New articles: IL in Workplace; Schools; Curriculum mapping; Supporting communities; Teaching through popular culture

The latest issue of open access Journal of Information Literacy (Vol. 19 No. 2, 2025) is available. The articles are:
- Mapping the core dimensions of information literacy in the critical and workplace domain A thematic analysis by Dijana Šobota
- Integrating service-learning into information literacy education A case study from the Philippines by Ana Mae Cantel, Eun Youp Rha,
- Toward a coherent framework for school-based information literacy Delphi-based expert perspectives on competence and implementation by Ivana Martinović
- Reflection as a means to assess information literacy instruction by Natalia Kapacinskas, Veronica Arellano Douglas, Erica Lopez, Mea Warren
- Teaching critical information literacy through popular culture A media studies approach using the Oz texts by Daniel Williford
- Using Nuthall’s ideas to conceptualise and support children’s information needs by Andrew Shenton
- Information literacy without walls Comparative insights from India’s implementation and Greece’s emerging approaches by Nihar K Patra, Panorea Gaitanou
- Curriculum mapping for identifying and assessing information literacy teaching in humanities and social sciences libraries by Paul Cooke
Go to https://journals.cilip.org.uk/jil/issue/view/55
Photo by Sheila Webber: gingko leaves on a bench, November 2025

New articles: Banned books; Feedback literacy; Decision makers' IL; Teaching with AI

- Chakraborty, M., & Ford, S. (2025). Reading Between the Lines: Celebrating Banned Books Week Through the Lens of the Information Literacy Framework. College & Research Libraries News, 86(9), 376. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.86.9.%p  

- Hui, L., Ippolito, K., & Charalambous, M. (2025). Agency Development and Valuing Peer Perspectives: Lessons from an Intervention to Enhance STEM University Students’ Feedback Literacy. Teaching and Learning Inquiry, 13, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.13.45 

- Al-Azri, H. M., Al-Harrasi, N. H., & Al-Aufi, A. S. (2025). Exploring variations in the experience of information literacy among decision-makers of Omani government companies: A phenomenographic study. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000625135703 

- Seeley, S., & Cournoyea, M. (2025). “I’m Not Worried about Robots Taking Over the World. I Guess I’m Worried about People”: Emoting, Teaching, and Learning with Generative AI. Teaching and Learning Inquiry, 13, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.13.43
Photo by Sheila Webber: autumn rose, Sheffield, October 2025

New articles: Digital health literacy; CPD scale; Information needs of nurses

Latest issue of open-access IFLA Journal (Volume 51, No. 2, June 2025) includes the following:
- TikTok and digital health literacy: A systematic review by Margaret Kristin Merga
- Development and validation of the Continuing Professional Development Scale: A knowledge transfer perspective by Syed Fakhar Abbas, Syeda Hina Batool and Kanwal Ameen
- Information needs and information-seeking behavior of Egyptian nurses during a health crisis: A survey by Amany M. Elsayed, Safaa Salah Ismail, Manar Hamza and Zeinab S. Said
Go to https://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/4167
Photo by Sheila Webber: dandelions at different stages, June 2025

New article: Information literacy and the miltary

Hillhouse, J. (2025). From Data to Decisions: Building a Culture of Information Literacy. Proceedings, 151/6/1, 468. https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2025/june/data-decisions-building-culture-information-literacy.
A short article talking about the military's need for information literacy, authored by the research and instruction librarian with the Dudley Knox Library at the Naval Postgraduate School, USA.
Photo by Sheila Webber: band assembling at the bandstand, June 2025.

Generative AI and Labor

Published last week by Data & Society, a short book which addresses some interesting and disturbing issues about the kind of labour that use of genAI will create and replace:
Nguyen, A. & Mateescu, A. (2024). Generative AI and Labor: Power, Hype, and Value at Work. https://datasociety.net/library/generative-ai-and-labor/

New articles: Indigenous IL; Artists; Community representation; Clinical judgement in nursing; 1st gen students; Australian librarians; Toffler

