Dear Emma - welcome out of the shadows! This seems a great resource. I look forward to exploring it in more detail and will certainly recommend to colleagues
Best wishes
Pauline
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Pauline Ridley
On 3 Aug 2011, at 10:37, "Emma Coonan" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear LDHEN,
>
> [Lurking librarian de-cloaking nervously ... ]
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> I've just completed a 10-week research project at Cambridge University as part of the Arcadia Project, which is intended to explore in a number of ways the role of the academic library in the digital age. I work as Research Skills Librarian at Cambridge University Library, and my project partner was Dr Jane Secker of LSE's Centre for Learning Technology. Our brief was to design a curriculum for information literacy that would meet the changing needs of undergraduates coming into HE over the next five years. (No pressure, then ... )
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> We reviewed the existing state of information literacy in higher education (including the contested and problematic nature of the term 'information literacy' itself) and interviewed a number of experts from the fields of education and information. This research fed into the design of a practical curriculum outlining ten thematic strands within information literacy and offering example activities and assessments within each strand, as well as a number of supporting documents. Our research was informed by an understanding of information literacy as a complex continuum of skills, competencies, attitudes and behaviours, and by the belief that IL is a fundamental element in the ongoing development of the individual, social as well as academic. We endeavoured throughout to take a learner-centred approach rather than a library-focused perspective, which was helped greatly by having a learning developer as a member of our support team (BIG hat-tip to Helen Webster).
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> All of the project outputs are now available at http://ccfil.pbworks.com/w/page/42119030/project%20reports. There are four documents in all: the curriculum itself; a report on the expert consultation process and outcomes; a paper exploring the theoretical background; and an executive summary. If you have time to take a look,
> we would be very grateful for any comments or feedback on any aspect of the research. We hope that the curriculum is both flexible enough to complement existing provision and to evolve with use, so it would be very helpful to know if there are aspects that would particularly benefit from further work, or aspects that you feel won't work at all in their current state!
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> With best wishes,
> Emma.
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> Dr. Emma Coonan, M.Sc.
> Research Skills& Development Librarian
> Cambridge University Library
> Tel. 01223-747457
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> www.lib.cam.ac.uk/courses
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> (Steven Wright)
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