Reference Services Review: format; badging; learning theory; evaluation; disciplines; collaboration

The latest 2 issues of Reference Services Review (a priced publication) include the following:
Volume 43 issue 1
- Teaching “format as a process” in an era of Web-scale discovery by Kevin Patrick Seeber (pp. 19 - 30)
- Badge it!: A collaborative learning outcomes based approach to integrating information literacy badges within disciplinary curriculum by Emily Ford , Betty Izumi , Jost Lottes , Dawn Richardson (pp. 31 - 44)
- Learning information literacy through drawing by David James Brier , Vickery Kaye Lebbin (pp. 45 - 67)
- One-shot Wikipedia: an edit-sprint toward information literacy by John Thomas Oliver (pp. 81 - 97)
- Flashlight: using Bizup’s BEAM to illuminate the rhetoric of research by Kate Rubick (pp. 98 - 111)
- Leveraging adult learning theory with online tutorials by Rebecca Halpern , Chimene Tucker (pp. 112 - 124)
- Integrating the thematic approach into information literacy courses by Elizabeth Price , Rebecca Richardson (pp. 125 - 136)
- Piloting a blended model for sustainable IL programming by Jody Nelson , Joan Morrison , Lindsey Whitson (pp. 137 - 151)
Volume 44 issue 2 (at time of writing this was early publication, so no page numbers)
- Learning from Degree-Seeking Older Adult Students in a University Library by Mary C. Aagard , Marilia Y. Antunez , Jaime N. Sand
- Evaluation of Sources: A New Sustainable Approach by Sharon Radcliff , Elise Y. Wong
- Using Interviews to Improve Relationships with Library Partners: A Case Study by Bridget Farrell
- Situated Information Literacy: History Instruction at a High School Early College by Meghann Walk
- Situating Information Literacy in the Disciplines: A Practical and Systematic Approach for Academic Librarians by Robert Farrell , William Badke
Go to http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/rsr
Photo by Sheila Webber: St Georges Church, Sheffield University: there are 3 peregrine falcons in this picture and since the photo isn't very sharp I have put red "x"s above them (a chick in the nest platform and one just-fledged chick on the ledge above the clock, and a parent bird sitting at the side). Click photo for full size. 2 June 2015

ALAO spring workshop

The Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) Instruction Interest Group has its spring workshop on 12 June 2015. Joe Salem (Penn State) will present Lifelong Partnerships for Lifelong Learning and Ann Marie Smeraldi (Cleveland State University) will present Get the Party Started: Campus Collaborations that Support Information Literacy Initiatives. More information at http://www.alaoweb.org/event-1929612

iConference proceedings

The proceedings of the 2015 iConference (conference for those in the iSchools network) are online. Information Literacy was not a focus, but there are, for example, some papers on information behaviour e.g.
- Seeking Information in Online Environments – Where, Who, and Why? by Shah, Chirag; Sonne, Jennifer
- "Gangnam Mom": A Qualitative Study on the Information Behaviors of Korean Helicopter Mothers by Park, SoHyun; Lim, Hyunchul; Choi, Heekyung
Go to https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/73276
Photo by Sheila Webber: icelandic poppy, June 2015

Big Picture Information Literacy Tutorials

The Primo Site of the Month for May is: Big Picture Information Literacy Tutorials. There is an interview with the producers (Anne Burke, Kim Duckett, & Andreas Orphanides, North Carolina State University, USA) at http://www.ala.org/acrl/aboutacrl/directoryofleadership/sections/is/iswebsite/projpubs/primo/site/2015may
The tutorials themselves ("videos and interactive guides") are at http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/#bigpicture
Photo by Sheila Webber: Gilbert's pit, South London, May 2015

Registration open for 2nd annual LILi (Lifelong Information Literacy) Conference

The free LILI conference taking place 3 August 2015 in Los Angeles, USA, has the theme Collaboration for Lifelong Learning: Innovative and Effective Approaches to Information Literacy. Registration is open (deadline July 10), and there are further details about the conference at https://goo.gl/rBO8NK

cfp Virtual poster session

The ACRL Instruction Section Conference Planning Committee is calling for information on projects that have "redesigned a library classroom to better align changing pedagogy and student learning". They are having "a Virtual Poster Session that will accompany the panel taking place this summer at ALA Annual [on 27 June] entitled, Aligning Learning Spaces with Pedagogy: The Instruction Librarian’s Role in Classroom Re/Design." "In lieu of designing a formal poster, we ask that you respond to the following questions in your submission, in addition to providing photographs: Describe the finished teaching or classroom space, including any specifics about furniture or technology that was included in the design. What were the goals of the re-design or creation of the space? What strategies did you use to advocate for student learning and active learning pedagogy in the space? What lessons did you learn from this experience that you'd most like to share with someone undertaking a similar project? How have changes you made to the classroom changed your teaching? How have changes you made to the classroom changed your instruction programs?"
Photographs and responses should be emailed to Cindy Fisher at cindyf@austin.utexas.edu
The deadline for submission is 6 June 6.

Photo by Sheila Webber: wild flowers, Gilbert's pit, May 2015

College and Research Libraries: classic commentaries; learning design

The 75th Anniversary Issue of College and Research Libraries (volume 76 no. 3) has an interesting format: reprinting some classic articles and providing a contemporary commentary on each. For example Megan Oakleaf responds to the article (first published in 2003) by George Kuh and Robert Gonyea The Role of the Academic Library in Promoting Student Engagement in Learning. http://crl.acrl.org/content/76/3.toc
The latest C and RL (volume 76 no. 4 http://crl.acrl.org/content/76/4.toc) includes
- Katy Kavanagh Webb and Jeanne Hoover Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in the Academic Library: A Methodology for Mapping Multiple Means of Representation in Library Tutorials
- Amanda Rinehart, Jennifer Sharkey, and Chad Kahl Learning Style Dimensions and Professional Characteristics of Academic Librarians
Photo by Sheila Webber: Cow parsley, Gilbert's Pit, South London, May 2015

Esther Grassian honoured

The UCLA Library & Information Studies Alumni Association's (LISAA) Distinguished Alumni Award winner this year is Esther Grassian, who has (and continues to) make a great contribution to information literacy (see e.g. here and here). More details (and a nice photo) at http://ampersand.gseis.ucla.edu/lisaa-spring-dinner-honors-distinguished-is-alumnae/

Blog post journal club: next discussion 3rd June: Information literacy learning design #ilread

The next discussion for the blog post journal club is 3rd June 2015 at 8pm UK time (which is 3pm US Eastern time, 12 noon US Pacific time). We will be discussing:
McNicol, S., and Shields, E. (2014). Developing a new approach to information literacy learning design. Journal of Information Literacy, 8(2), 23–35. http://doi.org/10.11645/8.2.1911
Anyone can join this discussion! Participants aim to read at least some of the article in advance, then come along at 8pm GMT and join in the discussion by adding comments to the blog post which introduces the article http://infolitjournalclub.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/next-discussion-3-june-on-information.html

You can see how this works by looking at previous discussions on the blog http://infolitjournalclub.blogspot.co.uk/
Photo by Sheila Webber: dandelion clock, photoshopped, May 2015

cfp for #iFutures 2015

The call for poster and paper proposalss for the 2015 iFutures conference (to be held at Sheffield University, UK, on 7 July 2015) closes on June 5 2015. The conference is run by, and for, PhD researchers in the information science field (so it is run by PhD students in my department ;-) The theme of the 2015 conference is Open Information Science: exploring new landscapes. "Openness is a key part of Information Science research, from using open source tools and big open data sets to open standards advocacy, creating open accessible environments in institutions, and opening information science to radical perspectives and exploring diverse communities. The conference will give delegates the chance to talk about how open information influences and relates to their research." Submissions can be for posters, papers, or pecha kucha presentations, and are welcomes from PhD students at any stage of their research. There are two keynote speakers: Fabio Ciravenga (Professor of Computer Science, University of Sheffield) and Helen Kennedy (Professor of Sociology, University of Sheffield). More details at http://ifutures.group.shef.ac.uk/
There is also a twitter chat today at 5pm UK time (which is e.g. 12 noon US Eastern time) using the hashtag #iFutures

cfp: Designing information literacy programming for an academic library

Cinthya Ippoliti and Rachel Gammons are producing a book to be published by ABC-CLIO/Libraries Unlimited (publication date 2016)on designing information literacy programming for an academic library. They are seeking case studies which "serve to highlight the challenges and opportunities of information literacy programming in today’s complex academic environment" and specifically ones focusing on challenges and opportunities created by "spaces". The studies can be from any type of academic library, and they are particular interested in the first year experience. They say "Please note that case-studies do not necessarily have to have a 'happy ending.' We want to hear about your challenges and the process by which you have worked through them, but we understand that sometimes the most valuable experiences are those that do not turn out as we expected!" The case studies are not very long (about 1000 words in total). Deadline is 5 June 2015 (it says 22 May on the form, but they just issued an extended call). There is a proposal form with more details at http://form.jotformpro.com/form/51123320973952?
Photo by Sheila Webber: young beech leaves, May 2015

Land on troublesome knowledge

Ray Land's keynote from the #LILAC2015 conference, 'There could be trouble ahead’. Threshold Concepts, Troublesome Knowledge and Information Literacy – a current debate can be viewed as a recording at https://campus.recap.ncl.ac.uk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=fb2c8875-f382-4242-9e95-c4b5138fdc37
Photo by Sheila Webber: the heath, Blackheath, May 2015

The NICE Evidence Search Student Champion Scheme

A scheme organised by NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, in the UK) selects students to be student champions, aiming "to improve the routine use of evidence-based information by future doctors, pharmacists, nursing and other healthcare professionals. ... These students receive bespoke training and support to enable them to disseminate information about NICE Evidence Search to their fellow undergraduates in structured hands-on learning sessions." The scheme launched in 2011. Another good example of making students active in information literacy! https://www.nice.org.uk/get-involved/student-champions
Photo by Sheila Webber: One of the Sheffield peregrines feeding the chicks see http://peregrine.group.shef.ac.uk/peregrines/ - at the moment the chicks seem to love huddling in the corner the camera can't see, but there is often a parent bird visible on the perch outside the nest platform

ACRL instruction recordings: collaboration and learning outcomes

Recordings of webinars recently organised by the ACRL Instruction Section Management and Leadership Committee are now available:
Char Booth: Cultivating Campus Collaboration http://ala.adobeconnect.com/p3asujae6d4/ ("For librarians who work in information literacy program development, creating and sustaining meaningful ties with a diverse range of campus stakeholders is an essential and complex task. This webinar will involve participants in a discussion about cultivating effective institutional collaborations, from identifying and engaging potential partners to curriculum mapping strategies to assessing (and sometimes ending) campus relationships.")
Sara Lowe: Developing Learning Outcomes http://ala.adobeconnect.com/p54qgg8dc4c/ ("For librarians who teach, learning outcomes are vital. Without them, it is difficult to assess learning and gauge success. This session will discuss all aspects of learning outcomes so that participants can integrate them into their teaching practice.")
Photo by Sheila Webber: spring path, Blackheath, May 2015

Teaching or Training? Academic librarians’ conceptions of their IL teaching

In my previous post I mentioned that Emily Wheeler was presenting at the LIRG AGM on 1st July. Embedded below is her presentation on the same topic given at the LILAC conference in April. Emily also blogged about LILAC at https://exlibrislinguist.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/teaching-or-training-my-lilac-presentation/ and
https://exlibrislinguist.wordpress.com/2015/04/16/another-lilac-blog-post-workshop-on-hunting-assumptions/

Teaching or Training? Academic librarians’ conceptions of their IL teaching

#LIRG member's day: information literacy featured

The Library Information Research Group Member’s Day & AGM is taking place on 1 July, 3pm-6.30pm, in Liverpool, UK. It includes talks from LIRG prize winner (and one of my current PhD students) Jess Elmore on An exploration of the information literacy experiences of home educating families and Emily Wheeler (who was a Masters student here last year) on Teaching or training? Academic librarians’ conceptions of their IL activities. There is also a talk from Miggie Pickton on Developing a research culture in the workplace: top down and bottom up approaches
This event is free to CILIP and/or LIRG members, £21 to non-members. It says there is a limit of 15 participants, which seemes extremely small, but if this is true it is important to book at once!
Registration form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1amM4x0l6vIiUg4G0OpU3nZK3aDmJQyu9jIIeL4hKnEE/viewform
Jess Elmore's abstract: The presenter will discuss her dissertation, which explored the information literacy experiences of five home educating families. The research was constructivist with a grounded approach to data analysis and involved in-depth interviews with family groups (parents and children were interviewed together). The children in the study were aged between eight and seventeen. The presentation will include a summary of the context of home education in the UK and highlight the lack of information literacy research in this area. It will involve a brief discussion of the research methods and findings. The focus will be on how these findings relate to existing models of information literacy, with particular reference to the importance of reflection; the significance of communities of practice and the potential challenge to the orthodoxy of formal educational models.
Emily Wheeler's abstract: Despite much research into where and how librarians acquire their teaching skills and how much importance they place on teaching, not much is known about how they conceive of their teaching, their skills or themselves as teachers. This MA dissertation investigated the variation in conceptions of their own teaching skills among academic librarians who teach information literacy in higher education. The project used a qualitative phenomenographic interview approach with a sample of six academic librarians. This presentation will discuss the results of the research, presented as four categories of description, which vary according to interviewees’ conceptions of themselves, their teaching skills, IL, and other teachers. The research revealed how librarians conceive of themselves and their roles within the institution, as well as highlighting a lack of confidence among some participants.
Photo by Sheila Webber: horse chestnut blossom, May 2015

#LOEX2015 encore sessions

Online "encore" versions of some of the sessions held at LOEX 2015 (the key information literacy conference in the USA) are being run. "Each session will be one hour, will be (very likely) held in GoToMeeting or WebEx, and will allow for live interaction between presenters and attendees. These virtual sessions will utilize the material presenters have prepared for the LOEX 2015 conference and enable them to reach a wider audience of people, acting as a nice supplement to the conference."
Registration is priced per session ($15 US for those who attended the conference, more for those who didn't) and there is a limit of 40 for each.
The sessions are:
- June 11 Drinking on the Job: Integrating Workplace Information Literacy into the Curriculum, Alison Hicks (University of Colorado, Boulder)
- June 15 Two Information Literacy Threshold Concepts Walk into a Bar: Using Satirical News Sources to Promote Active Learning and Student Engagement, Stephanie Alexander (California State University East Bay)
- June 16 Reconsidering Threshold Concepts: A Critical Appraisal of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy, Lane Wilkinson (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
- June 16 Distributing Your Craft: Scaling Quality Instruction, Theresa Westbrock and Felipe Castillo (New Mexico State University)
- June 17 Does It Really Take 50 Minutes? Insights from Faculty Focus Groups on Delivering Library Instruction in a General Education Program, Jackie Sipes (Temple University)
- June 18 Taste Testing Research Topics: Assessing the Scope and Feasibility of First-Year Students' Research Paper Topics, Erin Rinto and Melissa Bowles-Terry (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
- June 18 Bias Isn't Always Bad: Teaching Students to Evaluate and Use Information Effectively, Anthony Sigismondi (St. Norbert College)
- June 22 Do You Come Here Often? Using Student Course Registration Data to Improve Your Teaching, Outreach, and Information Literacy Program, Erica Schattle (Tufts University)
More info at http://www.loexconference.org/virtual-sessions.html
Photo by Sheila Webber: white lilac, May 2015

Information literacy student awards

Penn State University (USA) has announced the winners of the 2015 University Libraries Award for Information Literacy which "recognizes students who have excelled in locating and using scholarly resources to support their research projects". The prize is focused on students participating in a poster exhibition. http://news.psu.edu/story/353692/2015/04/20/academics/students-win-cash-awards-information-literacy

Augustana human library

I have previously mentioned an iniative at the Augustana Library, University of Alberta, Canada: the human library. This consists of events where "people who have experienced prejudice or stereotyping in life" are invited to become human books; to come into the library in a relaxed coffee-chat environment, to tell their story and help their "readers" understand their stories. This is part of the information literacy programme at Augustana. I just noticed that there is a paper on this:
Goebel, Nancy. (2011). Fags, blacks and Hutterites: Challenging Prejudice and Stereotypes with the augustana human library. In Dawn W. Mueller (Ed.) Proceedings of the 2011 Conference of the Association of College & Research Libraries. Philadelphia, PA: Association of College and Research Libraries. http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/conferences/confsandpreconfs/national/2011/papers/fags_blacks.pdf
Photo by Sheila Webber: white lilac, May 2015

Some educational links

A couple of resources just noticed:
- A "53 ideas" series on the SEDA blog. The blog is publishing Graham Gibbs’ 53 Powerful Ideas All Teachers Should Know About (Gibbs is an educationalist of many years experience) and encouraging others to contribute ideas once they've finished the 53! https://thesedablog.wordpress.com/ (SEDA is "the professional association for staff and educational developers in the UK" and has useful material for higher education teachers).
- Latest issue of the open access Journal of Educational Technology & Society http://ifets.info/issues.php?id=66
Photo by Sheila webber: spring along my path to work, May 2015

Burnout

An valuable new blog on Academic Library Instruction Burnout has been set up by Maria Accardi. Accardi opens up her own experience and is encouraging others to share their own stories of burnout and emotional labour, anonymously if they want. "I think that one way of combating the state of burnout, examining its root causes, and inspiring a culture shift in the profession is giving voice to those who are experiencing the problem." https://libraryinstructionburnout.wordpress.com/
Photo by sheila Webber: Copper beech, new leaves, May 2015

Resources on pedagogy in higher education

Mick Healey is a long-established educational researcher in the UK. His website is a treasure trove of resources relevant to higher education (particularly in the UK). Through searching my own blog, I realise that I highlighted his bibliographies a few years ago, but it is worth mentioning them again as he continues to update them periodically (e.g. selective bibliographies on: Active learning and learning styles; Discipline based approaches to supporting learning and teaching; Pedagogic research and development; Students as change agents; Research-based curricula in college-based higher education). He also has substantial handouts from workshops that he runs e.g. one on Refreshing the Curriculum: Approaches to Curriculum Design (updated March 2015) and another useful item is a spreadsheet with a list of links to the archives of the former Higher Education Academy subject centres (which were centres in the UK focusing on pedgagy in different subject areas e.g. psychology, history, law; they all had some useful resources such as open access journals, teaching resources, but the centres were victims of government budget cuts). http://www.mickhealey.co.uk/resources
Photo by Sheila Webber: fallen cherry blossom petals, April 2015

International school libraries conference: also online #IASL2015

The 44th Annual International Conference & 17th International Forum on Research in School Librarianship takes place June 28 - July 2, 2015. The main conference is in Maastricht, The Netherlands. However, I mainly want to highlight that you can view a livestream of many conference presentations. You do not get alternatives, but certainly the provisional programme provides a full stream of sessions over the length of the conference. This includes numerous ones which are relevant to information literacy e.g. "Transformation, transfer, transition: what the school librarian can do in transliteracy, the French context" "Inquiry learning: educating librarians for their educational role" "Igniting the passion: Practical ways to engage and inspire our students to learn through the school library!". There is a fee (between 75 and 125 Euros depending on which region of the world you come from) http://iasl2015.org/online-conference/
Photo by Sheila Webber: candytuft, April 2015

#WILU2015 early bird rate

The early bird rate for the Canadian information literacy conference WILU ends on May 15. The conference is June 15-17 in St John's, Newfoundland, Canada. The abstracts of papers etc. are now on the website too at https://wilu2015.wordpress.com/
Photo by Sheila webber: waystation, London Marathon day, April 2015

Workshop zur Informationskompetenz im Netz

For German-speakers: a useful set of materials for running a workshop about information searching, evaluation of websites etc. You get teacher's materials, worksheets, powerpoint etc. It was produced by the Landesanstalt für Medien Nordrhein-Westfalen (LfM) in cooperation with the German UNESCO Commission and the Verband der Bibliotheken des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen Bildungsinstitutionen. Go to http://www.medienkompetenzportal-nrw.de/themen/informationskompetenz/workshop.html
Photo by Sheila Webber: hawthorn, Blackheath, May 2015

Social media/ Networking

A local-to-me event: #UKeiG and #CILIP Yorkshire & Humberside Member Network have organised a "networking event with talks on social media followed by light afternoon tea". It will be at Nabarro LLP, 1 South Victoria Quay, Victoria Quays, Sheffield, UK, on 16 July 2015 at 2pm. The speakers are:
"Laura Woods (Subject Librarian for Engineering and Allied Health at the University of Huddersfield). She has worked in information professional roles in several different sectors, including commercial law and charity. She can be found on Twitter as @woodsiegirl, and blogs at https://woodsiegirl.wordpress.com/.
"Penny Andrews is an artist, para-athlete, researcher and librarian. She'd call herself a polymath, but that would imply a greater objective level of success at these things, when she's probably better known for deconstructing popular culture and engaging in professional debate via social media. She manages not to swear on radio and TV, where she makes regular appearances. Doctor Who is one of Penny's special interests (she's autistic, so that implies a very special level of interest), but she can often be persuaded to talk about libraries, Open Access to research, social media, accessibility and other slightly less cultish topics.
"Karen Dolman began work on the Mobile and Home Library Service in a Black Country Local Authority. After many different roles in libraries, since qualifying, she now works as an Information Adviser at Sheffield Hallam University, in the Health and Wellbeing Faculty. She is really interested in how social media is used for study, and how useful it can be. She will be talking a little about her experience of engaging with social media in work and how she uses social media. She can be found @Podling on Twitter and blogs as 'Two-Wheeled Librarian' ."
Costs: UKeiG or CILIP members £6.00 (£5.00 + £1.00 VAT) Non-members £12.00 (£10 + £2.00 VAT)
To apply, email j.vodden@nabarro.com
Photo by Sheila Webber: apple blossom, Sheffield, May 2015

New free textbook: Teaching in a digital age

Just published on open access, Tony Bates has published Teaching in a digital age: Guidelines for designing teaching and learning for a digital age. It is available in various formats. I haven't read it yet, but it definitely looks interesting. The blurb runs "The book examines the underlying principles that guide effective teaching in an age when everyone,and in particular the students we are teaching, are using technology. A framework for making decisions about your teaching is provided, while understanding that every subject is different, and every instructor has something unique and special to bring to their teaching.The book enables teachers and instructors to help students develop the knowledge and skills they will need in a digital age: not so much the IT skills, but the thinking and attitudes to learning that will bring them success." http://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/
Photo by Sheila Webber: spring branch, May 2015

Presentations on information literacy and society

An interesting set of presentations from an event organised by the Scottish Information Literacy Community and SLIC in February 2015 e.g. on Information Literacy and the housing sector; infolit and young people; health literacy http://www.slideshare.net/SLICINFO There is also a Storify of the event: https://storify.com/SLIC1991/information-literacy-symposium
Photo by Sheila Webber: apple blossom, May 2015

#Copyright card game

A card game to help teach (UK) copyright was developed by Chris Morrison, Naomi Korn and Jane Secker for a SCONUL seminar and the material to create the card game is available on the repository JORUM under a creative commons (CC-BY-NC-SA) licence. There are instructions for tutors, a file of the cards to print and explanation for the learners. Go to http://find.jorum.ac.uk/resources/19369
Photo by Sheila Webber: "Lost item" series: lost plush big cat, April 2015 (fyi the last lost item was rescued, cleaned and adopted)

Ooer- #OERS: using free, shared, information literacy resources

On 24 June in Leeds, UK there is an event: Ooer- OERS: using free, shared, information literacy resources organised by ARLG Yorkshire and Humberside. This will look at "The what and how of using, re-writing and sharing Open Educational Resources in HE and FE library contexts. Speakers are:
Siobhan Burke, Open Educational Resources Service Manager at JISC. The information and digital literacy collection of Jorum, JISC’s learning and teaching resource sharing site.
Nancy Graham, Research Support and Academic Liaison Manager, Library Services at the LSE. Chair of CoPILOT (Community of Practice for Information Literacy Online Teaching): CoPILOT: what can we do for you? Supporting librarians to create, share and re-use information literacy resources openly.
Helen Howard, Learning Services Team Leader at the University of Leeds. Skills@Library: using and creating OERS
Sarah George, Subject Librarian at the University of Bradford (runner-up for CILIP IL Group’s Information Literacy award, 2015) OERs for people with no technical skills and no money.
£20 + VAT students/unemployed; £30 + VAT CILIP members; £40 + VAT non-CILIP members. Tea and lunch will be provided.
To book a place, please provide the following details and send to Katherine Turner at k.turner@leedsbeckett.ac.uk:
Name: Job title (if applicable): Institution (if applicable): Student/unemployed: Y/N CILIP member: Y/N If Yes, membership number: Dietary requirements: Access or support requirements: Name and address for invoicing:
Photo by Sheila Webber: Borage, April, 2015

Create Knowledge in Iceland in 2016 with #CKVIII

The 8th Creating Knowledge (CK) conference will be held in Reykjavík, Iceland, 2-3 June, 2016, hosted by the joint forces of Icelandic universities. This conference series is a Nordic collaboration arranged by NordINFOLIT: I have attended a number of CKs and they were all enjoyable and thought-provoking experiences! The conference theme is Practices, Goals and Visions for Information Literacy in Higher Education, with four sub-themes: Implementation of information literacy into the curriculum; Assessment of information literacy; Information literacy and writing centres; New challenges for information literacy. The call for papers will open on May 15 and the website is at http://upplysing.is/Default.asp?Page=487
Photo by Sheila Webber: cherry blossom in Blackheath, April 2015

#Teachmeet in Southampton

There's an information literacy teachmeet at Southampton Solent University, UK, on 16 July 2015 in the afternoon. "Do you have a problematic, inventive or interesting item to share about your information literacy teaching? We are looking for presenters, activities and attendees for a free event to share good practice" More info and registration at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/teachmeet-at-solent-university-arlg-southern-event-tickets-16513686882 Closing date for sign-up is 1 July
Photo by Sheila Webber: Borage and (another flower), Blackheath, April 2015

Game-based learning online discussion and tip sheet

Sign up quickly if you want to participate in the online discussion of game-based learning in library teaching which takes place on May 19 at 11am Pacific time USA (which is 7pm UK time): only 40 can participate. Sign up here http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0a49acac28a1f58-gamebased. The session is led by Annie Pho and Amanda Dinscore who wrote the short Tips and Trends article on Game Based Learning that has just been published on the ACRL Instruction Section, Instructional Technologies Committee Tips and Trends page. Go to http://www.ala.org/acrl/aboutacrl/directoryofleadership/sections/is/iswebsite/projpubs/tipsandtrends
Photo by Sheila Webber: Balloons at the start of the London Marathon on Blackheath, April 2015

Information Literacy in The Workplace: Information Literacy at the interface: @slaeurope @infolitgroup

On 21 May 2015 (6pm-9.30pm UK time), in London, UK, SLA Europe and CILIP Information Literacy Group are presenting an event: Information Literacy in The Workplace. It is free to SLA or CILIP ILG members, £15 to others. Speakers are Nancy Graham, Stéphane Goldstein and Ian Hunter. More info and booking at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sla-europe-cilip-ilg-information-literacy-in-the-workplace-tickets-16649442932
A second joint SLA Europe/CILIP ILG events is on 22 May, also in London, this time a morning event. Information Literacy at the interface: Learning from practice in the classroom and employment "will feature information professionals working in corporate settings and within higher education. They will offer insight into the strategies, and practical techniques and approaches to Information Literacy support applied in their respective sectors. These presentations will be followed by facilitated activity which will encourage the generation of new ideas and discussion, helping you to invigorate your own IL practice by learning from those in your sector and outside of it." Prices are the same as the first event. More information at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/information-literacy-at-the-interface-learning-from-practice-in-the-classroom-and-employment-tickets-16723854499
Photo by Sheila Webber: spring violets, April 2015

Evaluating Resources

Ithaca College Library has produced a short tutorial, Evaluating Resources, in which the ACCORD checklist is introduced (that's Agenda, Credentials, Citations, Oversight, Relevance, Date) and then you are asked to evaluate a few resources (on the theme of red wine and health) http://ithacalibrary.com/research/eval_tut/
Photo by Sheila Webber: red grapes.

#OERs and the DigiLit Leicester project

I webinar I attended alerted me to the DigiLit Leicester project. This is a project in the city of Leicester (UK) involving secondary schools, the city council and De Montfort University. "The project focuses on supporting secondary school teaching and teaching support staff in developing their digital literacy knowledge, skills and practice, and their effective use of digital tools, environments and approaches in their work with learners." Go to http://www.digilitleic.com/
Specifically, I was alerted to work with teachers on exploring OERs (Open Educational Resources) and there is asite for the OERs Schools conference that took place in Leicester in January 2015: there are presentations and reports here http://www.digilitleic.com/?page_id=700 and the hashtag was #OERSCH15.
Two general sites to do with OERs that were also mentioned are: OER Map and OER Research Hub
Photo by Sheila Webber: my cherry blossom, April 2015

Open University's Policy on Ethical use of Student Data for #LearningAnalytics

Interesting to see that the Open University has produced a few documents outlining its policy on ethical use of data that it collects about students' learning (e.g. all the information on which students has used what in a virtual learning environment or MOOC, student comments in discussion fora). They have a policy document, Policy on Ethical use of Student Data for Learning Analytics, an FAQ and a document aimed at the students' themselves, Using information to support student learning. This looks like a good development that others should follow. http://www.open.ac.uk/students/charter/essential-documents/ethical-use-student-data-learning-analytics-policy
Photo by Sheila Webber: cherry blossom in my garden this morning

World Book and Copyright Day 2015 #WBCD2015

Today is World Book and Copyright Day 2015 - for more information and ideas go to
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/prizes-and-celebrations/celebrations/international-days/world-book-and-copyright-day-2015/

#UNESCO seeks volunteers to support a #MIL MOOC

UNESCO is looking for 15-20 volunteers to be (unpaid I think) tutors on the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in media and information literacy (MIL) which it offers in partnership with Athabasca University and the UNESCO-UNAOC University Network on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue. The course is aimed at young people aged 15-25. The course runs for 2 months and tutors are expected to devote about 2 hours a week to giving feedback on students' journals, questions and assignments.
"The course is designed to enable youth to: Understand why media and other information providers are important to development and democratic societies; Recognise a need for information and to locate, access, organise and critically evaluate information and the content of media and other information providers; Use and share information and technology based on ethical principles or accepted standards of social behaviour – in light of opportunities and potential risks; Interact with media and other information providers to freely express themselves, share their culture and learn about other cultures, promote gender equality, and participate in democratic and development activities."
"If there are professors, associate professors or tutors in universities, independent consultants, experts, qualified MIL practitioners, and PhD students, pursuing a related field of study that would like to volunteer to please send your name, organizations affiliation, contact information and CV to l.mustapha@unesco.org"
Photo by Sheila Webber: cherry blossom, April 2015

Second Life infolit journal club: 22 April

Join us in the virtual world Second Life for a one-hour discussion of an open-access article. Marshall Dozier, Edinburgh University (Pancha Enzyme in Second Life) leads a discussion on:
Eckerdal, J.R. (2011). "To jointly negotiate a personal decision: a qualitative study on information literacy practices in midwifery counselling about contraceptives at youth centres in Southern Sweden" Information Research, 16(1) paper 466. http://InformationR.net/ir/16-1/paper466.html

When: April 22nd at noon SL time (which is 8pm UK time, see http://tinyurl.com/mgekh5g for times elsewhere)

Where: Infolit iSchool, in the virtual world Second Life. You need a SL avatar and the Second Life browser installed on your computer. Go to http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/134/47/22

Everyone is welcome to join the one-hour discussion.

