Yesterday I was invited to attend an IL day at Sheffield University, the special guest for the day being Christine Bruce from QUT. Christine came to the UK to do a keynote speech at the LILAC conference and is coming up to the NE today so that she can run a workshop in Newcastle on monday. I’m planning to get some advice on my own project this weekend, in between doing some quick sightseeing around the region.
The meeting in Sheffield was excellent – in the morning we had an informal seminar in which Christine addressed some presubmitted questions around topics such as IL in the workplace, IL and Web 2.0, IL and threshold concepts. Lots of things to think about! In the afternoon she explained what the research group at QUT are working on and we also heard from Sheila Webber and Bill Johnston on their research into academic conceptions of IL in chemistry and english academics.

Durham riverbanks

Last monday to wednesday I went to the LILAC conference in Manchester. There were so many interesting talks – I’m going to pick a different one each day to write about. Today I’ll choose the first one I attended, which was a talk by Sheila Webber about writing for publication. Sheila made us think about why we wanted to write and what we thought the barriers might be (eg encouragement by management!) I found it very helpful Sheila has started a wiki for anyone who wants to follow this up

Guilderton Library WA – is this the smallest library in the world?

I have just discovered Peter Godwin’s blog.
This is what he says it’s about: How does Web 2.0 affect our delivery of Information Literacy? How do librarians cope with the Google generation and what does this mean for Information Literacy? This site will be a sounding board for us to exchange our views and good practice!
Peter highlights some interesting info from other blogs and some useful tips too.

Durham, near Elvet Bridge (AJB)

At the ICS event I mentioned a few posts ago, Chris Powis reminded us about his InfoTeach wiki. Chris set up the wiki for his NTF project and wants it to develop into a collaborative resource for everyone involved in teaching information literacy. However, he’s disappointed by how few people are contributing. I’m feeling guilty as I haven’t added much myself. If you read this, click on the link and help Chris by adding some content. Don’t worry about not being an expert – we can all learn from each other!

Rooftops in Durham. (AJ Bent)