The latest issue of open access journal Journal of Information Literacy contains the following articles and also some book reviews. Go to https://journals.cilip.org.uk/jil/issue/view/46
- Information as a relation: Defining Indigenous information literacy by Sandra Littletree, Nicola Andrews, Jessie Loyer
- Emerging artists in transition: What role does information play in negotiating success and failure? by Maud Cooper
- An information literacy lens on community representation for participatory budgeting in Brazil by Peter Cruickshank, Bruce Ryan
- Engaging with practice: Information literacy instruction as a part of developing reflective thinking and clinical judgement in nursing studies by Margrethe Bakstad Søvik, Kari Røykenes
- Insights on first-generation students’ development of social capital for the rigours of college-level research by Leslin H. Charles
- Artificial intelligence literacy in libraries: Experiences and critical impressions from a learning circle by Karolina Andersdotter
- Giving voice to regional Australian academic librarians: Perceptions of information literacy and information literacy instruction by Annette Goodwin, Waseem Afzal
- Information literacy: Did Alvin Toffler beat Paul Zurkowski to it? by Andrew Shenton
Image created by Sheila Webber with Midjourney AI - the prompt was the string of words in the subject line

Data and #AI #CILIPConf23

I'm attaneding the CILIP 2023 conference in Birmingham, UK, together with colleague Dr John Israilidis and five of our current Masters students. I'm spending a lot of tme on our Information School exhibition stand, but also taking in some sessions for some liveblogging. The first was the session on Data and AI. My colleague Dr Andrew Cox was the first speaker. His talk included looking at some of the ethical issues, and identifying the role of information professionals. He said there were some things we should worry about - such as the power of big tech companies, information overload, biased information. However there were also reasons to be optimistic - for example applying our exisiting professional skills in understanding of data and searching. Cox highlighted the Library strategy and AI post https://nationalcentreforai.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2023/06/05/library-strategy-and-artificial-intelligence/ which reports on an event organised by the University of Sheffield Information School, and links to a paper you can comment on: Draft for comment: Developing a library strategic response to Artificial Intelligence: Working paper

Then (via a video) Aaron Tay talked about AI and search. He thought that generative AI would improve relevancy, generation of direct answers, and extraction of information. He pointed that algorithms were already used extensively to drive search engine results (as this was increasingly the case, then search results would become less predictable). He said that "ChatGPT alone can't cut it" because it isn't possible to check the source information, and also the training data isn't fully up to date. A solution is "Retriever augemented generation" - retrieving good quality information and feeding the AI the sources, for it to generate an answer. Tay said that Elicit is an academic site that uses this technique. A 2nd combination is ChatGPT and the Scholar.io plugin. A disturbing result from one piece of research he mentioned was that people seemed to trust resultant pieces of work that were not really accurate (e.g. the references inserted dinto the text didn't always support the information they claimed to support). 

The last panellist was Sam Thomas talking on AI in a healthcare context. He pointed out that clinicians were already using AI extensively in clinical practice (e.g. diagnosis) and administration. He thought that it was important to engage the library team in discussing ideas, engaging positively in finding out about AI and how it could be used, identifying training and development opportunities, and considering the ethical implications of using AI.Thomas thought it was important to "focus on your context" - seek out information that can help you understand how AI could be used by stakeholders (what needs might it fulfill, how and why could they use it). He stressed that it should be embedded into what you were already doing (e.g.in teaching literature searching, evidence use). Thomas saw potential for time saving - literature searching (generating search terms; simple explanations etc), writing support, ideas generation, getting initial insights into data that you need to analyse. His final messages were: engage your team; focus on your users; use AI yourself.

Photo by Sheila Webber: fruit shots at the conference!

New articles: Critical Information Literacy

The open access Journal of Information Literacy has moved to https://journals.cilip.org.uk/jil/index. If you want to be alerted to new issues etc. then you need to register with this new site. There is also a new issue available (vol 17 no. 1):
- Taking stock of critical information literacy (Editorial) by Lauren Smith & Alison Hicks
- Transnational Chinese students’ online information literacies during the COVID-19 pandemic by Huan Gao, Angela Kohnen
- Sharing in the echo chamber: Examining Instagram users’ engagement with infographics through the frame of digital literacy by Ella Burrows
- Information literacy and its link to evidence-informed policymaking in Zimbabwe by Ronald Munatsi
- Information literacy curriculum mapping in the health sciences: A scoping review by Devon Olson, Sandi L. Bates, Shannon Yarborough, Sara Westall, Megan Keely Carroll Denis, Montanna Barnett
- Approaches to information literacy conceptualisation in primary, secondary, and higher education contexts: A review of current scholarly literature by Caitlin Taylor, Daniela DiGiacomo
- Personalised learning paths for information literacy using Canvas MasteryPaths by Neil Dixon, Andrea Packwood
- What role can affect and emotion play in academic and research information literacy practices? by Alex Hewitt
- Critical workplace information literacy: Laying the groundwork for a new construct by Dijana Šobota
- ‘They burn so bright whilst you can only wonder why’: Stories at the intersection of social class, capital and critical information literacy — a collaborative autoethnography by Darren Flynn, Teresa Crew, Rosie Hare, Krishna Maroo, Andrew Preater
- The critical information literacy of social workers: Information literacy as interpersonal practice by Sara Sharun
- Information literacy in the age of internet conspiracism by Matthew Hannah
- Dialectical roots and praxis routes: A contribution to critical information literacy from Hegel, Marx and Bloch by Marco Schneider, Arthur Coelho Bezerra

