Information Literacy - Education

The next online online blog-comment information literacy Journal Club meeting takes place at 8-9 pm UK time on Wednesday 13th March 2013

This weekend we finally finished the book of this title which is being published late this year by Facet. Emma and I have been working hard but we are particularly grateful to the 11 contributors who have written a chapter on the ANCIL strands. Emma has also written a chapter in addition! Many thanks to: Sarah Pavey, Moira Bent, Clare McCluskey, Isla Kuhn, Libby Tilley, Andy Priestner, Lyn Parker, Helen Webster, Geoff Walton and Jamie Cleland. Katy Wrathall has also written the Afterward. What an achievement and work will start room on planning the launch party! As if this is not enough Emma and I are speaking at CILIP on Thursday at the executive briefing on information literacy.

"I’m really excited to report that we have just started a project to carry out an audit at LSE of our learning support provision based on ANCIL. Even more exciting is that Katy Wrathall will be acting as a consultant on the project, using her experiences of auditing at York St Johns and University of Worcester during her Arcadia Fellowship. You can read more about Katy’s earlier work on the Implementing ANCIL wiki, where there are two case studies."

Blog report from the JISC RSC NW event: "Want your learners to be more independent? To think more critically?" by the Welsh Information Literacy Project.

"At the RSC North West ‘Want your learners to be more independent?’ event I felt I had my eyes well and truly opened to the benefits of, and dare I say it, the necessity of embedding information literacy skills into learning provision – whatever form that provision that may take."

..." I think this training day was the first opportunity I’ve had to really THINK about Information Literacy and make meaningful connections to help categorise or attempt to lasso all the different approaches in order to spread the word and support our advocacy activities. I feel it’s important to re-visit this question with a new WILP project team and also as we are approaching lots of new stakeholders who are encountering this for the first time."

I returned to work fired up after the AldinHE and Lilac conferences and got stuck into trying to create a simple questionnaire for LSE staff based on the ANCIL strands. It was aimed at staff who might not have time to meet up for am interview. However the questions don’t translate very well into survey format as one in particular looked like a hugely off putting long list.

So building on the handouts we created for the conferences, I have tried to describe each strand of the curriculum concisely to find out if teachers feel they cover aspects in their own teaching either formally or informally, if they refer students elsewhere and if it is embedded in their curriculum or as a standalone session.