My next post sharing a preview of colleagues' LILAC conference presentations is from Dr Pamela McKinney, about a session which be on day 3 of the conference (1st April), Reflections from the next generation of IL educators (the abstract is here). Pam writes:
This LILAC presentation will focus on the design and delivery of the Information Literacy module at the University of Sheffield, which was originally designed by Sheila Webber and is now co-taught by Pam McKinney, Sheila Webber and Pete Holdridge. The module is core in semester 1 for students on the on-campus Librarianship and the distance learning Library and Information Services Management programmes. This presentation extends the work that Sheila and I have done to promote the pedagogical approach we adopt in the module to support the next generation of IL educators, for example, with a chapter for the ACRL book “The Grounded Instruction Librarian: Participating in The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning” and conference presentations at the 2017 ECIL conference and 2016 Creating Knowledge conference and the 2018 LILAC conference.
This presentation highlights the voices of students who have studied the module either on-campus or as a distance learner. Students were invited to contribute, and were offered a variety of ways in which to do that. Seven students volunteered: three have created short videos that will be embedded into the conference presentations, one studnet has created an interactive element, and three have contributed slides - 2 of whom will be able to attend in person. Continuing our focus on the value of reflection, students have offered reflections on the aspects of the module they found personally meaningful and influential, for their current or future practice. I’m very much looking forward to sharing their views with the LILAC conference.
Photo by Sheila Webber: cherry blossom in Sheffield city centre, March 2026 - Sheffield is the venue for LILAC this year
