Olivier Le Deuff's thesis (2009) is available online (in French), dealing with the concept "La culture de l'information" including its relationship with information literacy and transliteracy.
A new book coauthored by a subject librarian and a Senior Lecturer in Sport Politics and Policy.
The most recent (2009) free issue of SCONUL focus includes
Christine Irving came to talk to my Information Literacy Research students last Thursday (she is pictured here with this Masters-level class: she is in the middle of the front row). She has been working with the Scottish Information Literacy Project, which sadly has now come to a close at Glasgow Caledonian University after five years.
On Tuesday I was liveblogging at the Beyond Borders conference held at Oxford University, where the topic was OER (Open Educational Resources). As it wasn't centrally about information literacy, I've blogged it elsewhere, however it obviously has connections with information use, issues of plagiarism and intellectual property, and (centrally) pedagogy. The conference website is at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/beyond2010/, the Twitter feed was at http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23beyond2010.
Librarians as Teachers: The New Professionals? is on 26th May organised by CDG West Midlands and UC&R West Midlands section at Warwick University, Coventry, UK. There is a free place is open to current library and information students (full or part-time) who are CILIP West Midlands branch members and also members of either the CDG or UC&R Group. In return for the event place, the successful applicant is required to submit a reflective account of their event experience within one month of attendance, for intended inclusion in Group and regional publications. To apply for this free place, please provide a statement not exceeding 100 words on why you wish to attend and how the event will benefit your career and professional development, together with details of:
A new report usefully brings together findings from 12 recent studies on information behaviour and library use in the tertiary education sector. The studies are summarised, common findings identified, and implications for libraries proposed.
This is a new free guide by the Research Information Network. Peer review: a guide for researchers summarises the peer review process for articles and research proposals, and has sections addressing the costs and possible alternatives. I introduce the concept of peer review to my students as part of discussing evaluation and selection of sources, and I might refer them to this new document now. A lot of the material discussing peer review is complex (being aimed at academics) and therefore not suitable for this purpose, so up until now I have actually found the Wikipedia entry on peer review one of the most appropriate for students.
At 12 noon Second Life time (8pm UK time, see http://tinyurl.com/yghsjlh for times in other parts of the world) on Thursday 8th April, in the virtual world Second Life, there will be a one hour report/discussion on the LILAC conference. This year the LILAC conference (the UK's information literacy conference) took place 29-31 March 2010
Presseurop was a joint winner of the 2010 Awards for European Information Sources. It presents selected news from 250 sources, and translates them all into a number of European languages. I thought it could be useful for media literacy education, since obviously the news items from different countries all have a different cultural and political slant. The English language version is at http://www.presseurop.eu/en
The 9th NordINFOLIT Information Literacy Summer School is 7-11 June 2010, in Finland, held in English. The title is Transformation from Digital Library to Digital Learning "The theme of the course will be learning processes and tools in the digital world" "The summer school will consist of practical hands-on work with a variety of web-based tools for teaching and learning. At the same time the teaching relates to relevant learning theories." Registration by 12 April, and the full programme is on the website:
