Sheffield IL seminar

On 14th March I attended a seminar at the Sheffield Centre for Information Literacy Research.
The first talk, given by Sheila Corrall, described her research into strategic engagement with IL. Sheila surveyed 114 universities in the UK and found evidence of strategic commitment in 75 cases, limiting her survey to documents in the public domain accessible from institutional websites. She found IL was mentioned in institutional strategies for information, student skills, and learning and teaching, but was less common in graduate attributes and research strategy documents. Sheila is developing an evaluation framework to model her findings.


Pippin again

http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/is/cilr/index.html

Study Leave again

I have neglected the blog a little bit lately, as I’ve been too busy being a liaison librarian to think about my NTF project. However, I shall be on study leave again after Easter, so hopefully will have more time to blog. I hope there are still a few people out there reading the blog – if so, do send me an email!

Book reviews

I’ve mentioned a few times that our book on Library Support for research was publshed last year. Recently there have been quite a few positive reviews – a big relief to the three authors!
You can read the IWR review here
and another in the The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Volume 34, Issue 2, March 2008, Page 170