Today I was invited to talk to a meeting of the Durham School Librarians about information literacy and my NTF project. Eleven people attended and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting them all. I think we agreed that the info lit challenges faced by school librarians are very similar to those faced by university librarians – issues about whose responsibility it is, needing to have an institutional commitment and especially the issue of time. With such a structured curriculum there was a general feeling that teachers are inclined to spoon feed info to students to get good grades and that changing learning habits gets a low priority. Several members of the group are keen to assist with running my survey in their schools, which is great, as it will give me a much broader based set of data. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today I was invited to talk to a meeting of the Durham School Librarians about information literacy and my NTF project. Eleven people attended and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting them all. I think we agreed that the info lit challenges … Continue reading