A Sheffield iSchool Centre for Information Literacy Research event.
Photo by Sheila Webber, taken in Second Life

The Future Scholar: Researching & Teaching the Frameworks for Writing & Information Literacy

There is a call for papers for a book: The Future Scholar: Researching & Teaching the Frameworks for Writing & Information Literacy. The two frameworks in question (both North American) are the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (http://acrl.ala.org/ilstandards/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Framework-for-IL-for-HE-draft-3.pdf) from the Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing (http://wpacouncil.org/files/framework-for-success-postsecondary-writing.pdf), produced by the Council of Writing Program Administrators, the National Council of Teachers of English, and the National Writing Project. The deadline for proposals is June 1st.
They seek chapters "that provide answers to the following, as well as other, questions: What do the particular abilities, habits, and practices of mind identified for reading, researching, and writing reveal about notions of literacy in a digital age? What priorities do they establish for us as writing teachers, faculty in English, English Education, and LIS, university administrators and college librarians, and citizens?; How do the ACRL Framework and the WPA Framework help us understand one another? What do we learn by viewing each through the lens of the other? How might they be put into conversation?; In what ways does your teaching—in the classroom, in the library, in the writing center, in the community—work to cultivate the desired abilities, habits, and practices of mind advanced by these framework documents?; What specific digital technologies allow for helping students achieve these abilities, habits, and practices of mind? In what ways have you used them? How might we use them? How could these tools be better?
We also encourage potential contributors to consider the Frameworks documents explicitly and directly, practical strategies for enacting and evaluating them, and ways in which new digital technologies (might) shape the Frameworks and these processes."
More information at http://lists.ala.org/wws/arc/ili-l/2015-04/msg00082.html
Photo by Sheila Webber: cherry blossom, April 2015

Information and Digital Literacy for Online Collaborative Design

A webinar on Information and Digital Literacy for Online Collaborative Design, led by Dr Mark Childs is being hosted by InformAll on 11 May 2015, at 16.00 UK time (which is, e.g. 11am US Eastern time, 8am Pacific time): it lasts 90 minutes. It will be chaired by Stéphane Goldstein of the Research Information Network and co-ordinator of the InformAll initiative.
The focus is on skills needed/developed by students who were collaborating with students at a different university, with findings emerging from two projects.  "Findings examined: The motivation of the students for taking part and their perception of benefits; The difficulties and issues that students faced and how these were addressed.; The learning that students gained about the skills required for online collaboration.; The skills and issues that students faced, and skills acquired, in their synchronous communication." More information at http://www.researchinfonet.org/infolit/ridls/informall-webinars/collab-design/
Photo by Sheila Webber: white cherry blossom, April 2015, photoshop effect.

cfp SEDA conference

There is a call for papers for the 20th Annual SEDA (Staff and Educational Development Association) Conference: Scholarship and Educational Development: The importance of using an evidence base for Learning and Teaching. This will be held 19-20 November 2015 in Cardiff, Wales. Posters, discussion papers and workshops can be proposed, deadline 15 May, 5pm UK time. The themes are: Scholarship which supports curriculum development and has important implications for the thinking and the practice of educators and developers; The integration of scholarship in the practice of both staff and students; Innovative practice in educational development which takes advantage of scholarship; Supporting and encouraging integration between research and approaches to learning and teaching; Strategies and techniques for the critical and effective embedding of new approaches which make appropriate use of subject pedagogic scholarship; Scholarship as a driver for change; Supporting colleagues to engage in scholarly activities through developmental activities; Raising the profile of the scholarship of Teaching and Learning within institutions. More info at http://www.seda.ac.uk/events/info/454/call-for-contributions
Photo by Sheila Webber: Cherry Blossom, April 2015

ACRL's Teaching Librarian of the month

Alicia Salaz (Reference and Instruction Librarian, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar) is April's Teaching Librarian of the month. Q and A at http://acrl.ala.org/isteach/category/teaching-librarian-of-the-month/

Journal of Documentation: taxonomy of literacies; Sadomasochism; credibility judgements;

The latest issue (online early publication) of the (subscription-only) Journal of Documentation (volume 71 issue 3) includes an article by my colleague Dr Peter Stordy which provides an analysis of various kinds of literacy using a matrix:
Taxonomy of Literacies by Peter Howard Stordy
There is also a research article on a less usual topic: Information Literacies of Self-Identified Sadomasochists: An Ethnographic Case Study by J. Tuomas Harviainen
and one on a perenially interesting theme: As simple as that?: Tween credibility assessment in a complex online world by Mega Subramaniam , Natalie Greene Taylor , Beth St. Jean , Rebecca Follman , Christie Kodama, Dana Casciotti
Abstracts at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/jd/71/3
I haven't covered JDoc for a while, so I'll also pick some articles from the last couple of issues
Koltay, T. (2015) Data literacy: in search of a name and identity. Journal of Documentation, 71(2), 401 - 415. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/jd/71/2
Kostagiolas, P. et al (2015) Music, musicians and information seeking behaviour: A case study on a community concert band. Journal of Documentation, 71(1), 3-24.
Hampson Lundh, A., Francke, H. and Sundin, O. (2015) To assess and be assessed: Upper secondary school students’ narratives of credibility judgements. Journal of Documentation, 71(1), 80-95.
Savolainen, R. (2015) The interplay of affective and cognitive factors in information seeking and use: Comparing Kuhlthau’s and Nahl’s models. Journal of Documentation, 71(1), 175 - 197. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/jd/71/1
Photo by Sheila Webber: Cherry Blossom, April 2015

How the Internet inflates estimates of internal knowledge

An article (Fisher et al., 2015) reports on a very interesting series of experiments, which explored the question of whether people feel that they have become more knowledgeable just through the act of searching. The answer is basically "yes", even when people don't find anything from the search.
"Searching for answers online leads to an illusion such that externally accessible information is conflated with knowledge “in the head” (Experiment 1a and b). This holds true even when controlling for time, content, and search autonomy during the task (Experiment 1c). Furthermore, participants who used the Internet to access explanations expected to have increased brain activity, corresponding to higher quality explanations, while answering unrelated questions (Experiment 2a). This effect is not driven by a misinterpretation of the dependent measure (Experiment 2b) or general overconfidence (Experiment 3) and is driven by querying Internet search engines (Experiment 4a-c)."

