Staffordshire University is pleased to announce a forthcoming one day
conference for 2006,
'Information Literacy: recognising the need' held at:
Staffordshire University Stoke Campus Wednesday 17th May 2006.
A number of well known experts in the field of information literacy have
agreed to speak at this new event.
The provisional list is as follows:
Susie Andretta,
Senior Lecturer in Information Management, London Metropolitan
University. Susie has been working within the field of information
literacy education for the past ten years, integrating this in a range
of disciplines and at all levels of provision. She has recently
published a book Information literacy: a practitioner's guide (2005)
which presents information literacy as a foundation of independent and
lifelong learning, and explores the impact of this approach on the
facilitator and the learner, illustrating its empowering effect. She is
currently editing a special issue on information literacy commissioned
by Italics, the online journal of HEA-ICS, entitled Information
literacy: challenges of implementation (due in January 2006) which looks
at the problems of employing the IL framework of learning within the
education sector as a whole.
The paper she will present at the conference aims to establish IL as the
new pedagogy of the question, reiterating the view that IL is about
learning how to learn and that, because of this, it cannot be separated
from the learning process, but should be used as a catalyst for
educational change.
Moira Bent
Faculty Liaison Librarian, University of Newcastle and National
Learning and Teaching Fellow. Moira's particular interests are support
for research, information literacy and staff development. She chairs the
Newcastle Library Infolit group and the ResIN (research support) group
and is also the project manager for the Library Information Literacy
Project. In 2002 she won the CILIP UC&R Innovation Award for a project
on using a VLE for staff development and is currently the joint holder
of a University Teaching Fellowship studying the integration of
information literacy into the chemistry curriculum. Moira plans to use
her recently awarded National Teaching Fellowship to study the impact of
Information Literacy on the student learning experience.
Moira will talk about the Newcastle Information Literacy Forum, a
working partnership of academic, library and educational development
staff and describe the IL toolkit currently under development together
with the pedagogical principles underpinning its creation.
Debbi Boden,
Debbi Boden is a Faculty Team Leader at Imperial College London. She
is chair of the Library Information Literacy Group and lead on the
project to create the College's Online Information Literacy Programme,
Olivia. Debbi is also Chair and founder of the CILIP CSG Information
Literacy Group whose aim is to promote IL across all sectors, and who
recently organised the LILAC 2005 conference.
Her topic: the phrase 'Who trains the trainers?' has been with us for
some time but it is a good question. Teaching has become core to the
remit of many librarians in HE but it is not an area addressed in
library schools. Debbi will reflect on some of the issues surrounding
training and staff development for 'teaching librarians' and explain how
Imperial College is addressing this issue with their new online
Information Literacy Internal Programme - iLIP.
Sheila Corrall,
Sheila Corrall is Professor of Librarianship & Information Management at
the University of Sheffield. Before taking up this post, she spent 13
years leading and managing university library and information services,
most recently as Director of Academic Services at the University of
Southampton. Sheila has published three books and more than 50 articles
on professional and management topics and has served on many committees
of national bodies. In 2002 she became the first President of the
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) and
in 2003 received the International Information Industry Lifetime
Achievement Award for her contribution to the information profession.
Sheila has a longstanding interest in information literacy. She set up
the Task Force that produced the SCONUL position paper on Information
Skills in Higher Education, co-edited the proceedings of its 'Seven
Pillars' conference and then chaired the Executive Group which produced
the recent CILIP definition of information literacy.
Sheila's keynote presentation will focus on Strategic Issues in
Information Literacy Development, offering a multi-faceted perspective
on factors determining the progress and success of information literacy
initiatives at national and institutional levels.
Peter Godwin,
Academic Services Manager, in Learning & Information Services at
London South Bank University. He has been a member of the SCONUL ACIL
(Advisory Committee for Information Literacy) and is now a member of the
new Working Group on Information Literacy. His particular interests
have been in defining levels of Information Literacy and in how to
engage academic staff in Information Literacy.
His theme is "Keeping up with the Google generation: the challenge for
Information Literacy teachers." Students continue to seek quick answers
and instant gratification in their information searching. Google and
other search engines are a natural solution. Now Google Scholar adds to
the possible demise of systematic searching of specific "library"
databases. Federated searching as a library solution often still appears
cumbersome and unsatisfactory. Librarians need to embrace all the new
solutions of searching, assisting the growth of Google Scholar and
promoting it alongside subject databases and federated searching at the
appropriate level. Only then can we hope to engage our users and help
them to develop the skills they need now and in later life.
Mark Hepworth,
Dr. Mark Hepworth is a lecturer in the Department of Information
Science at Loughborough University. He teaches information retrieval at
a postgraduate and undergraduate level and also how to develop user
centred information services. His research focuses on information needs
and information seeking behaviour. Through his studies of information
behaviour, over the last ten years, he has developed an interest in
information literacy. Current research projects focus on how
information literacy is learnt and taught.
Mark will be leading an "Ask the Panel" discussion.
Sheila Webber,
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Studies at the
University of Sheffield.
Sheila's topic will be "Working towards the Information Literate
University". She will be discussing the Information Literate University
(ILU) as a desired outcome for institutional strategy. In reflecting on
its potential aims and key leaders and stakeholders she will draw on:
research carried out with Johnston and Boon, which elicited academics'
conceptions of the ILU; early experience of being part of a Centre for
Excellence in Teaching and Learning (namely the Centre for Inquiry-based
Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences, which includes information
literacy as a focus); and observations of progress and practice in
universities outside the UK.
Proceedings of the conference will be published for the UK and
international market and all delegates will receive a bound copy of the
papers presented.
Further details, including a call for papers, will be issued in the near
future.
For further information and a provisional booking please contact:
Geoff Walton ( <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask])
or
Alison Pope ( <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask])
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Geoff Walton, Learning & Teaching Fellow,
Subject & Learning Support Librarian,
Learning Support,
Information Services
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Staffordshire University,
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