Today's main events included a virtual conference featuring voices of young people from around the world, with the theme Global Media and Information Literacy Week meets World Cities Day (Youth). You can find the full recording on Facebook at https://fb.watch/gw1pWNopyF/ on the MILCLICKS Facebook page.
The United Kingdom's Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport has celebrated Global Media and Information Literacy Week by announcing funding for 17 organisations to fund media literacy projects. The focus is on combatting misinformation and it is "part of the government’s Online Media Literacy Strategy to help people be safe online". You can find the details at https://www.gov.uk/government/news/help-for-vulnerable-people-to-spot-disinformation-and-boost-online-safety
A free webinar on 28 October 2022 at 10.00-11.00 BST (UK time: see https://tinyurl.com/28Oct22time for times elsewhere).
Dr Viviane Hessami (Monash University, Australia) will present her research: The Use of Notebooks by Bangladeshi Village Women to Backup Digital Data and
Dr Sara Vannini (University of Sheffield, UK) will present on The information practices and politics of migrant-aid work in the US-Mexico borderlands.
The webinar is chaired by Dr Andrea Jimenez (Information School, University of Sheffield, UK).
The webinar is organised by ASIS&T’s European Chapter & The Information School, University of Sheffield. It also celebrates Global Media and Information Literacy Week (24-31 October 2022).
The Zoom link for the session is given in this flyer: https://tinyurl.com/28Oct22flyer
About Dr Viviane Hessami:
Dr Hessami is a Lecturer and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia. She is researching the information access and information preservation needs and preferences of marginalised rural communities with the aim to design a framework for culturally-sensitive and gender-sensitive information dissemination and information preservation. Viviane has multidisciplinary expertise in archival science, political science, Asian studies and community informatics. https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/viviane-hessami
Hessami's presentation will highlight the importance of planning for the sustainability of information and supporting grassroots initiatives to preserve information when working with marginalized communities. The presentation will bring up untold stories of marginalized communities who used simple analogue technologies to backup information provided to them in digital form in an ICT4D project in rural Bangladesh. This will illustrate the importance of information sustainability for marginalized communities who have limited access to information and the need to use methods that are culturally-sensitive when providing information to marginalized communities.
About Dr Sara Vannini:
Dr Vannini is a Lecturer/Assistant Professor at the University of Sheffield Information School, UK. Her research is at the intersection of critical studies of technology and society, information and communication technologies and social change, and information ethics. In particular,she focuses on social appropriation of technologies, information privacy in the context of migration, the role of public access to information in mis/dis-information, online learning, and participatory and visual methodologies of inquiry. http://www.saravannini.com/wordpress/
In her presentation, Vannini will address the issue of information sharing in a situation where there are strong privacy and confidentiality issues.Organizers and volunteers work across organizational boundaries to provide humanitarian aid to undocumented migrants along the US-Mexico border and share information informally. However, resistance to information-sharing between organizations (and to the public), especially through technologically mediated means, is common, because of the need to protect the privacy and confidentiality of migrants. Vannini will discuss the strategies employed and underlying issues.
A free webinar on 24 November 2022 14.15-15.00 UK time (GMT) is Media literacy activities and resources for librarians, with presentation by the Behind the Headlines iniative "The Guardian Foundation’s NewsWise and Behind the Headlines have a range of fun and engaging activities and resources that can be used to support young people aged 7-18 in a variety of different contexts and environments. In this special session for librarians we will share structured activities that you can adapt and replicate with families and young people as well as ready-to-go individual resources and ideas. " Register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/media-literacy-activities-and-resources-for-librarians-tickets-435658776127
Photo by Sheila Webber: Lost owl plush, September 2022. Part of the lost item series.
There has been a first Call for Papers
for the 8th European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL) which will be held 9-12 October 2023 in Krakow, Poland. It is co-organised by the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe
University (Turkey), Department of Information and Communication Sciences of
Zagreb University (Croatia), the Information Literacy Association and the hosts, Jagiellonian University (Poland). The main theme is
Experiencing Information and Information Literacy. The conference management system opens in November 2022 and the submission deadline is 22 January 2023.