Fisher, M., Goddu, M., & Keil, F. (2015). Searching for explanations: how the Internet inflates estimates of internal knowledge. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000070 (advanced online publication) There is a self-archived copy here: http://campuspress.yale.edu/matthewfisher/files/2015/03/pdf-16ueczx.pdf

I discovered this via: Novella, S. (2015, April 6). The Google University Effect. Neurologica blog. http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/the-google-university-effect/ which in turn I discovered through a discussion post by Peter Tagtmeyer.
Photo by Sheila webber: cherry blossom, April 2015

LIBRES moves

The refereed open access journal LIBRES is now being hosted by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The current issue includes:
Khoo, C. (2014). Issues in information behaviour on social media. LIBRES, 24 (2). http://libres-ejournal.info/all-issues/volume-24-issue-2/
Photo by Sheila Webber: cherry blossom, April 2014

#lilac15 powerpoints and more

There are loads of the presentations from last week's LILAC conference going up at http://www.slideshare.net/infolit_group/presentations - really quick work by the LILAC team! Explore for yourself: a couple that caught my eye were:
- New horizons: taking information literacy teaching from the classroom to the MOOC by Karina Bradshaw http://www.slideshare.net/infolit_group/bradshaw-46936956
- Embedding information literacy into second level school curriculum: experiences of Maynooth University by Elaine Bean http://www.slideshare.net/infolit_group/embedding-information-literacy-into-second-level-school-curriculum-experiences-of-maynooth-university-elaine-bean
And here's a presentation in another format that might not get onto Slideshare - from Lily Todorinova on Wikipedia in library instruction http://app.emaze.com/@AOTCZQLT/wikipedia-in-library-instruction-lilac#1

Also a couple of substantial storifies of the conference
Paul Gray https://storify.com/paulkgray/lilac15
Vicki Cormie https://storify.com/viche/lilac-2015
Photo by Sheila Webber: cherry blossom in Crookes Valley park, April 2015

ALA Instructional Design Essentials ecourse

The ALA Instructional Design Essentials ecourse runs May 4-29. "In this ecourse, instructional librarians Nicole Pagowsky and Erica DeFrain will provide you with a foundation in instructional design. Whether you teach face-to-face, online, or develop online tutorials, this course will help you hone your teaching skills and prepare you for your instructional needs. Throughout the course, you will be developing an instructional design plan for one of your upcoming workshops, courses, or tutorials, and will receive feedback on it from the instructors and fellow participants. This project will build on itself each week with a revision and reflection as part of the final assignment." http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=11136
Photo by Sheila Webber: cherry blossom in the grass, April 2015

Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015

Yesterday Pew Internet Research published a report on (US) Teens, Social Media & Technology. They administered an online survey, in English and Spanish, to a nationally (USA) representative sample of 1060 teens ages 13 to 17 and a parent or guardian, with the bulk of the data collected in autumn 2014. Some snippets:
"88% of American teens ages 13 to 17 have or have access to a mobile phone of some kind, and a majority of teens (73%) have smartphones."
"87% of American teens ages 13 to 17 have or have access to a desktop or laptop computer, and 58% of teens have or have access to a tablet computer."
"81% of teens 13 to 17 have or have access to a game console such as a Playstation, Xbox or Wii." "72% of teens play video games online or on their phone"
"92% of teens report going online daily — with 24% using the internet “almost constantly,”"
"The number of text messages sent or received by cell phone owning teens ages 13 to 17 (directly through phone or on apps on the phone) on a typical day is 30."
"When asked to rank social media sites by their frequency of use, Facebook is the platform that teens report that they use most often, with 41% of youth saying they use it most. Instagram is the next most often used social media platform, with 20% of teens saying they use it most often."
14% use tumblr, 24% use Vine, 33% use Google+, 11% use anonymous sharing apps, 47% use video connections such as Skype,
There are some differences according to gender, ethnicity and household income (e.g. more African-Americans have smartphones, wealthier homes have higher access to PCs, more boys than girls have access to a game console).
The report is free online at http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/04/09/teens-social-media-technology-2015/
Photo by Sheila Webber: cherry blossom, April 2015

#lilac15 winners

Yesterday the Credo Reference Digital Award for Information Literacy 2015 was awarded to Andy Horton and Chris Rowell, Regent’s University London, for the Twelve Apps of Christmas (12AOC) https://openeducation.blackboard.com/mooc-catalog/courseDetails/view?course_id=_98_1
The CILIP IL Group/TALIS Information Literacy Award 2015 went to Katharine Reedy (Acting Library Services Manager – Digital & Information Literacy, Open University)
The student sponsored places were awarded to Lucinda May and Maria Nagle

#lilac15

Yesterday was the first day of the LILAC conference. There are loads of tweets, so you might want to follow it today and tomorrow https://twitter.com/hashtag/lilac15 Skimming through the tweets, I picked up a couple of links
- Isla Kuhn blogs about the library tour of the Walton Library (library of the Medical & Dental School of Newcastle University) https://ilk21.wordpress.com/2015/04/09/lilac15-lilac-2015-thoughts-on-the-walton-library/
- Keynoter Barbara Fister blogs about one of her fellow keynoters, Ray Land: https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/%E2%80%9C-bit-tall-order%E2%80%9D

Engaging with the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy

Another online ACRL FRamework event (free)! This is on 6 May at 2pm US Eastern time, 11am US Pacific time, which is 7pm UK time: the Georgia Library Association--Carterette Series Webinar, Engaging with the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy. To register go to http://goo.gl/xIIo4F A URL for the event will be emailed to you after registration.
"Trudi Jacobson and Craig Gibson, co-chairs of the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education Task Force, will identify the ideas underpinning the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy, which creates new opportunities for collaboration on campuses around student engagement with the information ecosystem. ... The presenters will identify principles for instructional design supporting the Framework, as well as assessment methods that address developmental aspects of learning the information literacy concepts and practices comprising the Framework."
Photo by Sheila Webber: willow, canal, Amsterdam, April 2015

