Information Literacy Weblog

On December 2-4 in Bangkok, Thailand, there was a UNESCO Global Forum on Media and Gender . One of the strands was titled Media and Inform...

I have included information encountering in my infrmation literacy classes for many years, as it is an information behaviour that I think...

Since I am still feeling poorly, I picked up on a health-related report from Pew Internet Research , published a month ago. The study surv...

Sorry for the lack of posts over the last few days. I am finishing the year with a nasty cold/flu - feeling dreadful for nearly a week now...

The latest issue of the open access journal Information Research (18 (4), 2013) includes the following articles: - Miamaria Saastamoinen...

Volume 7 no 2 (2013) of the open access journal Communications in Information Literacy focuses on discussion around the revision of the (U...

A new open access article dealing with nursing is: Carter-Templeton, H., Patterson, R. and MacKey, S. (2014) Nursing faculty and student e...

There is a first Call for Papers for the 2nd European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL), to be held 20-23 October 2014 in the Hot...

A useful post from Brian Kelly on using social media for your academic research http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2013/12/18/using-social-med...

There is a call for papers for session Google is not enough: Reference and Information Services for the transfer of knowledge - reframin...

There is a free teachmeet meeting in Manchester, UK, at Manchester Metropolitan University Library on 22nd January 2014. Only a few presente...

The report I mentioned yesterday on student expectations reminded me that research was carried out in: Johnston, B. and Kochanowska, R. ...

An interesting study has just been published, commissioned by the Quality Assurance Agency, which the body which has responsibility for (a...

A couple of interesting articles in a recent issue of open-access title College and Research Libraries . - Latham, D. and Gross, M. (201...

Recordings of presentations from the online Library 2.013 conference (held this October) are available. There are loads of presentations...

The latest meeting of the UNESCO General Conference voted in favour of the draft resolution on Media and Information Literacy that my co...

Join us in the virtual world Second Life for a one-hour discussion of an open-access article. Led by Ewa Rozkosz (Documentation and Inform...

Volume 7 issue 2 has been published. It has the following articles, plus conference reports and reviews. - Being an embedded research li...

This is a report from the UK's Higher Education Academy, as part of a project  Flexible Pedagogies: preparing for the future . "T...

There is a Call for Papers for the IFLA Information Literacy Section Satellite Meeting taking place in Limerick, Ireland, August 14-15 201...