Project Information Literacy retrospective @ProjectInfoLit

I will start my blog posts for 2023 with a retrospective: the report that was posted at the close of the College studies phase of the valuable Project Information Literacy, in October 2022 [apologies, I first put that it was the close of PIL, which isn't the case!]. You can download it in pdf, but the online version https://projectinfolit.org/pubs/retrospective/ is useful in providing easy access to individual PIL reports and other material. It is in the four parts:
1. A brief introduction to the project
2. A handy list of the PIL research reports - each has a band of "sample notes" (with an at-a-glance view of their methods of data collection), the link to the report, and then a short paragraph summarising the results.
3. An interactive data visualisation of citations to the PIL reports, so you can track citations by year, and see from which disciplinary journals the citations are coming, and which countries the research was carried out in, with a discussion of the research's impact. There is a User Guide for Project Information Literacy’s Retrospective Citation Analysis Dataset and you can download the dataset in CSV format.
4. "How we did it" talking about methods and in particular stressing the collaborative approach.
Section 4 includes a table "lessons learned" [for IL research in a higher education context], namely: Start with students; Think long term; Widen the lens (i.e. beyond the immediate academic need); Develop students’ agency (through IL education/research); Foster a collaborative culture.
 

The page with links to all the material is:
Alison J. Head, Barbara Fister, Steven Geofrey, and Margy MacMillan, The Project Information Literacy Retrospective: Insights from more than a decade of information literacy research, 2008-2022 (12 October 2022), Project Information Research Institute, https://projectinfolit.org/publications/retrospective