Thursday, September 4, 2014 at 8:26PM Jenny Foreman & Paul Gray from the Scottish Government Library attended the 10th LILAC (Librarians' Information Literacy Annual Conference) hosted by Sheffield Hallam University from 23rd-25th April 2014.
Visit the Library's blog to read our summary of the action, followed by our pick of the presentations.
Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 2:28PM Journal of Information Literacy, Volume 8 (1) June 2014 is now published and includes articles from LILAC 2014 and book reviews including John and I's book.
Editorial
A matter of perspective, Jane Secker
Articles
Assessing information literacy programmes using information search tasks . Nikolas Leichner, Johannes Peter, Anne-Kathrin Mayer, Günter Krampen
Bilingual workplaces: integrating cultural approaches to information literacy into foreign language educational practices. Alison Hicks
The creation of a university library outreach programme to develop the information literacy of further education students: an interactive approach to support transition. Lisa Anderson, Stephen Bull
Articles from LILAC
Exploring the lived information-seeking experiences of mature students. Sarah Clark
Projects
AMORES - Discovering a love for literature through digital collaboration and creativity. Geoff Walton
Information literacy: a matter of course. Elizabeth Tilley
Graduate information literacy in online education using the embedded librarian model. Lauryl A. Lefebvre, Martha C. Yancey
Conference corner
LILAC 2014 Conference report: a student’s perspective. Amanda Brennan
LILAC and IL: Views from outside the academy. Penny C S Andrews
Book reviews
Book Review of Heine, C. and O’Connor, D. 2014. Teaching information fluency: how to teach students to be efficient, ethical and critical information consumers. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press. Jennifer Wilson
Book Review of Hepworth, M. and Walton, G. (eds). 2013. Developing people’s information capabilities. Bingley: Emerald. Evi Tramantza
Book review of Baker, K. 2013. Information literacy and cultural heritage. Cambridge: Chandos Publishing. Lorna Hughes
Book review of Crawford, J. and Irving, C. 2013. Information literacy and lifelong learning: policy issues, the workplace, health and public libraries. Oxford: Chandos Publishing. Natasha Skeen
JIL, LILAC 2014 in Cross sector Monday, April 28, 2014 at 11:01AM In addition to presenting at LILAC I attended other parallel sessions on the Thursday. I also tweeted at the sessions and or retweeted others. The Twitter feed was #lilac2014 -it is worth a look.
As usual I picked sessions that were not mainstream for LILAC - these were:
I was interested to hear that the CILIP IL subgroup that aims to support and encourage the development and sharing of information literacy teaching materials as open educational resources is looking at creating a website for their Community of Practice. The group discussion about why people are or are not sharing was similar to a discussion I had held at an EU workshop earlier in the year. Similar reasons given.
Drew (Andrew) Whitworth's presentation was a theoretical look at IL where he looked at 'new theories of IL and discussed implications for practice'. Whilst some of the articles he spoke about were new to me - many of his implications for practice were not as I and John Crawford have been saying this for years based on our research and experience e.g.
He has a new book coming out 'Radical Information Literacy' it is a Chandos Publication.
Good to see a school librarian Darren Flynn, Dixons Allerton Academy presenting at LILAC. I was interested to hear that the library has the 'largest teaching space in the school'. Other aspects were familiar issues such as 'pupils need to be more independent learners', linking IL to the curriculum, 'project based learning where pupils have to come up with their own driving question'.
LILAC 2014, presentations in Cross sector, Schools Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at 7:44AM Congratulations to the winners of LILAC's bursary scheme which was set up this year to enable access to the LILAC conference for librarians from sectors which traditionally struggle to secure funding from their employers.
They are:
Congratulations also to CILIP's Information Literacy Group / the LILAC Comittee for offering this bursary.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at 9:03AM Plans and news from LILAC are coming thick and fast.
Paper accepted - the paper I submitted has been accepted - so good news there. The paper is on the community of practice 'Information Skills for a 21st century Scotland: a National Information Literacy Community of Practice'. I'm going to look at the achievements and lessons learned from the Scottish Information Literacy project; what a community of practice is; what the online information literacy community of practice: Information Skills for a 21st century Scotland looks like and reflect on what has been achieved to date by this community of practice with no budget or funding but through the generosity of people and organisations’ time and commitment to the community; the benefits of a community of practice; what has worked and what hasn’t; lessons learned and the challenges it faces.
LILAC bursaries announced - three conference places are being offered for the following sectors: Shools/FE, Public, Health. For details see http://www.lilacconference.com/WP/bursaries/ Closing date 7th February 2014 at 17:00 GMT.
LILAC 2014 awards launched
For full details of the nomination process see http://www.lilacconference.com/WP/awards/
LILAC 2014, awards, bursaries, papers in Colleges, Cross sector, Health, Public Libraries 