Photo by Sheila Webber: wild roses, May 2023

New book: Information Literacy and the Digitalisation of the Workplace

Widen, G. & Teixeira, J. (2023). Information Literacy and the Digitalisation of the Workplace. Facet Publishing. ISBN: 9781783305797. "The book includes lessons learned from investigating workplace information literacy across very different empirical domains (e.g. a nuclear power plant, an open-source software community, and a university among others). It outlines methodological and conceptual developments for anyone investigating information literacy across the modern workplace undergoing digitalisation, extending the debate on the impact of digitalisation on individuals and organisations. "
For table of contents and the introductory chapter go to: https://facetpublishing.co.uk/page/detail/information-literacy-and-the-digitalisation-of-the-workplace/?k=9781783305797

LIS Student Research Showcase: recording

On 27 Apr 2023 OneHEmindsets and the Scottish Academic Libraries Cooperative Training Group (SALCTG) hosted an online research showcase with current and recently graduated students of Library and Information Science (LIS), or related programmes. The recording is now at https://youtu.be/1eE39mX_z_Q It starts with introductions to CILIP Scotland, SALCTG and the Scottish new professionals group. Then there are 4 presentations
- Exploring scholarly mental models and information behaviour in disciplinary contexts: Hye Lim Nam, Glasgow University
- LoveLibraries-Hashtags and folksonomies in public library Instagram accounts: Chloe Hartley,  Robert Gordon University
- Facing the challenge of embedding digital ethics in organisational culture: Tricia White, Napier University).
- Creating Zinemaking resources for Scottish librarians working with young people: Fiona Johnston, Robert Gordon University (this was prerecorded)

Image created by Sheila Webber using Midjourney, with the prompt librarians disciplines hashtags in the format of a zine - since this doesn't look like a zine this was a failed prompt, but I did like this image

New articles: Information behaviour of farmers; Health Literacy; AI and information; Personal Information Management; Information & visual disability

The latest issue of IFLA Journal (Volume 48, No. 4, 2022) is published open access at https://repository.ifla.org/handle/123456789/2317 There are lots of interesting articles, covering library issues in many different countries, but picking out ones more relevant to this blog:
- An assessment of health information literacy among women in rural Lake Zone, Tanzania by Mohamed Kassim and Faraja Ndumbaro
- Knowledge mapping and visualization of personal information management literature, 1988–2020 by Williams Ezinwa Nwagwu and Chidiebube Blossom Williams
- A model of access to information among Nigerian rice farmers by Ugonna Benedette Fidelugwuowo
- Information needs and delivery channels: Experimental evidence from Cambodian smallholders by Selina Bruns, Oliver Mußhoff and Pascal Ströhlein
- Factors influencing the use of agricultural information by Vietnamese farmers by Hung Gia Hoang, Duc Van Nguyen and Douglas Drysdale
- Framework for the provision of information to the visually impaired in academic libraries in compliance with the Marrakesh Treaty by Samuel Macharia Were, Japhet N. Otike and Emily K. Bosire
Photo by Sheila Webber: lovely autumn beech tree, November 2022

