The ACRL (North American academic librarians) conference just took place in Portland, USA. As usual there were sessions relevant to information literacy. The conference Twitter is https://twitter.com/ACRL2015 and the hashtag was https://twitter.com/hashtag/acrl2015?f=realtime.
There is a page with links to full papers from presenters (not all, I think, but quite a lot) at http://acrl.learningtimesevents.org/proceedings/ Examples of papers linked from this proceedings page (which are listed in alphabetical order of title) are:
- Information Use during the First College Year: Findings from the NSSE Experiences with Information Literacy Module by Kevin Fosnacht
- Leading Them to Water and Making Them Drink: Flipping Instruction by Laura Heinz and Donell Callender
- Measuring Our Information Literacy Footprint: Assessing Game-Based Learning in Library Instruction by Katelyn Angell and Eamon C. Tewell
- New Roles for the Road Ahead: Essays Commissioned for ACRL’s 75th Anniversary by Steven Bell, Lorcan Dempsey, and Barbara Fister
- Patterns in Information Literacy Instruction: What’s Really Going on in Our Classrooms? by Pearl Herscovitch, Margy MacMillan, and Sara Sharun
- Promoting Transferable Research Skills: A New Take on English Composition Assessment by Melissa N. Mallon
- Rethinking an Established Information Literacy Program: How Leveraging Assessment Data Can Improve Teaching and Promote Change by Katie Bishop and Eleanor Johnson
- Searching in the Wild: Observing Information-Seeking Behavior in a Discovery Tool by Heather A. Dalal, Amy K. Kimura, and Melissa A. Hofmann
- Self-Beliefs and Course-Related Research: Proposing an Expansion of the Imposed Query Model for Undergraduate Students by Amanda L. Folk
I also picked out a few links relevant to information literacy.
- The session on The Topography of Learning: Using Cognitive Mapping to Evolve and Innovate in the Academic Library, by Donna Lanclos and colleagues, garnered a lot of attention on Twitter. Here is the presentation https://prezi.com/qvhdcuiikine/the-topography-of-learning-using-cognitive-mapping-to-evolve-and-innovate-in-the-academic-library/ and here is a storify by Maura Smale https://storify.com/mauraweb/the-topography-of-learning-using-cognitive-mapping
- Shifting our Focus, Evolving our Practice: A Collaborative Conversation about the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (slides from a panel by Donna Witek Danielle Theiss and Joelle Pitts) http://www.slideshare.net/donnarosemary/shifting-our-focus-evolving-our-practice
- Promoting Data Literacy: teaching and learning with data in the undergraduate classroom (Adam Beauchamp and Christine Murray) http://www.slideshare.net/AdamBeauchamp/acrl2015-data-literacyatthegrassrootsfinal
- Sustaining and enhancing embedded library instruction in the learning management system (Cass Kvenild, Kaijsa Calkins, John Burke, and Beth Tumbleson): http://goo.gl/bCRucw
- A Libguide to accompany a panel on On Campus, Online, Off Hours: Librarian Strategies that Sustain Graduate Student Scholarship and Discourse http://campusguides.stjohns.edu/content.php?pid=663788&sid=5497065
- Description of a teaching intervention by Jennifer Ditkoff: REMIX!! Teaching ethical issues related to digital information creation https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HDPOxJlYD9salNoJWnhW0AfmTdIzAZw609KogrA7GdI/edit
This is the conference wrap video
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