Elizabeth Gross (speaking) and her colleagues, Ashley Crane, Heather Adair spoke about their project to visualise information literacy with library science students. In the school context, the librarian is the only person expected to be fully information literate, but many students who want to be school librarians are there because they are passionate about reading, not because they are interested in information literacy. They wanted to examine school library students' ability to teach information literacy through screencast videos. Many of their students are teachers who want to move away from teaching, but they need training in how to be a librarian. They collected the videos that students created for a class, which were 1-3 minute screencasts showing IL skills e.g. provide a demo of a search and provide a commentary.
Technical content was a strength, but some of the examples used by students weren't very aligned with learners' needs, and some videos were very long. Elizabeth showed an example video created by one of the student librarians. Some of the students produced videos that had outdated authenticity markers. The resources had unclear differentiation between websites, databases and curated resources. Many assumed that learners "just know" what's credible. There was little articulation of learner characteristics or learning outcomes.
The recommendations for the programme are to infuse information literacy more intentionally throughout the programme. The team need to provide some examples of good videos for students. Creating video resources is a useful skill for school librarians.
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