Presentations from #LILAC22

Recordings and presentations from the LILAC 2022 conference (held in April) are available at https://www.lilacconference.com/lilac-archive/lilac-2022-1
There are the pre-recorded videos of keynotes:
- Susan Connor, Ray Smith (he/they), Imogen Webb (she/her), Rachel Wilding (she/her) (Manchester Metropolitan University’s iSchool) - Student Panel
- Marilyn Clarke (Director of Library Services at Goldsmiths, University of London) - Decolonisation as a means to creating an equitable future
- Emily Drabinski (Critical Pedagogy Librarian at the Graduate Center, City University of New York) - Structure and Power: Information Literacy for Liberation 

There are links to presentation slides, as follows:
- Augustine, K. & Hollcraft, J. Implementing the question formulation technique in a first-year composition course throughout the pandemic
- Bagger, A., Ramsgaard, L. & Tang, H. Educational design patterns: going beyond the classic information literacy concept
- Belantara, A. & Drabinski, E. Sharing information literacy concepts through sound: sounding the radical catalog
- Beveridge, L. Dyslexia creativity and information seeking: how can academic librarians acknowledge neurodiversity in their information literacy practice?
- Bickley, R. Information literacy as activism: standing up to the academic e-book industry
- Brittle, K. & Newbigging, C. Are you a teaching librarian? How two ‘imposters’ grew a library help centre
- Brookbank, E. Serving and supporting students as whole people
- Cannon, P. Exploring how university lecturers construct their knowledge of information and digital literacy and what that means for teaching in universities moving forward
- Connell, B. Designing information literacy materials using student voice - building self directed blended learning programme for lifelong learning students Institute of Technology Carlow
- Dawes, L. & Anaya, T. Is hybrid here to stay? Developing flexible instruction that support community inquiry and active learning
- Dunlop, S. The future of feedback: evaluation of information and digital literacy teaching in higher education
- Flood, J. & Coxhead, B. Critical sustainability research workshop: an example from UAL Libraries' Sustainability Toolkit
- Goldstein, S., Secker, J. & Harding, A-L. MILA Framework workshop
- Hamlett, A. Laying the foundation how faculty led IL instruction improves students success
- Harding, A-L. Introducing information literacy at the House of Commons
- Haworth, A., Grant, V., McIndoe, S., Sadler, R. & Taylor, D. Moving forward as one University: the impact of reshaping information and digital literacy to integrate with refreshed graduate attributes
- Howard, H. & Phillips, M. Transitioning from academia to the workplace: information literacy experiences of business students
- Inskip, C., Hicks, A., Lloyd, A., Mckinney, P. & Walton, G. Leveraging information literacy: mapping the conceptual influence and appropriation of information literacy in other disciplinary landscapes
- Jenkins, R., Love-Rodgers, C. & Dozier, M. Librarian consultations - supporting student researchers in the hybrid world
- Kaufmann, K. Factors that impact the relevance of information literacy to college students: the kaleidoscope effect
- King, M. Inclusive teaching practices to improve the learning experience for neurodivergent learners: practical strategies from the perspective of a neurodivergent librarian
- Lapham, J. The value of librarian -led information literacy lessons for higher education students in the further education college environment
- Lincoln, H. & Chiu, T. Perceptions of the ‘find it out yourself method’: developing self efficacy and students as tourists in academic communities of practice
- Long, J. & Hicks, J. Maker literacy: connecting IL within the maker movement
- Love-Rodgers, C. & McDonald, S. L. Catapulted by COVID: hitting new information literacy targets at the University of Edinburgh
- Maniates, R. Revisiting the one-minute paper: personal reflections student engagement and assessing the assessment
- Maybee, C. & Kaufmann, K. Information literacy: elements of a maturing discipline - McAndrew, E. Wikipedia student activism and the Ivory Tower
- Mckinney, P. & Webber, S. Using theories of change to evaluate information literacy initiatives - this presentation isn't linked on this site, but you can find it here ;-) https://www.slideshare.net/sheilawebber/using-theory-of-change-to-evaluate-information-literacy-initiatives
- Minta, L., Gregory, N. & Thompson, E. Breaking out of the library bubble: information literacy and curriculum alignment
- Morrison, C., Secker, J., Wakaruk, A. & Gareau-Brennan, C. COVID and the copyright literacy community of practice
- Naughton, J. & Robertson, S. Turning a challenge into an opportunity: health literacy training for NHS knowledge and library staff
- Newnham, P. Information literacy and the transition to university education. Reflections and initial findings from Lancaster University Institute of Curriculum Enhancement (ICE) fellowship research project
- Nierenberg, E. & Dahl, T. I. The development of students as information literate individuals: results from an 86% complete PhD in information literacy
- Panes, M. & Mellifluo, L. Community building in complex settings: exploration based on Swiss multi-library initiatives for gamifiers
- Pavey, S. Looking for information literacy in the English National Curriculum and exam syllabi
- Pavey, S. What if no-one had information literacy skills?
- Penton, S. Using educational technology to convey complex Information Literacy topics: animating OSCOLA referencing and copyright
- Peppard, C., Parkhill, S. & Chalkley, A. Self service or checkout confusion?
- Phillps, K. & Joel Burkholder, J. A wolf in sheep’s clothing: genre confusion and Fake News
- Preest, K. & Sewell, C. Increasing inclusivity: developing a HEA accredited teaching course for librarians
- Randall, S., Naylor, N. & Wills, D. Trusted information in unprecedented times: reflecting on two years of learning from the PIF TICK trust mark for health information
- Secker, J., Tilley, E., Mizrachi, D. & Grim, G. Students academic reading and information literacy in a time of COVID
- Soderman, J. The power of collaging in unlocking research topics
- Thomson, K. Teaching how to structure literature reviews via 1990s movies
- Thorpe, C. & Paterson, F. Supersize my session. Reflections on redesigning a small scale workshop for a large scale setting in-person and online
- Trowell, C. & Meehan, L. Reuse recycle repurpose - moving from a plagiarism guide to a sustainable good academic practice toolkit
- Usova, T. Teaching data visualization as a one-credit course - Walsh, A. Changing signature pedagogies for information literacy
- Walton, G. Tailoring information literacy instruction using the information discernment diagnostic questionnaire
- Walton, G. Mainstreaming information literacy: analysing Educational Preventing Violent Extremism programmes (EPVEs)
- Wegener, D. Information literacy in Asia: the case at the Singapore Institute of Technology
- Westbury, M. & Hicks, A. JIL: Getting your writing groove back
- Whitworth, A. Information in isolation: the arrival of high speed internet in a very remote country
- Williams, J., Hicks, A., Baer, A., Hollister, C. & Westbury, M. Prioritising Inclusion and Equity in Information Literacy Scholarship: A Panel Conversation with the Editors of CIL and JIL
- Woodcock, J., O'Hara Mia & Pothecary, J. Developing a systematic review search strategy through online and peer active review

