Recent articles: information behaviour on Tiktok; Misinformation in Brazil; genAI and feeling

These are all open access
- Hendrickx, J. (2024). ‘Normal news is boring’: How young adults encounter and experience news on Instagram and TikTok. New Media & Society, 27(10), 5736-5754. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241255955
- Hassoun, A., Borenstein, G., Osborn, K., McAuliffe, J., & Goldberg, B. (2024). Sowing “seeds of doubt”: Cottage industries of election and medical misinformation in Brazil and the United States. New Media & Society, 27(10), 5710-5735. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241255379
- Given, L. M., Polkinghorne, S., & Ridgway, A. (2025). ‘I think I misspoke earlier. My bad!’: Exploring how generative artificial intelligence tools exploit society’s feeling rules. New Media & Society, 27(10), 5525-5545. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251338276
Photo by Sheila Webber: spot the squirrel, October 2025

#lilac24 Plagiarism and AI tools: An example of linking information- and digital literacy in your teaching

 Pam McKinney from the first session after lunch at the Lilac conference, on Plagiarism and AI tools: An example of linking information- and digital literacy in your teaching by Anna-Lena Hoh. Anna is based in the Netherlands at Maastricht University, which is a very international university. She works across the university supporting digital literacy. There is a cross-institutional working group on digital literacy, and there is activity to develop teaching and support in this area. They use the ACRL definition of information literacy, which seems very standard, but there seems to be a wide range of definitions of digital literacy in use in the Netherlands. Anna spoke of the "battle of the literacies" where there are many competing conceptions and definitions of information and digital literacy. She encouraged us to think about the theoretical similarities between these models, for example, academic digital creation, ethics, safety.  All student assessments are digital, so students need support in using digital tools. 

They run a plagiarism workshop which includes elements of how chat GPT can be used ethically.  They asked students to define how ChatGPT tools fit within current definitions of plagiarism, and look in detail at the current rules and regulations and whether the use of chatGPT is allowed.  The IL team worked with Anna to design teaching around use of AI tools. They did some experimentation with a range of AI tools, to see where they thought they could offer meaningful support for the institution.  They have monthly sessions now for staff to encourage critical appraisal of the tools, and explore disciplinary differences in the tools. There is a need to combine information and digital literacy experts in supporting use of AI in the institution.

New articles: reflecting on IL instruction; librarians as teachers; flipped classroom; copyright; learner confidence; data literacy; IL design

There is a new issue of the open-access Journal of Information Literacy (volume 15 issue 1). The articles and project reports are: 

- Critical discourse analysis as a reflection tool for information literacy instruction by Devina Dandar, Sajni Lacey
- Librarians’ development as teachers by Andrea Baer
- Copyright Dough by Hannah Pyman, Katrine Sundsbø
- A flipped classroom approach to teaching search techniques for systematic reviews to encourage active learning by Karen Poole
- Teaching a one-credit course on data literacy and data visualisation by Tatiana Usova, Robert Laws
- Evaluating confidence in information literacy by David Bedford
- Information-Wise by Jaro Pichel, Barend Last, Julie de Ronde, Alicja Garbaciak, Henrietta Hazen, Stefan Jongen
Go to https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/JIL/issue/view/223   

Photo by Sheila Webber: ex-Xmas trees of South London, January 2021

Recent articles: School libraries around the world; Gamification; Digital literacies; Inquiry approach; Fiction as information

Published online are Proceedings of the 48th Annual Conference of the International Association of School Librarianship and the 23rd International Forum on Research in School Librarianship, held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 21-25, 2019. They include some interesting articles relevant to information literacy. The home page is here: https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/slw/index.php/iasl/index
To pick out a few:
- Fiction as Information: A Look at Reading as Information Source by Mary Ann Harlan. This includes a literature review (looking at reading and information literacy) and a study of 16/17 year olds. (North America) The author concludes " ... that fiction as a form of art is a way to engage our emotions, to explore our world, a way to learn" https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/slw/index.php/iasl/article/view/7378
- Pedagogical centre: A way of empowering and transforming a school library by Therése Haglind, Emmelie Ernst, Ulrika Boström (Sweden) "This paper will present a process of development, successful in our school; a cooperation between Pedagogical centre, teachers and management" https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/slw/index.php/iasl/article/view/7369
- School library concepts developed by an inquiry-approach curriculum organization by User experiences and perceptions about the Ideal Libraries document of the International Baccalaureate by Anthony Tilke (Netherlands) https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/slw/index.php/iasl/article/view/7398
- Gamification in School Libraries by Dejan Šiptar (Croatia) https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/slw/index.php/iasl/article/view/7389
- Digital and information literacies and the school library: A case study by Yvonne L Barrett (Turkey) https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/slw/index.php/iasl/article/view/7384
- School Library Perspectives from Asia: Trends, Innovations and Challenges in Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan by Chin Ee Loh, Annie Tam, Daisuke Okada (not about IL< but useful background) https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/slw/index.php/iasl/article/view/7258
Photo by Sheila Webber: Farmers' market, February 2020

