CORIL ceases

The Cooperative Online Repository for Information Literacy Editorial Board has announced the end of the CORIL project. CORIL was a Canadian initiative to share materials relating to information literacy teaching, so it contains handouts, presentations and other material. To quote the announcement on the ILIG discussion list on Tuesday: "The planning involved in creating CORIL and the process of implementing and sustaining it over the past five years, represents significant deliberation and commitment by many of our colleagues. While in theory the project has had widespread support among instruction librarians, the CORIL collection only slowly has grown to thirty-eight items and for the past nine months has remained virtually dormant. Material in the repository will remain available for the foreseeable future, however no new content will be added." To see what is there go to
https://ozone.scholarsportal.info/handle/1873/6
Photo by Sheila Webber: Inside the Glimmingehus, Sweden, May 2008.

ILIG discussion list

There is now a discussion list for The Canadian Library Association's Information Literacy Interest Group. To join the ILIG listserv or see the archives (it's only just started so these are obviously very small at present) go to https://mta.uwinnipeg.ca/
mailman/listinfo/ilig

Photo by Sheila Webber: blossom closer up, from the tree in the photo on the previous blog post.

Subject-specific IL classes

There is a list (with links to class outlines in many cases) of subject-specific information literacy classes at North American universities, posted last week on Lauren's Library blog: http://laurenpressley.com/library/?p=380

Photo by Sheila Webber: Possibly cuckoo pint?? Hailsham, August 2007.

WILU conference materials

There are a good number of slides and handouts from the 2007 WILU (Canadian Information Literacy) conference. Given one of my current interests, the checklist & slides on "It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Avatar: Library Instruction in a 3D Virtual World" caught my eye. Altogether a lot of interesting presentations e.g. "Understanding International Students' Information Research Behavior ", "The Use of Personal Response Systems in Promoting Information Literacy and Library Instruction". There is even a whole workbook on Web feeds for information literate libararians from Lorie Kloda & Genevieve Gore of McGill University Library! The WILU materials web page is at http://www.yorku.ca/wilu2007/programme/materials.htm

Photo by Sheila Webber: Hollyhock bloom, Blackheath, June 2007.

Canadian IL

The Canadian Information Literacy Interest Group has a group of that name on Facebook (you will only get to this address if you are a member of Facebook): http://www.facebook.com/
group.php?gid=2338221377

While I'm mentioning Canada and Information Literacy, I notice from the above that the 7th Annual Augustana Information Literacy in A cademic Libraries Workshop has been announced for December 10, 2007: Presenter is Lisa Hinchliffe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: see http://www.augustana.ca/facilities/
library/infolit/workshop/

Photo by Sheila Webber: Bee on icelandic poppy, my garden, June 2007.

WILU blog

There are a few postings on the WILU (Canadian Information Literacy conference) blog. WILU took place just over these past few days (16-18 May). Apart from a complaint about accommodation there are pretty full write-ups of two sessions - I imagine there might be more after the event. http://wilu.wordpress.com/

Photo by Sheila Webber: taken whilst at the 2005 WILU conference in Guelph.