Photo by Sheila Webber:lilac, 2022.

New articles: Health information; Information literacy self-efficacy; Agricultural information; Managing personal records

There is a new issue of the open access journal Information Research (volume 27 issue 2). It includes
- Muhammad Asif Naveed. Information literacy self-efficacy of scientists working at the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
- Reijo Savolainen. What drives people to prefer health-related misinformation? The viewpoint of motivated reasoning
- Matt Balogh, William Billingsley, David Paul, and Mary Anne Kennan. Understanding the management of personal records at home: a virtual guided tour 
- Marco Capocasa, Paolo Anagnostou, and Giovanni Destro Bisol. A light in the dark: open access to medical literature and the COVID-19 pandemic
- Murat Konca, Şenol Demirci, Cuma Çakmak, and Özgür Uğurluoğlu. Exploring the socio-economic determinants of health information-seeking behaviour on the Internet in Turkey
- Tami Oliphant, Tanya Berry, and Colleen M. Norris. ‘In a perfect world doctors and the medical profession would accept people for who they are’: women’s heart health information practices
- Tumpe Ndimbwa, Kelefa Mwantimwa, and Faraja Ndumbaro. Smallholder farmers’ satisfaction with agricultural information accessed in rural Tanzania
Go to http://informationr.net/ir/27-2/infres272.html
Photo by Sheila Webber: Ritz, 2022

Recent articles: Information behaviour of - lawyers, young children, immigrants; students' personal information management; business students' information literacy

