information literacy in my career

IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning

and

IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group

“Information Literacy in my Career”

July 26, 2016


and


“Information Literacy in my Career”

July 26, 2016

#infolit #newlibgc

Keynote and moderator:

Sheila Webber

(@sheilayoshikawa)

Sheila is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for

Information Literacy Research in the Information School,

University of Sheffield. She is a committee member of IFLA

Information Literacy Section and interim co-chair of UNESCO’s

Global Alliance of partnerships for Media and information

Literacy European Chapter. She blogs at The Information Literacy

Weblog http://information-literacy.blogspot.com.

Information Literacy in my Career

Sheila WebberInformation School, University of Sheffield, July 2016

What Information Literacy means to me

Sheila Webber 2016

SCONUL 7 Pillars of Information Literacy

http://www.sconul.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/coremodel.pdf

Quotation from UK academic (Boon et al, 2007)


Sheila Webber 2016

“Information literacy is the

adoption of appropriate

information behaviour to

identify, through whatever

channel or medium, information

well fitted to information needs,

leading to wise and ethical use

of information in society.”

Definition by:

Johnston &

Webber (2003)

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Sheila Webber, 2016


Sheila Webber 2016Quotation from Syrian school librarian (Salha, 2010)

Information Literacy in my work

British Library

Sheffield

University

circa 1997 I realise

that what I am

teaching and doing

is information

literacy!!

mists of time (1979)

now (2016)

Strathclyde

University

• Searching database for other people at Health & Safety Exec

• Teaching librarians to search biomedical databases

• Creating videotex pages on Prestel

• Creating bibliographic records that could be searched

• Writing user manuals

• Searching and presenting business information

• Helping businesspeople identify information needs

• Managing staff who select, evaluate, disseminate

• Teaching library students to search, present etc

• Develop credit-bearing IL module for Business School

• Start writing articles

• Still focus on sources and finding

• Connecting on IL internationally

• Information Literacy/academics project; IL blog

• IL as discipline

• “Web 2.0”, social media, 3DVW: new contexts for IL and IB

• PhD dissertations

• Call modules “Information Literacy”; develop pedagogy

• IL through the lifecourse

IL in my future

(Media and) Information

Literacy as a discipline to

enable life

Sheila Webber

Information School

University of Sheffield

[email protected]

Twitter: @sheilayoshikawa

http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/

http://www.slideshare.net/sheilawebber/

Photos: Sheila Webber (mostly

taken in Second Life, a

trademark of Linden Lab)

• Boon, S., Johnston, B. and Webber, S. (2007). A phenomenographic study of English faculty's conceptions of information literacy. Journal of Documentation, 63 (2), 204-228.

• Johnston, B. and Webber, S. (2003). Information literacy in higher education: a review and case study. Studies in higher education, 28 (3), 335-352.

• Salha, S. (2011). The variations and the changes in the school librarians' perspectives of information literacy. PhD Thesis, Information School, University of Sheffield. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1538/2/Salha,_Shahd.pdf

• Webber, S. and Johnston, B. (2013) Transforming IL for HE in the 21st century: a Lifelong Learning approach. in Hepworth, M. and Walton, G. (Eds.) Developing people's information capabilities fostering information literacy in educational, workplace and community contexts. Emerald. pp.15-30.

Sheila Webber 2016

References

PresenterPamela McKinney (@ischoolpam). Pamela is a Lecturer

in the Information School, University of Sheffield. Before

joining the iSchool, she was a learning developer in the

Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in the Arts and Social

Sciences, and prior to that an academic librarian at

Sheffield Hallam University.

Pam McKinney

Lecturer, University of

Sheffield Information

School

[email protected]

@ischoolpam

mailto:[email protected]

What does IL mean to me? An essential competency for everyone in their daily

lives

A vital aspect of studying and learning, particularly if

learning is inquiry led

Complex interactions between people, technology and

information are a feature of IL in the 21st century

What it means to be information literate is highly

contextual

The SCONUL

seven pillars Used extensively with academic staff in my previous role as

a learning developer

Detailed descriptions of the competencies required in the

Higher Education

Used as an analysis framework in my research e.g.

understanding the range and depth of students’ reflections

on their IL development

The student reflections revealed that their IL needs changed

over time as the project progresses – this is not currently

expressed in the model

Review of Seven Pillars model: http://bit.ly/2a1QBme

IL in my teaching I support students with annotated bibliography on

Sheila’s “Information Literacy” module

I incorporate IL development into the other modules that

I teach e.g. making sure students can search particular

resources

I support reflection for IL development with reflective

assignments

I support my dissertation students and personal tutees

with IL development

Research into IL Current participatory action research project with Sheila

and students on the distance learning “Information

Literacy” module to understand their progress towards

becoming IL educators and how we best can support

them.

Presentation from the creating knowledge conference:

http://bit.ly/2a9mzie

Pilot project to investigate the information literacy of

using apps to log diet for the purposes of weight loss

Future work Research into IL in everyday life contexts with specific

situations and groups of people.

Alison Head keynote from the Creating Knowledge viii

conference: “Getting started is the hardest part of

course research” How can we support students in this?

http://bit.ly/2allHq7

PresenterLiam Bullingham (@liamealbee). Liam is a

Liaison Librarian at the University of Sheffield.

Previous jobs included Information Adviser at

Sheffield Hallam University, Knowledge

Management Resources Assistant at DLA Piper

and Graduate Trainee Library Assistant,

Manchester Metropolitan University.

information literacy: personal view

Personal view

Aspects of the SCONUL seven pillars are highly relevant in everyday life

e.g.

evaluate: phishing scams

present: complying with copyright

These should be interpreted for each individual context

higher education

the organisation

the course

the individual

information literacy: professional view

information literacy in my future

PresenterEmily Wheeler (@heliotropia). Emily is

Learning Advisor at the University of Leeds.

Previous posts include Library Graduate Trainee

at Manchester Metropolitan University. She

runs the CILIP Yorkshire and Humberside

Member Network blog and co-organises the

LISDIS (Library and Information Science

Dissertations) conference.

What does information literacy mean to me?

■ Key part of academic life

■ Part of a wider set of skills/knowledge

■ Important outside university too

■ Model: SCONUL 7 Pillars

Information literacy and my job

■ Student workshops – “general” and embedded

■ Online learning resources

■ Finding, creating, adapting resources & information

Information literacy in the future

■ IL will always be important!

■ More work linking IL & critical thinking with current events

■ More work with younger students


and


Thank you!

#infolit #newlibgc

The Three questions

1. What does Information Literacy mean to me?

2. How information literacy fits in with my job

3. How (or whether) I see information literacy being important to me in the future, and/or where I would like to go next with IL

#infolit #newlibgc