Keeping your foot in the door: 101 ways to connect with your clients

Carolyn McSwiney, Deakin University: More than meets the eye: Benefits of direct feedback from incoming international students at Deakin University Library.

This conference is at the top of the 2006 CRIG past events page: http://www.caval.edu.au/members/wpr/crig/pa/2006_papers.shtml

Further down the page, by the way, are some audio & ppt files recording four talks at an August 2006 seminar about new technologies (subjects were podcasting, RSS etc.)

Photo by Sheila Webber: St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia, Nov 2005 (taken when Bill Johnston and I were presenting at the previous CRIG annual conference).

Articles from ALIA conference

Sorry for the pre Christmas pause - have been on holiday in Vienna. Hereis something I found earlier . I mentioned the new librarians' conference a little while back, it took place at the start of the month. Papers are already archived with ALIA e-prints:

Blanchard, Libbie and Keleher, Jo (2006) "Federated Searching: Is the death toll sounding for Information Literacy? Do we really want to "Google" our libraries?" . In Proceedings ALIA New Librarians' Symposium 2006, The John Niland Scientia Building, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
http://e-prints.alia.org.au/archive/00000131/

Paul, Lisa (2006) "Librarian as Lecturer: how information literacy is paving the way for librarians to be integrated into student’s learning with advantages for both the student and your career." In Proceedings ALIA New Librarians' Symposium 2006, The John Niland Scientia Building, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
http://e-prints.alia.org.au/archive/00000144/

There are also papers and powerpoints linked from the conference site itself at http://conferences.alia.org.au/newlibrarian2006/programme.php

Photo by Sheila Webber: Sydney Opera House, June 2004.