I’ve just spent a couple of days tidying up our Information Literacy web pages and Toolkit, so I thought I’d give it a mention in case anyone is interested. The Toolkit contains a range of resources, ideas and links which academic and library staff can use to help students become more information literate. They can use materials just as they are or tailor them to their own teaching style and their students’ learning needs.
Over the next month we’ll be adding a lot more resources to the toolkit, as well as some models of how it has / can be used to develop IL in the curriculum.
The Toolkit is structured around the Sconul 7 pillars model, so that it’s possible to design a programme to meet a series of standards and criteria (not as complicated as it first appears!)

Roppongi area in Tokyo (Louise’s pic again)

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/libr…nfolit/toolkit/

Today saw the official launch of the Newcastle Info Lit toolkit. The toolkit contains a variety of resources, suggestions and guidance for academic, library and educational development staff to use in order to integrate information literacy into the curriculum. Based on the SCONUL 7 pillars model, the toolkit allows staff to select basic, intermediate or advanced level activities, which may be online tutorials, Blackboard quizzes, lecture notes and slides, worksheets, discussion documents etc. There is information on meeting specific skills outcomes on module outline forms as well as how to design a whole programme with embedded information literacy.
The next stage in our project will be to evaluate the impact of the toolkit, as well as continuing to develop and add to it. We’ll be looking at attribution statements and a rating system too.
I took my camera along to the launch but was far too busy talking to manage to take any photos!
Here are some flowers from Christchurch Botanic Gardens instead!

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/il_toolkit.php

This conference had speakers inlcuding Susie Andretta, Sheila Webber, Mark Hepworth and me! I gave a paper entitled Developing a community of practice : the Newcastle Information Literacy Project. Papers have now been published – I have a couple of copies of the whole book if anyone is interested in reading any of it.

http://www.staffs.ac.uk/infolitconf/