Selected articles from the last 2 issues of the priced publication Journal of Librarianship and Information Science:
- Ali, I., & Warraich, N. F. (2022). Personal information management through ubiquitous devices: Students’ mobile self-efficacy and PIM practices. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 54(2), 174–187. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000621992821 "The findings revealed that undergraduate students search, browse, and scan information through mobile phones. They used keywords, searched from recently opened file, and from send item to find/re-find information. They save their personal information in folders, use mobile applications, and take screen shot of information to keep it for future use. Current study reported “Sharing as keeping ‘as a new phenomenon in mobile based personal information keeping (ubiquitous environment)."
- Naveed, M. A., & Mahmood, M. (2022). Correlatives of business students’ perceived information literacy self-efficacy in the digital information environment. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 54(2), 294–305. https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006211014277 (a study of business students in Lahore, Pakistan) "The results revealed that the business students had high self-efficacy for basic information literacy skills and low self-efficacy for advanced-level information literacy skills. Age, study program, study stage, proficiency for computer, and English language appeared to be the correlatives of students’ information literacy self-efficacy. "
- Solomon, Y., & Bronstein, J. (2022). The information-gathering practice of liberal professionals in a workplace setting: More than just seeking information. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 54(1), 54–68. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000621992810 "The content analysis revealed four distinctive forms in which lawyers in Israel gather information within the contemporary legal practice: (a) self-executed information-seeking, (b) mediated acquisition of information, (c) information discovery and (d) combined information-gathering – which in all compile 10 different habitual strategies of gathering information in their professional work."
- Shuva, N. Z. (2022). “I actually got my first job through my ex-colleague”: Employment-related information seeking behavior of Bangladeshi immigrants in Canada. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 54(1), 34–53. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000621992806
- Barriage, S. (2022). Young children’s information-seeking practices in center-based childcare. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 54(1), 144–158. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000620962164 (a study in the USA) "The findings indicate that the children did not perceive the concept of information in a manner consistent with adult understandings of the term, and that they engaged in information-seeking related to finding out new things on their own, through interactions with others, and through classroom resources, activities, and routines."

Photo by Sheila Webber: white climbing rose, May 2022

Turning a challenge into an opportunity: health literacy training for NHS knowledge and library staff #LILAC22

This is another liveblog post from Sheila, from the LILAC conference - Turning a challenge into an opportunity: health literacy training for NHS knowledge and library staff presented by Joanne Naughton and Sue Robertson (Health Education England). To make change you need to be embedded in strategy, and for HEE this is identifiied in the strategic report Knowledge for Healthcare - about "using the right knowledge and evidence, at the right time, in the right place" with the ultimate outcomes of excellent healthcare and health improvement. A key part of this is addressing inequality - including helping everyone to get access to high quality health information. This was always a goal, but the pandemic brings it into particular focus. 

The speakers outlined the strategy for developing knowledge and library specialists - skills development and access to resources, resulting in the impacts of shared decision making, skills for engagement with the public and tools for tackling inequalities. This is carried out in partnership with other professional colleagues in the health service. They talked about some of the approaches and tools they used: and delivery ranging from the starter 15 minute Health Literacy Awareness session through to a 3 hour Train the trainer session. In the "train the trainer" session there is a big emphasis on ideas for delivery and giving the trainers practice. 

Before the pandemic, these sessions had a strong face to face element, but obviously they had to switch for the pandemic. They were in any case launching a new set of training sessions, which included virtual options, and the pandemic meant they had to go over to online entirely. They played to their own particular strengths (e.g. to start with the librarian with most technical experience led on that side, whilst others developed their technical expertise). They had to be adaptable, as the learners had different circumstances and equipment: they discovered that there wasn't a one-size-fits all solution, you have to adapt to the specific learners. 

Issues included: technology barriers (e.g. people who could only join by phone, which limited participation); Human issues (e.g. coping with people arriving at breakout sessions late; building trust); How (whether) people value virtual training (e.g. people who cancel more easily); Maintaining (and improving) the quality of training. As regards trust issues, they have ground rules (e.g. about confidentiality); they encourage camera-on; they role play/give examples for more complex activities to give learners confidence. They have had strong demand for the online training. They also mentioned their community of practice and that they have joined a National Health and Digital Literacy partnership, this includes a partnership to upskill the public in different parts of the country. 

At the end they identified a tool http://healthliteracy.geodata.uk/ Health literacy in England - where you can focus in on results for a particular part of England (the screenshot is from that resource).

