Centre for Information Literacy Research event: IL in strategies; thesauri;
inspiration; schools: 4 project reports
Free afternoon with presentations on three information literacy projects
completed earlier this year, and a report of ongoing doctoral work.
When: Thursday 6 August 2009: 1.45pm-4.20pm (Registration from 1.15)
Where: Room 204, Regent Court, Department of Information Studies, University of
Sheffield (map at http://tinyurl.com/mbwcfp)
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1.15pm Registration and tea/coffee
1.45 pm Sheila Webber. Introduction: Information Literacy, an evolving concept
2pm Kate Coleson and Chloe Furnival. Developing a thesaurus for information
literacy
Abstract: There are increasing numbers of websites, articles, blogs and books
about information literacy, but as yet there is no specialised information
literacy thesaurus that would help in tagging, organising and retrieving this
material. In this talk we will describe the process of developing a draft
thesuarus, and present the outline of our latest draft for discussion. We will
be very interestedin hearing people’s ideas about how this work could be
developed and used.
2.30pm Samantha Abrahams and Hannah Wood: Analysis of Departmental Learning
Teaching and Assessment Strategies’ (DLTAS) treatment of information literacy
Abstract: The University of Sheffield requires each Department to have a
Departmental Learning Teaching and Assessment Strategy, based on the
institutional strategy (see
http://www.shef.ac.uk/lets/projects/strategy/ltastrategy.html). Since
information literacy is identified as a graduate attribute in this
institutional strategy, we analysed the Departmental strategies to examine how
information literacy was treated at the Departmental level. This was done by
undertaking a content analysis of a sample of the strategies. We will report on
our results and reflect on the implications.
3pm Tea/coffee break
3.20 David Brown and George Davies: LILAC delegates’ influential books,
articles
& web resources
Abstract: We undertook a survey at the 2009 Librarians’ Information Literacy
(LILAC) conference, the major information literacy conference in the United
Kingdom. Our research was designed to uncover the books, articles and web
resource which attendees at the conference have found inspirational for their
learning and teaching philosophies. This was a comparative study to a survey of
delegates at the LOEX-of-the-West conference in the USA. The unannotated list
of items can be found at http://dis.shef.ac.uk/sheila/brown-davies-2009.pdf and
we will provide further analysis and reflection.
3.50 3.50 Shahd Salha: Information Literacy in school libraries in Syria
Abstract: Information literacy has been the main core of many researches since
Bruce’s work in 1998; but in the Syrian context, this research is pioneering.
This phenomonographic research aims to study the variation and changes in the
school librarians’ concepts of information literacy. The research is carried
out in three stages pre-view, training programme and post-view.
4.20 Close
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Sheila Webber
Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield,
211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK
0114 222 2641
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