Reading Express; service for newcomers and refugees #WLIC2016

the IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Columbus, USA. In a session on libraries and the UN 2030 goals, Ingrid Bon (Rijnbrink, Netherlands - she presented) and Karien van Buuren (Rijnbrink, Netherlands) had authored Reading Express; service for newcomers and refugees (full paper at http://library.ifla.org/1333/1/081-bon-en.pdf)
This was a project "Voorlees Express", in the Netherlands. It was about a reading programme, carried out in the home or shelter where the refugee families live. The aim is reading to children, with the parents/carers there, to get a reading culture. There are a lot of aspects which the library offering the programme has to deal with: PR, getting funding, recruiting families, recruiting and training reader volunteers and quality control.
They aim to have 250 "matches" (reader-family) per season, with readings in Spring and in Autumn. Although there are volunteers, this is not free of cost. The costs are seen as part of ongoing reading programme. It does take up staff time (including training, getting official documents). However, this programme is seen as very important: making new entrants to the country feel at home, improve language skills, start a reading culture, get connection to the library, improve school performance and last but not least it is important that it is fun.
Also there is a new initiative with young adults, to help them improve their pronunciation of Dutch (which is so important for learning and employment): the results of this have been fast and obvious. They have had a pilot, and hope now for extra funding. Again, do look at the paper which has more information (this was the last paper in the session, and the speaker very effectively shortened her talk to finish within time, but it meant I couldn't capture everything).
Photo by Sheila Webber: therapy dog, WLIC 2016

IFLA papers: literacy

There are some full papers relating to literacy and information literacy already available, that will be presented at the IFLA conference next month:
- MUSEMBURI, Darlington and NHENDO, Collen (2016) “Information literacy for all”: Interfacing academic and public librarians in developing a legal information literate society in Zimbabwe. Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2016 – Columbus, OH – Connections. Collaboration. Community
- LANGENDONK, Adriaan and BON, Ingrid (2016) Literacy Matters: Strategies and best practice initiatives for supporting development through literacy and reading in the Netherlands. Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2016 – Columbus, OH – Connections. Collaboration. Community
- WILLANDER, Linda (2016) Literacy and Reading - Best Practices in Malmö, Sweden. Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2016 – Columbus, OH – Connections. Collaboration. Community
- DOWNS, Ashley L. and KENNEDY, Sarah E. and PFANDER, Jeanne L. and DOYLE, Kelly and KELLY, Julie (2016) Planning a multi-institution Wikipedia Edit-a-thon for agriculture: Fulfilling the land grant mission while contributing to the world’s understanding of agriculture. Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2016 – Columbus, OH – Connections. Collaboration. Community
- BERNAOUI, Radia and ANSEUR, Ouardia (2016) Information Needs of Algerian Farmers Through an Animal Agricultural Information System. Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2016 – Columbus, OH – Connections. Collaboration. Community
- ZIMMERMAN, Margaret Sullivan (2016) Female Literacy and Access to Information in Asia - Assessing Maternal Health Impacts. Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2016 – Columbus, OH – Connections. Collaboration. Community
Photo by Sheila Webber: tomatoes, July 2016

Reports from #ckviii day 2: Implementing Team Based Learning in an information literacy course

More from Pamela McKinney at the Creating Knowledge conference in Reykjavik! Pam writes:
"Implementing Team Based Learning in an information literacy course: Dr. Marijn Post (Presenting author), Marja Duizendstraal, Marian Van Harmelen, and Renée De Waal, Wageningen UR, Wageningen, Netherlands
"Marijn identified the challenges in motivating students to improve their IL capabilities. She heard about the team-based learning at the Lilac conference in 2014 (I also went to this session!) TBL for Il teaching has a small research evidence base, however there have been publications looking at the practical application of TBL for IL. Marijn introduced the TBL model which is available at http://www.teambasedlearning.org and outlined how they implemented TBL with 1st year students in nutrition and health.
"Students did really like using the scratch card! I remember enjoying this part of the LILAC workshop session, showing that everyone likes a gimmick! The method features lots of peer discussion and also open discussion with the tutor."
"The implementation was evaluated through student feedback and a statistical analysis of students exam results to see if their grades were higher than in the previous year. The findings were that students did score higher in their exam, and that they reported spending more time than usual preparing for the class and found the individual elements of the TBL model useful for supporting their learning. Overall the librarians thought that students were more engaged and active in the IL classes."
Photo by Pam McKinney: mossy rocks at the Blue Lagoon, Iceland

#wlic2015 preview of papers on literacies

The World Library and Information (IFLA) Conference takes places 15-21 August in Cape Town, South Africa. I will be attending and aim to liveblog, but you can get a good taste of the conference in advance, since speakers are required to provide full text papers, preferably in advance. The papers are stored on the IFLA Library database: I regularly recommend the IFLA conference papers as an excellent international resource and the most recent years are on this database. I have picked out some of those being presented next month (focusing on literacies), and split them into two posts, one today and one tomorrow.

