The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education Review and Revision Task Force has a survey open to consult on the Framework and consider revisions. It has been open for a few weeks (apologies!), so probably a good idea to respond promptly. It asks you about how you use different bits of the framework, whether you think anything is missing, whether you find it straightforward to understand etc. The survey is here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PRT5FMX
Photo by Sheila Webber: more magnolia, March 2025
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Tuesday, April 08, 2025
Survey for review of the ACRL Information Literacy Framework
Monday, April 07, 2025
Registration open for #WILU2025
Canada's information literacy conference, WILU, takes place in person in Hamilton, ON, Canada, 9-12 June 2025, and registration is now open. I would recommend this conference: I really enjoyed attending WILU last year.
More information at https://macblog.mcmaster.ca/wilu2025/
Sunday, April 06, 2025
Information Literacy cakes
An information literacy cake-baking competition was organised by the Australian organisation CAVAL in October 2024, to celebrate 50 years of Information Literacy, and coinciding with the CAVAL Research and Information Group's (CRIG) annual event. You can find pictures and information about all the inventive cakes here https://www.caval.edu.au/activity/crig-seminar-2024-cake-competition/
If you are not interested in cakes, there are pdfs of some presentations from the actual event (Information Literacy is Turning 50: Advocacy, Inclusion, Empowerment) here and here
Winning cake: The Lighthouse, created by Sarah Charing, Sophie Kollo, and Jane Jilbert (The University of Melbourne)
Friday, April 04, 2025
Generative Artificial Intelligence Skills in Schools
More information at https://www.cilips.org.uk/events/genaisis/
Photo by Sheila Webber: narcissi, April 2025
Thursday, April 03, 2025
Webinar: Think like a teacher: pedagogical skills for librarians
"Does your job involve teaching? Is that not part of what you imagined librarianship to be? Do you ever feel under skilled and overwhelmed by this aspect of your role? Then this session is for you. In this webinar, Neena Shukla Morris, Information Resources Librarian for University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust, uses her knowledge and experience of working in a variety of roles within education to provide you with pragmatic, easily-implementable, no-cost tips and tricks to elevate your taught sessions."
Register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/think-like-a-teacher-pedagogical-skills-for-librarians-tickets-1295578432969
Photo by Sheila Webber: lost item series: lost dog plushie, March 2025
Wednesday, April 02, 2025
Call for proposals: Inclusive Digital Literacy for All
The IFLA Information Literacy Section has a call for proposals for a satellite (to the WLIC) meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, to be held in person on 15 August 2025. The theme is: Inclusive Digital Literacy for All: Bridging Communities for a United Future. Deadline for proposals is 24 April 2025.
"This topic highlights inclusive digital literacy strategies that bridge the digital divide and promote equitable access. Aligned with WLIC 2025’s theme, it shows how digital empowerment fosters a more connected, fair, and knowledge-driven world. We welcome submissions from educators, librarians, and researchers advancing inclusive digital literacy and innovative technologies, such as AI, within the library and information field. Your insights can help shape a more equitable, connected, and knowledge-driven global society."
More information at: https://www.ifla.org/news/information-literacy-section-call-for-papers-wlic-2025-satellite-meeting-inclusive-digital-literacy-for-all-bridging-communities-for-a-united-future/.
Photo by Sheila Webber: a host of dancing daffodils, March 2025
Tuesday, April 01, 2025
April Fool's adjacent
- Cox, S. (2016, April 2). April Fool's! https://librarydisplays.org/2016/04/01/april-fools/ (April Fool pranks done by, and to, a school library)
- Flanagan, E. (2023, February 13). Teaching Information Literacy in the Classroom. https://www.erintegration.com/2023/02/13/teaching-information-literacy-in-the-classroom/ (nb it is selling priced items "The posters are included in both color and blackline and can be used in an April Fool’s Day theme or as a digital citizenship bulletin board all year round.")
- geoztinker. (2024, December 14). infuriating ai generated “bird” calendar i found… they’re all horribly wrong…which one is your favorite. https://www.reddit.com/r/birding/comments/1hdsorz/infuriating_ai_generated_bird_calendar_i_found/ You can do a "how many mistakes can I spot" exercise.
- Winick, S. (2026, March 28). April Fools: The Roots of an International Tradition. https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2016/03/april-fools/ (Detailed history about April Fool's Day, from the Library of Congress)
Photo by Sheila Webber: All the blossoms fell off this tree into a circle below! (No, April Fool, it's yet another photo of crocuses)
Monday, March 31, 2025
Recent articles
- Chen, X., Lin, A. and Webber, S. (2025). "We do not always enjoy surprises”: investigating artificial serendipity in an online marketplace context. Journal of Documentation, 81(2), 403-422. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-01-2024-0011 Open access at https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/220256/
- Yerbury, H. and Henninger, M. (2025). Knowing and not knowing about algorithms. Journal of Documentation, 81(2), 301-312. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-04-2024-0076 "A practice-based study of university librarians and their role in the development of algorithmic literacy, using semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis, showed that they had limited socio-technical knowledge of algorithms."