"ECIL aims to bring together researchers, information professionals,
media specialists, educators, policy makers and all other related
parties from around the world to exchange knowledge and experience and
discuss recent developments and current challenges in both theory and
practice." You can make a proposal for: full papers, posters, PechaKucha, best practices, workshops, panels, invited talks, and doctoral forum. Essentially, any topic connected with information literacy is relevant to the conference. There is more detail on the conference website: http://ecil2023.ilconf.org/
A couple of recent articles:
- Bussmann, J. D., Altamirano, I. M., Hansen, S., Johnson, N. E., & Keer, G. (2022). Science librarianship and social justice: Part four capstone concepts. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 100. https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/istl/index.php/istl/article/view/2697/2711 The concepts summarised here include Social Justice Pedagogies and Universal Design. (open access)
- Gil, E.L. (2022). A citation analysis of MBA bibliographies: A case study. Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship [early online publication] https://doi.org/10.1080/08963568.2022.2129275
"This research was initiated to identify the type of sources that online MBA students in a required marketing class cited in their final papers. It also sought to discover whether they included any of the Libraries’ subscription databases in their bibliographies, especially IBISWorld and ReferenceUSA, which were the focus of two asynchronous video tutorials that were created for this course. The author used citation analysis to do this. Results showed that students overwhelmingly used Company websites."
The Peer Reviewed Instructional Materials Online (PRIMO) Committee of the ACRL Instruction Section invites people to submit their "online information literacy tutorial, virtual tour, or other online library instruction project for review and possible inclusion in PRIMO: Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online." The deadline for nominations is 31 October 2022. You can nominate your own work or some other site. If you get selected you are interviewed and featured on the ACRL Instruction Section website. There is more information at https://acrl.ala.org/IS/instruction-tools-resources-2/pedagogy/primo-peer-reviewed-instruction-materials-online/
A free webinar on 25 October 2022 at 10.00 UK time is Fighting back the Infodemic: CPD opportunities and initiatives for LIS professionals
"In this webinar you will learn more about infodemic as a concept and how we went from fake news to infodemic in the last five years; about training initiatives at the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ASEAN-USAID PROSPECT in Jakarta, Indonesia. You will also hear the clarion call on the role of the librarian in advocacy and the skills needed to fight infodemic and infobesity. "
This webinar is organized by IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workforce Learning (CPDWL) Section in support of the Global Media and Information Literacy Week (Oct 24–31).
Register at
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WK8l3FeYQUmRtMakzE_sbg#/registration More information at ifla.org/jD70t
An online workshop from search expert Phil Bradley on 20 October 12 noon - 13.00 UK time is Google Search Power Hour. The cost is £35.
"Are you getting as much out of Google as you possibly can? Google offers many different search options which are not automatically obvious, and if you don’t know what and where are they, you are condemned to a life of poor searching!"
"In this Zoom run online Power Hour you will learn not only the basics of constructing an effective Google search, but you’ll also have the opportunity to see the advanced search functionality that Google offers."
"Why attend? At the end of the hour you will have learned how to streamline your search techniques, leading to faster and more effective results. You’ll save time when searching and you’ll be able to trust the results that you’re getting!
"What’s a Power Hour? Power Hour training is designed to give you exactly 60 minutes of high-value content. Delegates may ask questions in the chat log, and if I can answer them directly I will, but if not the questions andanswers will be addressed via email to all delegates after the session. Delegates will also receive a copy of the PowerPoint presentation used as the basis of the session. If delegates wish to record the session for their own personal use later they are welcome to do so."
Register and pay via Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/google-search-power-hour-tickets-412737297367 Questions to informationtrainingteam@gmail.com
There is a free webinar organised by the ACRL Contemplative Pedagogy Interest Group on 13 October 13 2022 at 2pm US Eastern time (which is, e.g., 7pm UK time): Being Present, Supporting Presence: Ideas for Online Teaching and Facilitation. It is presented by Rebecca French and Jody Fagan (James Madison University Libraries, USA)
"Although many campuses are returning to in-person classes and meetings, plenty of libraries are still holding events online. How can you as a facilitator or teacher be more fully present when leading or teaching online? How can you support attendees' ability to be present themselves, and for all to find human-to-human connection in virtual spaces?
"This program will cover: Planning and preparation work to support your presence as a facilitator and the needs of the group, considering the learning objectives or meeting goals; Activities for opening and closing online events in a way that invites presence and connection;
Practices for maintaining presence throughout the meeting or class;
Challenges and potential pitfalls that can arise when opening up opportunities to be present with one another.
"Attendees can expect interaction and reflection throughout this session, as well as the opportunity to share and learn from colleagues' experiences with bringing more presence to online meetings, classes, and other gatherings. The speakers will draw from their experience in academic libraries, but content may be adaptable for other
postsecondary education contexts." The zoom link is given at
https://connect.ala.org/acrl/discussion/new-zoom-information-for-cpig-program-on-1013-being-present-supporting-presence-ideas-for-online-teaching-and-facilitation
Photo by Sheila Webber: autumn cosmos, September 2022
An interesting full text Masters thesis I just noticed:
Ford, J.T. (2022). Indigenous voices informing academic information literacy: critical discourses, relationality, and indigeneity for the good of the whole. (MLIS thesis)
University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Abstract "Instructional librarianship in public post-secondary institutions requires that librarians be responsive to a diversity of paradigms and student needs, including Indigenous contexts. Although constrained by institutional infrastructures, Indigenous research methodologies and epistemologies provide frameworks for Indigenous librarians and students to practice and support inquiry in ways that are responsive to their culturally-specific needs. Currently, research in the field of library and information science about how Indigenous research methodologies and epistemologies can support academic librarianship is limited, especially concerning how Indigenous voices can inform information literacy as a whole. For this study, 4 Indigenous LIS and academic professionals and an Apache-Comanche Elder were interviewed. These semi-structured interviews were then analyzed to better understand how Indigenous voices can inform information literacy in the public academy. Responses were coded using thematic analysis. Results demonstrate that Indigenous voices can inform information literacy in consideration of relevancy, value neutrality, positionality, through being critical of hegemonic infrastructures including technology, prioritizing native voices, braiding knowledge systems, and centering relationality. These results hold implications for strategic planning, curriculum development, and informing social paradigms that support Indigenous people in post-secondary education while addressing issues in modernity for the good of the whole."
https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/6f65acc4-e195-44e2-92cc-68f81671c2f1/content
Photo by Sheila Webber: the first apples picked from my tree (red devils), September 2022
There is a call from the Nordic Journal of Library and Information Studies (NJLIS), for articles on the theme of Library and information studies in the climate crisis.
The deadline for full papers is 28 February, 2023.
"As people and institutions struggle to make sense of new ecological realities, LIS scholars can make an important contribution to addressing these ongoing crises by contributing to a conceptually informed understanding of how people in different roles and various social actors create, engage with, make sense of, implement or reject environmental information.
What kind of environmental information practices are prevalent among different social groups and why? How do people interact with information with regards to climate-related issues? How do libraries as institutions transform their practices in the wake of the climate crisis? To what extent can we speak of emerging environmental literacies? What is the role of search engines in highlighting environment-related search queries?" There are a lot of suggested themes including: Search engines and environmental information; Environmental information practices; Environmental literacy; The role of algorithmic platforms in shaping environmental information; Information avoidance and climate chang.
For more information go to https://tidsskrift.dk/njlis/announcement/view/1020
Photo by Sheila Webber: squirrel in search of autumn nuts, September 2022