RAILS conference online

The Australian conference that focuses on research in the library and information field, RAILS, will take place online 29-30 November 2022. The theme is Off the RAILS: Changing Research for Changing Times. It is free of charge. It runs in 10.15-15.00 on 29th and 15.00-20.30 on the 30th - in Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT) (You can find the time in your country at for10am on 29th here).
Speakers include: Carol Tenopir (Scholarly reading: What has changed, what hasn’t changed, and what might change in the future); Lisa Given (Enabling research-based practice in library and information science: A preliminary model from the LISRA project); Chin Ee, LOH (New Times, New Methods: How to Be a Data-Savvy LIS Researcher and Practitioner; Gill Hallam (The interplay between research and practice in the ALIA Professional Pathways initiative; Mary-Anne Kennan (Getting published).
More details at https://railsconference.wordpress.com/ and registration at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/off-the-rails-changing-research-for-changing-times-tickets-383217522927
Photo by Sheila Webber: more rosehips, September 2022

Call for LiLi Show and Tell presentations

LiLi is seeking Show & Tell presentators for the 2022-2023 year. "Each Show & Tell will feature a 20-40 minute demonstration by one or two information professionals demonstrating a tool or theory related to teaching information literacy. Each demonstration will be followed by a 10-20 minute Q&A. For presenters who are unable to present live, arrangements can be made to pre-record your session." Example topics include: Education technology & tools; Information literacy instruction in schools; Adult information literacy instruction; Health literacy; Civic and community engagement; Feminist pedagogy; Universal design for learning - there are more examples listed on the website at https://lili.libguides.com/lili/showandtellcfp and also a link to past examples. To volunteer, email LILi Web Committee Chair, April Sheppard, at asheppard@astate.edu

Effective Educational Ecosystems: Solutions for Open Digital Content

I've only just heard aout an online event related to the UNESCO Media and Information Literacy initiative: Effective Educational Ecosystems: Solutions for Open Digital Content taking place today (17 September) at 13.00-14.30 US Eastern time (which is, e.g. 18.00-19.30 UK time) as part of the Transforming Education Summit (TES) 2022 at United Nations HQ in New York, USA.
There is a webcast: you go to https://media.un.org/en/webtv and search for ‘ Effective Educational Ecosystems: Solutions for Open Digital Content’, conference room 1, 17 September.
"This side event will examine how Governments can leverage two key UN instruments – representing globally adopted norms and standards in the area related to open educational content: the 2019 UNESCO OER Recommendation and the United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/75/267 on Media and Information Literacy and related MIL guidelines. Discussions will center on how these instruments guide creation of the crucial digital ecosystems needed for the establishment and maintenance of free, high quality open educational resources and platforms, while building educators’ and learners’ media and information literacy for critical and effective engagement with information, technologies and media."

Young Scot and the European Youth Information Charter

One of the presentations at the webinar I was at last week was from Young Scot. They have a Get Informed website and have a section on Information Literacy at https://youngscot.net/information-literacy which includes their own commitment to provide information in line with the European Youth Information Charter. The latter document seeks "to guarantee the right of young people to complete, reliable and updated information" and so is worth looking at if you provide information to young people."
Photo by Sheila Webber: Teddy, September 2022

Keeping up with ... #peerReviewWeek

The latest in ACRL's Keeping Up With .... series is Keeping up with ... peer review week. As usual it is a short publication with brief explanation, suggested articles and links, all to do with peer review (including some articles troubling the notion). It is here. 

I hadn't realised Peer review week was a thing, but it is next week: https://peerreviewweek.wordpress.com/ The organisations behind it are mostly publishers of various kinds.

European Project: BRIDGE

At the Scottish event I presented at last week, they mentioned Information and Digital Literacy at School. A Bridge to Support Critical Thinking and Equality Values for Primary Education Using Children’s Literature and Transmedia (BRIDGE) a new European project targeted at school children aged 8-11 that  "endeavours to foster information literacy (as well as digital, visual and media literacy) as a vital basis for educating an informed citizenry that will stand up to disinformation, hate speech and fake news". There are partners in Spain, Turkey, the UK, Italy, Finland and Greece. Since it has only just started there is not much on the website at the moment, but it is worth keeping track of.
Go to https://bridgeinfoliteracy.eu/
Photo by Sheila Webber: autumn flower, red dahlia (possibly "Bishop of Llandaff" according to Google images), September 2022

16th European Conference on Games Based Learning

The 16th European Conference on Games Based Learning takes place 6-7 October 2022, in Lisbon, Portugal, but you can participate online (though I'm not sure whether all the tracks are being streamed).The information is at https://www.academic-conferences.org/conferences/ecgbl/ecgbl-programme/