Introducing Information Literacy in the House of Commons #LILAC22

Sheila here, liveblogging from the LILAC conference. Anne-Lise Harding talked about Introducing Information Literacy in the House of Commons. She started by explaining what Select Committees were: groups of Members of Parliament from different parties who investigate key issues e.g. connected with Bills being put before parliament. A variety of people - mostly experts in the topic and stakeholder groups - provide testimony and evidence to teh committee so that the Select Committee can provide informed conclusions. Harding is Senior Liaison Librarian, so based with the select committees and working with senior researchers. Her background in Information Literacy was one of the reasons why she was selected for the role. The researchers she works with tend not to use formally published reports, but more with news reports, grey literature and also direct consultation with experts to collect original evidence. The researchers only work for a limited time in one area, as they get shuffled round periodically. The focus is on enrichment rather than (as with students, say) developing skills, so the support needs to be refined. 

Harding conducted (online) some information needs and information behaviour research: including the research process within different types of committee. She shadowed inquiries, she looked at scoping documents and carried out interviews. She found that early career generalists spend more time researching and analysing. Early-career Specialists spend more time managing the knowledge. For mid career specialists they have developed their specialist skills, but have not developed their general IL skils so much. The generalist, by contrats have had to develop IL skills to deal with the range of topics they investigate, but lack the more specialist subject skills. Harding identified two Liaison Committee reports which focused the initiative on a goal about inclusion and social justice: the reports were The effectiveness and influence of the Select Committee system and Witness gender diversity. 

Harding contrasted the way in which her role in education was teaching students to be performative (so students could do well in their studies) whereas in her current role she sees a broader goal to do with democracy and giving people a voice. 

Following on from Harding's research they created some development modules which could be delivered by MS teams (delivered live and recorded, so accessible afterwards). The modules were: Introduction to library services;  research biases; searching diverse sources; evaluating diverse sources; diverse current awareness; communicating in a diverse manner. The material was peer reviewed by several people (including diversity champions). They have solicited feedback, but it is on-the-spot, and they want some evidence about longer-term impact

New articles: Workplace IL; Information behaviour of people with aphasia; News literacy; Virtual communities; Model of information seeking

There is a new issue of the open access journal Information Research (volume 27 issue 1). It includes
 - Muhammad Asif Naveed, and Muhammad Kamran. Workplace information literacy: the case of investigation officers from Punjab Police, Pakistan.
- Kanwal Ameen and Salman Bin Naeem. Post-truth era: news behaviour and news literacy skills of university librarians
- Naresh Kumar Agarwal. Integrating models and integrated models: towards a unified model of information seeking behaviour
- Birgit Kvikne, and Gerd Berget. "My words were completely gone." A qualitative study of the information seeking behaviour of people with aphasia
- Hsiu-Hua Cheng, and Chi-Wei Chen. Why people lurk in theme-oriented virtual communities: integrating achievement goal theory and cognitive dissonance theory.
Go to https://doi.org/10.47989/irinfres271

Photo by Sheila Webber: Daffodils, March 2022

Recent articles: Workplace information literacy; Information Behaviour in the pandemic

Middleton, L. & Hall, H. (2021). Workplace information literacy: a bridge to the development of innovative work behaviour [IWB]. Journal of Documentation, 77(6), 1343-1363. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-03-2021-0065 "The purpose of the work reported in this paper was to investigate a further set of possible determinants of the development of IWB: those that are information-related." using mixed methods "A set of information-related determinants of the development of IWB is evidenced, adding to the list of determinants that are already well documented. Notably workplace information literacy (IL) appears to furnish a bridge between determinants of the development of IWB and workplace learning."

Zimmerman, M.S. (2021). Health information-seeking behavior in the time of COVID-19: information horizons methodology to decipher source path during a global pandemic. Journal of Documentation, 77(6), 1248-1264. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-01-2021-0022. The aim was "To determine the differences, as represented by information horizons mapping, in the health information-seeking behavior from a group of participants between March 2019 and April 2020 of the novel coronavirus pandemic." 149 participants drew information horizons maps & did a health literacy test, this was repeated before and after the start of the pandemic "There is a statistically significant difference in the increased number of sources and the ranked quality of the sources that people used during the pandemic. Participants were much more likely to use credible sources and news sources, especially if they were older, more educated and had higher literacy levels – both health and information. They also relied heavily on social media. The participant group in the pandemic had a much heavier reliance on sources that are often used in a passive encountering way but engaging with them in an active information-seeking manner. The health information-seeking behavior in this study did not adhere to other research that found issue with information overload, avoidance and cyberchondria in response to crisis situations." 