- Bogers, T., Gäde, M., Koolen, M., Petras, V. and Skov, M. (2025). Understanding complex casual leisure information needs: an analysis of search requests for books, games, movies and music. Journal of Documentation, 81(1), 168-194. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-03-2024-0070 "In this paper, we introduce the CRISPS (CRoss-domaIn relevance aSPects Scheme) coding scheme for complex information needs in the four leisure domains of books, games, movies and music. It categorizes the relevance aspects people consider when searching for these resources." Their codebook is here https://zenodo.org/records/11638932
- Benton, L. and Sexton, A. (2025). Long-term needs, long-term access? Major crime recordkeeping and the information needs of individuals bereaved by homicide. Journal of Documentation, 81(1), 86-106. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-04-2024-0075 "The findings indicate that the long-term information needs of homicide bereaved individuals are ill-served by the current police recordkeeping framework ... the research demonstrates a long term need for: (1) information access; (2) support for access; (3) a direct and personalised information access service and (4) trauma-informed and victim/survivor centred practice in police recordkeeping contexts."
- Du, X. and Costello, K.L. (2025). Information snowballing: information practices in the context of sustainable food practices. Journal of Documentation, 81(2), 469-490. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-08-2024-0200 "The findings identify three stages of information snowballing: (a) learning by lifelong exposure and serendipitous information encountering; (b) constructing information landscapes; and (c) snowballing or gradually accumulating information."
Photo by Sheila Webber; Magnolia blossoms, March 2025
Sunday, March 30, 2025
AI and Health Information Literacy among Women in South Asia
Islam, M.A., Gala, B., Riyaz, A., Bhardwaj, R.K., & Aslam, T. (2024). Exploring women’s health information literacy with AI: A south asian study. Information Matters, 4(12). https://informationmatters.org/2024/12/exploring-womens-health-information-literacy-with-ai-a-south-asian-study/
There is also brief information, together with information about information about other 2024 award recipients at https://lib.purdue.edu/iilp/research-grants/
Photo by Sheila Webber; Magnolia (at its peak this weekend!), March 2025
Friday, March 28, 2025
Call for papers: Refugee learners risking and resisting (in)visibility in and through lifelong learning
There is a call for papers from the International Review of Education for a special issue on Refugee learners
risking and resisting (in)visibility in and through lifelong learning. The deadline for abstracts is 1 August 2025. The highlighted themes are: Navigating precarity; Lifelong learning, vulnerability, and nationalist backlash; Structural racism and sexism in lifelong learning; Hidden in plain sight; Challenging precarity; Lifelong learning as resistance.
Information Literacy isn't mentioned, but information behaviour and information literacy have relevance to a number of those themes.
More information at https://www.uil.unesco.org/en/articles/call-abstracts-special-issue-international-review-education-0
Photo by Sheila Webber: another crocus picture from earlier this month, March 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Using Canva
Some people use Canva for information literacy teaching, so you might be interested in:
- 25 April 2025. 12.00-13.00 BST. Creating amazing video content with Canva - a librarian's Power Hour. Led by
Bev Humphrey. "Canva offers many video templates to help you create videos suitable for a
range of platforms, including TikTok and Instagram." Cost £35. Info & Register at
https://tinyurl.com/3yzc2e39
- 20 June 2025. 12.00-13.00 BST. Perfect presentations created in Canva – a Power Hour Led by
Bev Humphrey. "Are you looking to up your game when creating presentations? If so Canva is
definitely the right tool for you!" Cost £35. Info & Register at
https://tinyurl.com/35abnuv5
Photo by Sheila Webber: crocuses earlier in March, 2025.
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Revised Metaliteracy Goals and Objectives: Empowering Learners for Generative AI
Goal 1: Reflect on your identity as an active learner within evolving information environments
Goal 2: Critically evaluate and ethically produce information, reflecting on your roles and impact across platforms.
Goal 3: Contribute informed and ethical perspectives in collaborative social settings.
Goal 4: Develop continuous learning strategies through a metaliterate mindset.
There are also four domains (Affective, Behavioral, Cognitive, Metacognitive) which the objectives within each goal are mapped to.
There is an English and a Spanish language version, and a Portuguese version is promised.
Go to https://metaliteracy.org/2025/03/11/finalized-2025-metaliteracy-goals-and-objectives-empowering-learners-for-generative-ai/
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Healthcare workers informal use of personal mobile phones
An interesting project which is showcased (& partially supported by) and being discussed by the HIFA (Healthcare Information For All) community at the moment: mHealth-Innovate: Exploring healthcare workers informal use of personal mobile phones - Research findings and implications for policy and practice. The researchers did a systematic review and carried out qualitative studies in Uganda. "Informal use" means that healthcare workers are using their own personal phones to carry out various functions to do with caring for patients.
There is a short video (n.b. the embedded video tells me I need to sign into Vimeo, but if you follow the link to https://zenodo.org/records/15012090 you don't have to sign in) and a summary report.
Obviously this gives a lot of insight into information behaviour etc. and it is international in scope.
Go to https://www.hifa.org/news/mhealth-innovate-exploring-healthcare-workers-informal-use-personal-mobile-phones-research
Image created by Sheila Webber using Midjourney AI