Monthly Archives: August 2008

IL for administrators

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This ACRL webpage caught my attention at the same time as an article by Mark Hepworth and Marian Smith entitled “Workplace information literacy for administrative staff in HE” published in the Australian Library Journal 2008 57(3) 212-236. I haven’t had time to read Mark and Marion’s article yet, but I note that it is making comparisons with the JISC i-skills model. IL for admin, technical and secretarial staff in HE is an area which I am currently thinking about, as I am in the process of setting up some workshops for the admin staff in the Faculty with which I liaise, probably starting with something very practical, like an EndNote workshop, but hopefully also covering some broader IL skills and concepts. I’d be interested to know if any other libraries are developing anything similar or have experienced an increased demand for this type of help.


Coypu in the Carmargue, France

The adventures of LASSIE: libraries, social software and distance learners

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I’ve just come across Jane Secker’s article in Serials 21(2) July 2008 p112-115. To quote from her abstract: This paper provides an overview of the University of London’s Libraries and Social Software in Education (LASSIE) Project, led by LSE and the Institute of Education. The project explored whether social software, or Web 2.0 technologies, could enhance distance learners’ experience of libraries. LASSIE also undertook five case-studies to explore in more detail: social software and reading lists; social bookmarking and libraries; podcasting and information literacy; blogging; and Facebook and libraries. It concluded that social software might be best utilized to enhance information literacy support for distance learners.


Water jousting, Meze, France

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New Directions for Teaching and Learning

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New Directions for Teaching and Learning v114, 2008 is a themed issue around Information Literacy. It’s great to see a mainstream T&L journal according the issue this degree of importance, the editorial includes comments such as ” information literacy can be viewed as a call to another approach to content and teaching practice”, “there needs to be a shift towards learning how to be information literate – learning how to question, understanding how to evaluate…..in other words, turning information into knowledge”
Articles include:
Reforming the undergraduate experience
Librarians as agents of change: Working with curriculum committees using change agency theory
Global educational goals, technology, and information literacy in higher education
Information literacy and its relationship to cognitive development and reflective judgment
Information literacy and first-year students
Effective librarian and discipline faculty collaboration models for integrating information literacy into the fabric of an academic institution
Dynamic purposeful learning in information literacy
College student engagement surveys: Implications for information literacy.


Kingston University Library new extension (photo from Pippa Jones from Leeds)

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