Report from the LILAC conference: in Second Life: May 1st

Hear first hand accounts of the UK's information literacy conference: for the 5th year running we will have an hour of reports and discussion in Second Life! All welcome!
When: 12 noon SL time (8pm UK time, 5pm US Eastern, see http://tinyurl.com/d9a7jrh for times elsewhere), Tuesday 1st May 2012.
Where: Infolit iSchool, in the virtual world Second Life, you need a SL avatar and the SL browser installed on your computer to participate. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/129/242/22/
What: Report from the LILAC (UK Information Literacy) Conference
Eleni Zazani, Birkbeck College (Loreena Sandalwood in SL) and Vickie Cormie, St Andrews University (Ishbel Hartmann in SL) will report back on highlights from the LILAC 2012 conference, that took place in Glasgow in April. This is the major British conference on Information Literacy: the website with powerpoint presentations is at http://lilacconference.com/WP/
A Sheffield iSchool Centre for Information Literacy Research event.

Presentations from LILAC #lilac12

The powerpoints from the 2012 LILAC (information literacy) conference are online at http://lilacconference.com/WP/past-conferences/lilac-2012/ - too many to take in easily, lots of good stuff!
Just to add to the links to reports about LILAC, there is this prezi from Ida Kwan http://prezi.com/t9nv204ixmpg/idalilac2012/, a report by Sam Aston at http://www.infotoday.eu/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/Digital-detoxing---librarians-and-information-literacy-81988.aspx and some posts from Fiona McLellan http://fionamaclellan.wordpress.com/tag/lilac12/
Photo by Sheila Webber: yet more cherry blossom (currently, in fact, being destroyed by the rain)

Some more LILAC links #lilac12

Here are some more links to reports and content from the LILAC information literacy conference last week. Blog posts include:
- Melissa Highton: http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/melissa
- Reluctant librarian: http://reluctantlibrarian.tumblr.com/
- Peter Reid (CILIP Scotland President): http://www.cilips.org.uk/presidentshttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif-blog-2012/2012/4/13/the-colour-lilac.html
- Sarah Faye Cohen: http://thesheckspot.blogspot.co.uk/
And a couple of ppts
- Angela Newton and Dan Pullinger: powerpoint from the workshop Acting on PhD student feedback to create new learning resources http://www.slideshare.net/LULSci-EngTeam/acting-on-phd-student-feedback-to-create-new-learning-resources
- Alan Carbery: powerpoint presentation, Information literacy through inquiry: using problem-based learning in information literacy instruction: http://www.slideshare.net/acarbery/information-literacy-through-inquiry-using-problembased-learning-in-information-literacy-instruction
Top photo (parrot tulips) by Sheila Webber, April 2012.
2nd photo by Ruth Stubbings (on Flickr) showing the LILAC team with speaker Tara Brabazon. target="_blank"

Walsh and Leeds team award winners

Announced at the LILAC conference last week, the winner of the Information Literacy Practitioner of the Year award was Andrew Walsh, Academic Librarian, University of Huddersfield. The winners of the Credo Reference Digital Award for Information Literacy award were Carol Elston, Jade Kelsall, Michelle Schneider and Lizzie Caperon (University of Leeds), for their Library Guide – an online introduction to the library.

Some links from the LILAC conference #lilac12

Here are some links that I picked up from the LILAC Twitterfeed:
- Dave Pattern's graphics of library impact data: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davepattern/sets/72157629087302688 (an example is on the right)
- A video introducing "ANCIL - A New Curriculum for Information Literacy", aimed at university administration/faculty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY-V2givIiE
- A LibGuide from Newcastle University Library: A guide to mobile apps and resources for study and research http://libguides.ncl.ac.uk/mobile
- A LibGuide from Loyola Marymount University, William H. Hannon Library, An Introduction to the Research Process, and this page is about forming the question: http://libguides.lmu.edu/content.php?pid=10084&sid=1965230
- Free version of the article by keynote-r Megan Oakleaf: "Are They Learning? Are We? Learning Outcomes and the Academic Library." The Library Quarterly, 81 (1), 61-82. http://www.meganoakleaf.info/aretheylearningoakleaf.pdf
- ACRL Value of Academic Libraries report: http://www.acrl.ala.org/value/?page_id=21
- A couple of powerpoints are already there including:

Libguides - LILAC 2012

Following the LILAC conference #lilac12

The UK's major information literacy conference, LILAC, is on for the next 3 days. The hashtag is #lilac12 https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23lilac12 and I have put up a widget on this blog for the Twitter feed for the duration of the conference (I am not attending it this year). LILAC also has its own Twitter account at https://twitter.com/#!/LILAC_2012. The conference website is http://lilacconference.com/WP/ and there is a facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/lilacconference (there is currently a picture of last year's conference - I'm crouching in the front, 5th right)