Paul Zurkowski video #lilac14

Paul Zurkowski is widely credited with coining the term "information literacy" (regular readers will remember fangirl moments when he was keynote at last year's ECIL). He produced a 13 minute video for the LILAC 2014 conference. In it he talks about the early years of the Information Industry Association and how he came to talk about infolit. He goes on to discuss the problem of information overload and his plans for the Information Action Coalition.

#lilac14 - some presentations and reports

The LILAC team has already put presentations and posters from the LILAC conference on Slideshare, with many there already. I will highlight a few I found on LILAC's Slideshare, plus a few other non-Slideshare items that I discovered myself.
1. The official LILAC 2014 conference page which the presentations etc.link from: http://www.lilacconference.com/WP/past-conferences/lilac-2014/

2. CILIP IL Group/LILAC Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/infolit_group

3. Alison Head's keynote, Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research, which got a lot of positive tweets: http://www.slideshare.net/infolit_group/truth-be-told-how-todays-students-conduct-research-keynote-alison-head

4. A couple of other Slideshares from the LILAC page (picked out because they caught my eye + there was enough text to tell what the presentation was about. Increasing numbers of presentations are rather enigmatic in themselves: it is great that people aren't crowding out their presentations with text nowadays, but having practically no text makes them less useful afterwards....)
- An ID&AL Loop - David Parkes and Alison Pope (about feedback and "better grade" events at Staffordshire University): http://www.slideshare.net/infolit_group/an-idal-loop-david-parkes-alison-pope
- Launching high school teaching support at the University of Oslo Science Library - Anders Mattias Lundmark and Jessica Lönn-Stensrud: http://www.slideshare.net/infolit_group/launching-high-school-teaching-support-at-the-university-of-oslo-science-library-anders-mattias-lundmark-jessica-lnnstensrud
- Between the sheets: the affordances and limitations of social reading tools and their potential role in developing critical and information literacy skills - Alison Sharman: http://www.slideshare.net/infolit_group/sharman-34170677
- Information literacy when there is no information: the case of rare and orphan diseases - Hannah Spring: http://www.slideshare.net/infolit_group/spring-34170376

5. A video from Andrew Walsh, related to his LILAC session, which gives definitions of play, games and gamification and examples of games and gamification in information literacy and libraries. Walsh, Andrew (2014) Playing with Information Literacy. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/20022/

6. A blog post from Brian Kelly: Capturing the Conference Buzz: #LILAC14 as an Example http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/capturing-the-conference-buzz-lilac14-as-an-example/ from whom I found out about :
- LILAC 2014, Sheffield Hallam University: a Storify by Clare McCluskey/ @librarygirl79 https://storify.com/librarygirl79/lilac-2014

7. Jonathan White's collection of notes on the LILAC conference (including notes on the presentations by Head, by Walsh and by Sharman which are linked above): https://www.evernote.com/pub/jonwhite82/lilac2014
Photo by Sheila Webber: Yellow rose and insect, Gravesend, May 2014

Information Literacy Practitioner award winner #lilac14

Congratulations to Jane Secker (LSE), who won the Information Literacy Practitioner of the year award (a nice picture here) and Nazlin Bhimani (Institute of Education) who was runner up. These were presented last night at the LILAC conference dinner.

More snippets from #lilac14

Links garnered from Twitterfeeds etc. from LILAC
- Preparing our users for digital life beyond the institution: a LILAC poster from Brian Kelly and Jenny Evans: this link also has a blog post from Brian explaining the issue http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/lilac-2014-preparing-our-users-for-digital-life-beyond-the-institution/
- InFlow (Information Flow): An integrated model of applied information literacy: Sarah McNicol: http://content.resourceshare.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/10949/18528
- University of Manchester's My Learning Essentials website, with sets of tutorials about e.g. Writing Skills (e.g. Proofreading), Finding Information http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/academicsupport/mylearningessentials/
Photo by Sheila Webber: lilac.

#lilac14 spotted via twitter

A few links etc. that I have spotted on the LILAC conference twitterfeed:
- An Assignments tutorial/advice site from University Campus Suffolk: http://www.ucselevate.co.uk/atk/
- Skills For Learning publications from Leeds Metropolitan University (e.g. The Little Book of Skills for Learning; Quote, unquote (on referencing): http://skillsforlearning.leedsmet.ac.uk/publications.shtml
- Poster (not actually from LILAC): Social literacy, professional identity and the personal brand for the socially-impaired by Penny Andrews http://figshare.com/articles/Social_literacy_professional_identity_and_the_personal_brand_for_the_socially_impaired/691028
Photo by Sheila Webber: Lilac, Charlton, April 2014

wikipedia @ #lilac14

The LILAC conference starts tomorrow (23rd April). I'm not there this year, although colleagues Barbara Sen and Pamela McKinney are, and one of my PhD students, Kondwani Wella is also presenting. You can follow using the hashtag #lilac14. A quick search on slideshare showed two presentations due to be given, both on Wikipedia (with one common author, Nancy Graham!)

Getting to Grips with Wikipedia: a Practical Session from Brian Kelly

Wikipedia and information literacy - LILAC 2014 from Andrew Gray