Information Literacy: recognising the need

A one-day conference with this title will be held at Staffordshire University (Stoke Campus), UK, on Wednesday 17th May 2006.

The provisional list of speakers is:
- Susie Andretta, Senior Lecturer in Information Management, London MetropolitanUniversity.
- Moira Bent, Liaison Librarian, University of Newcastle and National Learning and Teaching Fellow.
- Debbi Boden, Faculty Team Leader at Imperial College London.
- Sheila Corrall, Sheila Corrall is Professor of Librarianship & Information Management atthe University of Sheffield.
- Peter Godwin, Academic Services Manager, in Learning & Information Services at London South Bank University.
- Mark Hepworth, Lecturer in the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University.
- Sheila Webber, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Studies at theUniversity of Sheffield (i.e. me ;-)

Further details, including a call for papers, will be issued in the near future. For further information and a provisional booking please contact: Geoff Walton g.l.walton@staffs.ac.uk or Alison Pope a.j.pope@staffs.ac.uk

(Photo by S. Webber: Boats on Lake Ashi, Hakone district, Japan, July 2005)