Report on types of #MOOC support offered by libraries

The edX Library Collaboration has published a report resulting from a project in which librarians etc. at 39 higher education institutions were interviewed about how they were supporting MOOCs. The institutions were mostly in North America, but with some from Australia, China and Europe, and they were almost all using either edX or Coursera (with one using the Futurelearn MOOC platform).
They identified that libraries were supporting MOOCs by: Copyright Clearance; Open content promotion; Licensing resources; Instructional support; Production support; in some cases with a general support model (e.g. a librarian assigned to each MOOC).
Institutional factors affecting the library's engagement with MOOCs were: Nature of MOOCs offered by the institution; Institutional coordination of MOOCs; Models of MOOC support; Structure of existing [library] services; [library] Staff and budget.
O'Brien, L. et al (2014) Working Group on Models for Course Support and Library Engagement Report. edX
Libraries Collaboration. http://tinyurl.com/q5u9kq2
Picture: I thought it amusing that apparently the word "bookmark" must have been appropriated to mean web bookmarks, so that you have to find a new word to mean, um, bookmarks. This has nothing to do with MOOCs, by the way.

2 events on the ACRL Framework: webinar and seminar

Firstly, registration for the California Library Association’s California Spring Fling, Information Has Value: An Exploration, is open. The CLA’s Academic Interest Group is sponsoring a webinar April 22 2015 at 2:00pm (14:00) US Pacific time, which is 10pm UK time. It is a priced webinar led by Elizabeth Galoozis and Carolyn Caffrey Gardner. The description says "“Information Has Value” is a frame in the proposed ACRL Information Literacy Framework, and seemingly the most controversial. How is value defined? How do our professional values reinforce or conflict with current intellectual property laws, information literacy standards and practices, and collection development models? A presentation will be followed by an online discussion will allow participants a chance to explore and discuss the provocative elements of this concept." More information at http://www.cla-net.org/?859.

Secondly, registration is open for a workshop taking place at Capilano University (North Vancouver, Canada) on May 1 2015, on the Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education, presented by Capilano University and the BCLA Academic Librarians Section. Cost: $25 BCLA members; $30 non-members; $20 students. Lunch and coffee will be provided. "Through presentations, small-group work, and individual planning and reflection, the workshop will open up conversation around the following questions: What theoretical concepts guided the creation of the new Framework? How does the Framework compare to the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (2000)? What are the six “frames”? What are the first steps to implementing the Framework in our institutions? How will this impact student learning outcomes and the way we teach our classes? What new opportunities for collaboration and project work will the new Framework present? As a community of practice, what is our commitment to the Framework and its role in teaching and learning?
More information at http://lists.ala.org/wws/arc/ili-l/2015-04/msg00003.html (that post includes the registration form)
Photo by Sheila Webber: budding willow and crows, Blackheath, March 2015

#ACRL2015 proceedings, presentations, tweets

The ACRL (North American academic librarians) conference just took place in Portland, USA. As usual there were sessions relevant to information literacy. The conference Twitter is https://twitter.com/ACRL2015 and the hashtag was https://twitter.com/hashtag/acrl2015?f=realtime.
There is a page with links to full papers from presenters (not all, I think, but quite a lot) at http://acrl.learningtimesevents.org/proceedings/ Examples of papers linked from this proceedings page (which are listed in alphabetical order of title) are:
- Information Use during the First College Year: Findings from the NSSE Experiences with Information Literacy Module by Kevin Fosnacht
- Leading Them to Water and Making Them Drink: Flipping Instruction by Laura Heinz and Donell Callender
- Measuring Our Information Literacy Footprint: Assessing Game-Based Learning in Library Instruction by Katelyn Angell and Eamon C. Tewell
- New Roles for the Road Ahead: Essays Commissioned for ACRL’s 75th Anniversary by Steven Bell, Lorcan Dempsey, and Barbara Fister
- Patterns in Information Literacy Instruction: What’s Really Going on in Our Classrooms? by Pearl Herscovitch, Margy MacMillan, and Sara Sharun
- Promoting Transferable Research Skills: A New Take on English Composition Assessment by Melissa N. Mallon
- Rethinking an Established Information Literacy Program: How Leveraging Assessment Data Can Improve Teaching and Promote Change by Katie Bishop and Eleanor Johnson
- Searching in the Wild: Observing Information-Seeking Behavior in a Discovery Tool by Heather A. Dalal, Amy K. Kimura, and Melissa A. Hofmann
- Self-Beliefs and Course-Related Research: Proposing an Expansion of the Imposed Query Model for Undergraduate Students by Amanda L. Folk

I also picked out a few links relevant to information literacy.
- The session on The Topography of Learning: Using Cognitive Mapping to Evolve and Innovate in the Academic Library, by Donna Lanclos and colleagues, garnered a lot of attention on Twitter. Here is the presentation https://prezi.com/qvhdcuiikine/the-topography-of-learning-using-cognitive-mapping-to-evolve-and-innovate-in-the-academic-library/ and here is a storify by Maura Smale https://storify.com/mauraweb/the-topography-of-learning-using-cognitive-mapping
- Shifting our Focus, Evolving our Practice: A Collaborative Conversation about the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (slides from a panel by Donna Witek Danielle Theiss and Joelle Pitts) http://www.slideshare.net/donnarosemary/shifting-our-focus-evolving-our-practice
- Promoting Data Literacy: teaching and learning with data in the undergraduate classroom (Adam Beauchamp and Christine Murray) http://www.slideshare.net/AdamBeauchamp/acrl2015-data-literacyatthegrassrootsfinal
- Sustaining and enhancing embedded library instruction in the learning management system (Cass Kvenild, Kaijsa Calkins, John Burke, and Beth Tumbleson): http://goo.gl/bCRucw
- A Libguide to accompany a panel on On Campus, Online, Off Hours: Librarian Strategies that Sustain Graduate Student Scholarship and Discourse http://campusguides.stjohns.edu/content.php?pid=663788&sid=5497065
- Description of a teaching intervention by Jennifer Ditkoff: REMIX!! Teaching ethical issues related to digital information creation https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HDPOxJlYD9salNoJWnhW0AfmTdIzAZw609KogrA7GdI/edit
This is the conference wrap video