Ke, Q., Du, J.T. and Ji, L. (2021). Toward a conceptual framework of health crisis information needs: an analysis of COVID-19 questions in a Chinese social Q&A website. Journal of Documentation, 77(4), 851-870. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-10-2020-0173 "This study collected the COVID-19-related questions posted on a Chinese social Q&A website for a period of 90 days since the pandemic outbreak in China. A qualitative thematic approach was applied to analyze the 1,681 valid questions using an open coding process. ... A taxonomy of information need topics for a health crisis context that identifies 8 main categories and 33 subcategories was developed, from which four overarching themes were extracted. These include understanding, clarification and preparation; affection expression of worries and confidence; coping with a challenging situation and resuming normal life; and social roles in the pandemic."
Photo by Sheila Webber: branchlet of autumn leaves, November 2021

Recent articles: IL support of nurses; Health crisis information needs; Intergenerational sharing; Information practices of immigrants, of lawyers, in leisure, of LGBTQIA+ leaders; IL in MOOC learning

Articles from the latest 2 issues of Journal of Documentation (priced journal) include:
In Volume 77 issue 3 https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/0022-0418/vol/77/iss/3
- Validation of information-seeking behaviour of nursing students confirms most profiles but also indicates desirable changes for information literacy support by Peter Stokes, Robert Priharjo, Christine Urquhart
- Facilitation of information literacy through a multilingual MOOC considering cultural aspects by Stefan Dreisiebner et al. (Open access)
- Cultural information needs of long-settled immigrants, their descendants and family members: use of collective and personal information sources about the home country by Maja Krtalic
- A systematic integrative review of cognitive biases in consumer health information seeking: emerging perspective of behavioral information research by Tsangyao Chen
- Intergenerational workplace knowledge sharing: challenges and new directions by Jiayang Tang, Jorge Tiago Martins
- Discursive power and resistance in the information world maps of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual community leaders by Vanessa Kitzie, Travis Wagner, A. Nick Vera
- Documenting social justice in library and information science research: a literature review by Joseph Winberry, Bradley Wade Bishop 

In Volume 77 issue 4 https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/0022-0418/vol/77/iss/4
- Toward a conceptual framework of health crisis information needs: an analysis of COVID-19 questions in a Chinese social Q&A website by Qing Ke, Jia Tina Du, Lu Ji
- Information activities in serious leisure as a catalyst for self-actualisation and social engagement by Yazdan Mansourian
- A dual lens approach to exploring informal communication's influence on learning in a political party by Susannah Micaela Hanlon
- Exploring the information practices of lawyers by Jenny Bronstein, Yosef Solomon

Photo by Sheila Webber: hydrangea, July 2021

New articles: Workplace information literacy; Using wikipedia; IL teaching & Web 2.0

The new issue of open access journal Journal of Information Literacy (vol. 15 No. 2, 2021) contains the following (plus book reviews) at https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/JIL/issue/view/225

- Information literacy of Polish state administration officials in the context of the concept of "good governance" by Zbigniew Osiński.
- Workplace information literacy by Gunilla Widén, Farhan Ahmad, Shahrokh Nikou, Bruce Ryan, Peter Cruickshank. ("This paper brings forward three separate studies, conducted by the authors, highlighting different workplace contexts: small and medium enterprises; universities; and community councils.")
- Exploring effective information use in an insurance workplace by Charles Inskip, Sophia Donaldson.
- Knowing and doing by Ellen Nierenberg, Torstein Låg, Tove Irene Dahl ("3 quantitative measures were developed and tested with several samples of university students to assess knowledge and skills for core facets of IL. ... the tools indicated low to moderate correlations between what students know about IL, and what they actually do when evaluating and using sources in authentic, graded assignments.")
- Web 2.0 tools and information literacy instruction in UK university libraries by William Shire, Pam McKinney.
- Enhancing students’ professional information literacy by Angela Joy Feekery, Katherine Chisholm, Carla Jeffrey, Fiona Diesch (reports on development of an online module).
- Getting to work by Alexandra Hamlett ("The article highlights how collaboration between a librarian and an instructor of a career centered course influenced instructional design for IL instruction in their courses.")
- Using Wikipedia to teach scholarly peer review by Paul Anthony Thomas, Matthew F Jones, Spencer G Mattingly.
Photo by Sheila Webber: wild June rose.