- MORTENSEN, Helle (2015) Literacy Matters! The Literacy and Reading Needs of People with Special Needs. Paper to be presented at: IFLA WLIC 2015 - Cape Town, South Africa in Session 99 - Literacy and Reading. http://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/1231
- VAN DER WALT, Flippie (2015) The reference librarian’s new approach to coach information literacy skills for children: a new approach in reference and information services in the City of Cape Town. Paper to be presented at: IFLA WLIC 2015 - Cape Town, South Africa in Session 190 - Reference and Information Services Section. http://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/1081
- KATZ, Ari (2015) Libraries, literacy and technology: A new training module for public librarians in developing countries targeted at integrating libraries into literacy programs. Paper to be presented at: IFLA WLIC 2015 - Cape Town, South Africa in Session 118 - Literacy and Reading. http://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/1205
- BON, Ingrid (2015) Literacy Matters! An integrated approach to literacy, reading and libraries in the Netherlands. Paper to be presented at: IFLA WLIC 2015 - Cape Town, South Africa in Session 99 - Literacy and Reading. http://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/1178
- STOICA, Marius (2015) The App Library project: technology and media education for teens. Paper to be presented at: IFLA WLIC 2015 - Cape Town, South Africa in Session 102 - Information Technology Library and Research Services for Parliaments Public Libraries and Asia and Oceania. http://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/1245
Photo by Sheila Webber: daisy, July 2015

Adult Students using a Scoring Rubric to develop Information Literacy Skills.

An "in press" article online at the Journal of Academic Librarianship (likely to be published in vol. 38 no. 3, 2012) is:
van Helvoort, A.A.J. How Adult Students in Information Studies Use a Scoring Rubric for the Development of Their Information Literacy Skills. "The purpose of this article is to expand on a previous study on the development of a scoring rubric for information literacy. The present paper examines how students at the Department of Information Services and Information Management, The Hague University, use the scoring rubric for their school work and/or in their regular jobs and social life."
JAL is also implementing Article Based Publishing so that "individual articles [are] to be published in their final form, including volume, issue and page number, before the volume itself [is] completed." Recent articles are at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/the-journal-of-academic-librarianship/recent-articles/
Photo by Sheila Webber: free art, seen on my way to work last week.

Extending media literacy

Thanks to Chris Armstrong for alerting me to this article (the journal is priced)
Nijboer, J. and Hammelburg, E. (2010) "Extending media literacy: a new direction for libraries." New library world, 111 (1/2), 36-45. The abstract is here.
Photo by Sheila Webber: 21st century Moscow: the Lubianka building next to a huge advert for Elle fashion magazine in knowing "revolutionary" style, December 2009 (click on photo to see larger version)

Instituut for Media and Informationliteracy (IVMI)

Apologies to Peter den Hollander for not blogging the information he sent me earlier. He told me about his institute in the Netherlands, Instituut for Media and Informationliteracy (IVMI). He wrote "My Instituut has developed online courses about information literacy for teachers. Teachers learn in my courses how they can make a 'information literacy task' for students. The theory is based on the Information Search Process developed by mrs Carol Kuhlthau. In 6 steps the teacher learn about how they can learn students to find there information on the internet efficiently and effectually. The Instituut gives online courses, but also workshops and training. Furthermore the Instituut has developed a online tool for (young) students with which they can find information on the internet following the 6 steps of information literacy." Not surprisingly, most of the information is in Dutch.
The Institute website is at http://www.ivmi.nl/
The online tool is at http://www.digin.nl/

Photo by Sheila Webber: Duck, boat, blossom, canal; Amsterdam April 2009

Dutch schools Information Literacy

This interesting (ENSIL: European Network for School Libraries and Information Literacy) blog entry is by Helen Boelens of Kalsbeek College, The Netherlands (a secondary school with about 2300 pupils). It has introduced an information literacy framework, and the information specialist (Boelens) has been using action research on this as the focus of her doctoral studies. "The model used for the information literacy instruction is known as the KILM (Kalsbeek Information Literacy Matrix). A detailed description of the KILM will be published on 31 January 2007, during a meeting of Dutch school librarians and other visitors." Her entry has links at the bottom to articles by Boelens on the situation of IL in schools in the Netherlands, and her work.
http://vvbad.typepad.com/ensil/2007/02/the_school_libr.html

[Apologies to those of you who saw a more enigmatic form of this entry that I meant to save as "draft" last night, but this morning I realised I'd saved it as "publish". At least it didn't have rude words in it or anything]

Photo by Sheila Webber: photo of snow falling on the front yard last week.