One of the outcomes of my NTF project was the concept of a personal Information Literacy Landscape through which each individual moves and which shapes how they respond to any IL interventions. I know it has since been used by a few different folks, so it seems sensible to make it more widely available. I have created a separate page on the blog (see above) which links directly to the IL Landscape map and a more detailed explanation. I welcome any comments and suggestions for improving it and if you find it helpful and make changes to it, I’d be delighted to know

On monday, I’m visiting Salford University to talk about international student support (again!). I’ll be mainly talking about the SCONUL Guidelines, but also a little bit about a new project I’m involved with. This new research, again with Karen Senior and Marie Scopes with whom I worked on the original report, will look at how we support students who are based overseas. Not the traditional distance leaner model, but more students based in overseas or satellite “campuses” of some kind. This is an area which is developing rapidly, but there doesn’t seem to have been a lot written about it so far from the library perspective. I hope our research will help plug the gap, so I’d be delighted to hear from folks who are involved in any overseas initiatives, as you may be able to contribute. For now, here is the small collection of information we have discovered so far and here are my Salford slides.

Hey, gimme some bamboo!

I’m looking forward to the inaugural meeting of the NE and Yorkshire Group on information and data handling tomorrow. I blogged about this earlier; it’s an attempt to create a group of folks who support researcher training in the areas of information and data handling and use, hopefully getting us working outside of our usual comfort groups. We have over 40 people registered, from a range of different backgrounds, which is a really great start. I’m doing a very short talk about the work we’ve been doing in SCONUL to redevelop the 7 pillars and there will also be talks from Vitae and RIN about the RDF and the links between the 2 models, but the majority of the time will be spent in developing the network and discussing how the group should work.

Pippin “helping”

Thanks to Adam for this link,  an interesting way to use and disseminate data . It’s an animation which shows the real-time behaviour of hire bikes in London on October 4th 2010, the day of a major tube strike, and the busiest day for the scheme to date.

Thought we’d have a different black and white animal for a change.

Probably the last panda pic

One of the nice things about the RIN Info Handling Group is the wide range of different folks who are involved. It was nice to meet Nicola Siminson from JORUM there last week. Nicola explained to us that JORUM are developing widgets that can be placed on websites in order to make searching for resources easier. She also drew our attention to the plagiarism tutorial  from Leeds University which received a highly commended in the JORUM Learning & Teaching Competition

Panda on a stump

Laura Molloy from the Digital Curation Centre also alerted me to a series of seminars they are running in Glasgow and Cambridge as part of the Incremental Project. This project is looking at the challenges of  short and long term electronic data management. Following on from the HATII project the University of Glasgow has implemented a digital curation training programme for its researchers based on the Digital Curation Centre

I promised Laura another panda!

I thought readers of my blog might like to have some information about the DaMSSI project, which I have a connection with because I’m a member of RIN’s Information Handling Working Group. RIN is collaborating with the Digital Curation Centre and JISC to co-fund a new Research Data Management Skills Support Initiative (