Information Literacy Network of the Gulf Region annual conference

The Information Literacy Network of the Gulf Region (http://ilngulf.org/Default.aspx) is holding its annual conference this weekend, 30-31 October, at Dubai Women’s College (DWC). The keynote speaker is Debra Gilchrist and there are a number of workshops, with a particular focus on assessment.

Information Literacy Network of the Gulf Region

Zayed University, Dubai, organised the First Information Literacy Network Professional Development Conference on December 8 and 9 2007. The programme (together with a list of participants in the Gulf IL network ) are the main items currently on the website of the recently formed Information Literacy Network of the Gulf Region, at http://www.informationliteracynetwork.net/ The confrence included a focus on Web 2.0 and also a focus on case studies from the region. It will be interesting if presentations and proceedings become available.
Photo by Sheila Webber: Lingfield racecourse as the sun goes down, December 2007.

Italics special issue

I think I missed the Italics special issue in December 2006 (Volume 5 Issue 4) which had articles for the eLIT conference. These include Peter Godwin's "Information literacy in the age of amateurs: How Google and Web 2.0 affect librarians’ support of Information Literacy"; Anne Dickinson's "Transition to the next generation of e-learning: using mind mapping and accessible web pages as part of a university’s academic staff training"; Hesham Azmi's "Teaching Information Literacy Skills: A case study of the QUcore program in Qatar University"; and Ruth Hunn and Darien Rossiter's "Design and development of an online information literacy tutorial: evaluation and lessons learnt (so far) ." http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/italics/vol5iss4.htm

Photo by Sheila Webber: Owl fountain, Geneva, February 2007.