Yesterday the guest speaker in my Information Literacy Research class was Jacqui Weetman, from De Montfort University, Leicester. She came to discuss her research: the key results are in the paper:Weetman, J. (2005) “Osmosis: Does It Work for the Development of Information Literacy?” The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 31 (5), 456–460.
There is a shorter version free on the web:
Weetman, J. (2005) The ‘Seven pillars of wisdom’ model: a case study to test academic staff perceptions. SCONUL focus, (34), 31-36. Available from http://www.sconul.ac.uk/pubs_stats/newsletter/34/
There were the 10 students in my class (100% turnout!) and Pam Bing, from CILASS (see previous entry), so as usual with this class we sat in a circle and Jacqui described her research and in particular, as we were focusing on questionnaires this week, on issues to do with questionnaire design. Jacqui had, as part of her work for her part time MBA, administered a questionnaire to level 3 course leaders at De Montfort University, asking them about how important they thought information literacy was, whether they taught and assessed it etc. Since it had emerged that the lecturers thought that it was pretty important, but teaching and assessing it were not so widely done, it had impacted information literacy policy in the university. She also mentioned some more recent developments: a couple of questionnaires to specific departments, and the fact that information literacy is now being included in the University's Programme Development Handbook (which people developing new courses are supposed to refer to).
There is also one of Jacqui Weetman's presentations on the web:
- What do architecture staff really think about information literacy? Presented at the ARCLIB 2005 Conference, July 13th-15th, University College, Dublin. http://www.livjm.ac.uk/lea/misc/weetman.ppt
Photo by S. Webber: Snowy leaves, Englisher Garten, Munich, Feb 2006.
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