***Apologies for cross posting***

Information Literacy Community of Practice at Staffordshire University (ILCoPSU) workshop

Wednesday 1st November 2006, 1:30 - 4:30pm
Ashley Building Centre for Professional Managenment, Stoke on Trent

Following the success of Information Literacy: Recognising the Need Conference held at Staffordshire University on the 17th of May we are pleased to announce the second of a series of workshops which aim to share good practice and discuss new ideas in IL teaching and learning within the university sector.

This will be held at the Ashley Centre for Professional Management (Rooms LT114/116), Stoke site.

The speakers for the half-day (1:30pm - 4:30pm) workshop are:

• Susie Andretta: Senior Lecturer, London Metropolitan University.
• Alison Pope: Learning and Teaching Fellow , Staffordshire University
• Miceal Barden: Dean of Business School, Staffordshire University

Susie Andretta will be talking about perceptions of information literacy.

“Reflecting on the Six Frames of Information Literacy”

Susie Andretta will introduce the Six Frames of Information Literacy, a framework devised by Bruce, Edwards and Lupton (2006) to facilitate a discussion on the findings generated by the workshop run during the Information Literacy Conference, Staffordshire University, May 17, 2006. It is the aim of this session to discuss the data generated by the May workshop, and in particular to explore the information literacy approach adopted by HE institutions reflected by the participants’ responses to the first poster. Initial analysis of this data has identified the content and competency frames as predominant in HE institutions (see Information Literacy: from whose perspective? available at http://www.ilit.org/ilresearch/indexilresearch.htm) and this will be taken as a starting point for the session to address questions such as whether the competency and content frames alone are sufficient to equip students with lifelong learning attitudes, and if not, how do we promote information literacy approaches described by the other four frames. This is in line with Bruce et al’ s claim that “We believe that the greatest value of the frames lies in their power to challenge each of us to identify our primary frame(s) and to inquire into how our professional practice might developif we were willing to adopt a different frame or a wider range of frames.”

*Bruce, C. Lupton, M. & Edwards, S. L. (2006) Six Frames for Information literacy Education: a conceptual framework for interpreting the relationships between theory and practice, in Andretta, S. (ed),Italics, 5 (1). [Online]. Available at: http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/italics/vol5iss1.htm (Accessed: 1 August, 2006). Participants are advised to read at least pages: 1 to 6 of this paper before the workshop.

Alison Pope and Miceal Barden will be discussing Information Literacy policy and practice at Staffordshire University.

Outline programme

1:30 - 2:00pm - Registration and refreshments

2:00 - 2:15pm - Introduction to the afternoon

2:15 - 3:15pm - Susie Andretta

3:15 - 3:30pm - Refreshmments, Danish pastry and networking opportunity

3:30 - 4:30pm - Alison Pope & Miceal Barden

Workshop information

Cost for the half day is £30.

Places are limited to 55.

Booking a place

Bookings for this workshop can be made online using our Information Literacy workshop booking form.

Payment options:

• Purchase Order - which enables us to raise an invoice for your institution (must include billing address/contact and what it is for, i.e. conference delegate)
• Cheque - (made out to Staffordshire University and addressed to Administration Team, Thompson Library, Stafforshire University,PO Box 664,College Road, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST4 2XS
• Debit/credit card - (via Finance in Stafford 01785 353536)

Please note we will be unable to make a refund if you cancel after 25th October.

More information

For further information please contact our Administration team: