Dear All,

 

Apologies for cross posting.

 

The latest issue of the Journal of Information Literacy (the journal of the CILIP CSG Information Literacy group) has just been published! 

The contents of the Journal of Information Literacy vol 6(1) include:

 

 

Articles

The experiences of Chinese PhD students in Australia: Encountering information literacy challenges

 

Jinghe Han

 

Business information literacy teaching at different academic levels: an exploration of skills and implications for instructional design

Mariela Gunn, Cynthia E. Miree

 

Active and reflective learning initiatives to improve web searching skills of business students

Alison Lahlafi, Diane Rushton, Erica Stretton

 

Articles from LILAC

Learning Literacies through collaborative enquiry; collaborative enquiry through learning literacies

Jo Ashley, Freya Jarman, Tunde Varga-Atkins, Nedim Hassan

 

Looking to the future: Developing an academic skills strategy to ensure information literacy survives in a changing higher education world

Helen Howard

 

Creating an online tutorial to develop academic and research skills

Sara Thornes

 

Conference review

Student to LILAC Superhero - Thasya Elliott

Project report

 

Welsh Information Literacy Project : Phase 2 - Cathie Jackson

 

Book reviews

 

Flaspohler, M. R. (2012). Engaging First-Year Students in Meaningful Library Research: A practical guide for teaching faculty - Dina Koutsomichali

 

Godwin, P. and Parker, J. (eds.) (2012). Information literacy beyond library 2.0 - Elaine Andrew

 

Kaplowitz, J. R. (2012). Transforming information literacy instruction using learner-centered teaching - Cindy Gruwell

 

Walsh, J. (2011). Information literacy instruction: selecting an effective model - Katharine Reedy

 

The Journal of Information Literacy is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal. The above articles, and the journal's archive, is available at http://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/JIL/index.

 

Volume 6(2) will be published in December 2012, and will be edited by our new editor-in-chief, Dr Jane Secker.

 

We welcome your feedback on this issue

 

Best wishes

Roo