Freedom of expression, media and Information literacy and digital competencies to support peace and human rights

A recent 16-page publication from UNESCO is Freedom of expression, media and Information literacy and digital competencies to support peace and human rights: thematic paper (Available in English and French). It is one of several "thematic papers developed by UNESCO to inform the Revision of the 1974 Recommendation concerning education for international understanding, co-operation and peace". It summarises key changes in the communication landscape since 1974, identifies the role of Media and Information Literacy (and addresses some ther topics, such as developing digital competencies) and has recommendations on how the 1974 recommendations could be revised. It includes a reference list. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000381532
Photo by Sheila Webber: September sky, 2022

Webinars: C&RL One-Shots Special Issue Conversations #CRLOneShots

Following on from Thursday's post, there are 2 webinars in which you can "meet the authors" of the special "critiquing the one shot" issue of College and Research Libraries.
C&RL One-Shots Special Issue Conversations, Part 1. 21 October 2022, 13.00 US Central time (which is, e.g., 19.00 UK time). "Authors will discuss their articles, respond to questions, and engage with participants" Panelists include: Annie Pho, Wynn Tranfield, and Doug Worsham; Dani Brecher Cook; Sofia Leung; Karen P. Nicholson & Maura Seale; Lalitha Nataraj; Sajni Lacey. Moderated by Nicole Pagowsky.
Go to https://arizona.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvdeuurTMpHNEvPvfF0qdOJWM4aWHd8reH 

C&RL One-Shots Special Issue Conversations, Part 2. 16 November 2022, 13.00 US Central time (which is, e.g., 19.00 UK time). Panelists include: Kristina Clement; Yi Ding; Veronica Arellano Douglas & Joanna Gadsby; Nora Almeida; Urszula Lechtenberg & Carrie Donovan; Gina Schlesselman-Tarango & Monideepa Becerra. Moderated by Nicole Pagowsky.
Go to https://arizona.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqfuuvrTMpGdQhOoCAOamJeEI5T4QyABr1 

You are welcome to submit questions ahead of time, for either session, here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScspp5Z-kuUnR26Mc_VVk5Iprgy7FMHefeIPRZGi-mOY_o01g/viewform?usp=sf_link

Photo by Sheila Webber: Flowers at the farmers market, August 2022

#CEDMO Conference - Europe tackles Infrmation Chaos

The CEDMO Conference: Europe tackles Infrmation Chaos takes place 22-23 September 2022, organised by the Central European Digital Media Observatory. The physical conference (in Prague) is sold out, but you can register for online free.The parallel sessions are:
(22 September) Impact of Disinformation on Society; Changing Hearts and Minds? The Role of Fact-checking; Technology and AI; Look Who’s Talking: Chinese and Russian Propaganda and Disinformation in Europe
(23 September) Disinformation, Media Freedom and Journalism; Ukraine and COVID-19 - Challenges and Lessons Learned; Media and Information Literacy in the Age of Global Crisis and Confrontations; Epistemic Democracy.
Go to https://cedmohub.eu/cedmo-international-conference/

UNESCO's Media and Information Literacy initiatives #MILCLICKS

Today I was invited to speak at the webinar: Building a Media, Digital and Information Literate Scotland organised by Scotland’s Information Literacy Community of Practice and CILIP Scotland. Below are my slides and these are the links and references. 

Main UNESCO MIL site: https://www.unesco.org/en/communication-information/media-information-literacy/about 
Short Twitter video https://twitter.com/MILCLICKS/status/1319605689690562563
UNESCO MILA: https://en.unesco.org/themes/media-and-information-literacy/gapmil
Global MIL week: https://www.unesco.org/en/media-information-literacy-week
MIL CLICKS: https://en.unesco.org/MILCLICKS

Doyle, A. (2019). Analyzing the laws of MIL: a Five-step scientific conversation on critical information literacy. Communications in Information Literacy, 13(1), 114-126. https://doi.org/10.15760/comminfolit.2019.13.1.8
Garner, S. (2005). High-Level Colloquium on Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning: Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt: November 6-9, 2005. http://eprints.rclis.org/3829/1/alexfinalreport.pdf
Grizzle, A. et al. (2013). Media and Information Literacy: policy and strategy guidelines.  https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000225606
Grizzle, A. et al. (2021). Media and information literate citizens: think critically, click wisely! Media & information literacy curriculum for educators and learners. ISBN 978-92-3-100448-3. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000377068.locale=en
Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2022). Paradoxes of media and information literacy: the crisis of information. Routledge.
Owens-Ibie, N. (Ed) (2019). Media and information literacy: non-formal education guide for all platforms. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000372417
UNESCO. (2005). Beacons of the Information Society: The Alexandria Proclamation on Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning. https://www.ifla.org/publications/beacons-of-the-information-society-the-alexandria-proclamation-on-information-literacy-and-lifelong-learning/
UNESCO. (2020). Evaluation of UNESCO’s work in the thematic area of media and information literacy (MIL). https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000374972
UNESCO. (2022). Global Standards for Media and Information Literacy Curricula Development Guidelines. Available here
UNESCO. (2019). Global Framework for Media and Information Literacy Cities (MIL Cities). https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/global_framework_for_mil_cities.pdf
UNESCO Communication and Information Sector. (2013). Global Media and Information Literacy Assessment Framework: country readiness and competencies. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000224655
UNESCO Section for Global Citizenship and Peace Education. (2022). Addressing conspiracy theories: what teachers need to know. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000381958
Yanaze, M. & Chibás, F. (2020). From smart cities to MIL cities. https://www.academia.edu/43369259/FROM_SMART_CITIES_TO_MIL_CITIES_Metrics_inspired_by_the_vision_of_UNESCO 

UNESCO - Media and Information Literacy initiatives from Sheila Webber

New articles: Disrupting Narratives of the One-Shot Instruction Model

The new issue of open-access College and Research Libraries (Vol 83, No 5, 2022) is a special issue focusing on: Critique as Care: Disrupting Narratives of the One-Shot Instruction Model. It includes the following articles - go to https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/issue/view/1623/showToc to access them
- Annie Pho, Salma Abumeeiz, Kristina Vela Bisbee, Nisha Mody, Renee Romero, Wynn Tranfield, and Doug Worsham. You Only Get One Shot: Critically Exploring and Reimagining the One-Shot Instruction Model.
- Dani Brecher Cook. Is the Library One-Shot Effective? A Meta-Analytic Study.
- Sofia Leung. The Futility of Information Literacy & EDI: Toward What?
- Karen P. Nicholson and Maura Seale. Information Literacy, Diversity, and One-Shot ‘Pedagogies of the Practical’.
- Zoe Bastone and Kristina Clement. Serving Everyone or Serving No One? Examining the Faux-Equity of the One-Shot.
- Yi Ding. Feminized Flexibility, One-Shot, and Library Professionalism: Oxymoron or Opportunity?
- Veronica Arellano Douglas and Joanna Gadsby.The Power of Presence: One-Shots, Relational Teaching, and Instruction Librarianship.
- Lalitha Nataraj and April Ibarra Siqueiros. ‘Slow Your Roll’: Making Time for Reflection and Diverse Epistemic Practices in Library Instruction.
- Nora Almeida. Library Tautology: A Reenactment of the One-Shot.
- Urszula Lechtenberg and Carrie Donovan. Undoing Our Instructional Past: Envisioning New Models for Information Literacy.
- Sajni Lacey. Racial Imposter Syndrome, White Presenting, and Burnout in the One-Shot Classroom.
- Gina Schlesselman-Tarango and Monideepa Becerra. The Critical Information Literacy Leadership Institute as Alternative to the One-Shot: Q & A with a Faculty Partner.
- Colleen Hoelscher. One-Shots in Special Collections and Archives: Moving from Gatekeeper to Guide.
- Michele Santamaria and Jessica Schomberg. It Doesn’t Matter How Many ‘Doses’: One-Shots Aren’t Cures.
Photo by Sheila Webber: Another August sky, 2022

Call for papers & registration: Western Balkan Information and Media Literacy Conference 2022

The Western Balkan Information and Media Literacy Conference 2022, theme Information Literacy: combatting disinformation, working for truth in a Digital World, takes place on 8-9 December 2022 in Bihać, Bosnia & Herzegovina, together with the 11th International Summit of the Book 2022.
The deadline for abstracts is 23 October 2022 (for Presentation, Roundtable discussion, Poster session, Workshops, Symposia or PechaKucha) and the list of possible topics (very wide ranging)  is at https://www.wbimlc.org/topics.
Keynote Speakers are Ismail Serageldin, Founding Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina; Serap Kurbanoğlu, Professor at the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University, Turkey; Sonja Špiranec, Professor at the Department of Information & Communication Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia.
The website with more information is at https://www.wbimlc.org/

Photo by Sheila Webber: rosehips, September 2022

How to report misinformation online

The World Health Organization has a site: How to report misinformation online which has links to the pages on various social media that give instructions on how to report misinformation https://www.who.int/campaigns/connecting-the-world-to-combat-coronavirus/how-to-report-misinformation-online

Photo by Sheila Webber: duck, August 2022