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Marry Christmas and a happy and succesfull 2013.

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY SURVEY (IMILS) Final Report

The final report is available now available here and in IMILS.PDF and IMILS.PUB format at albertkb.nl/imils.html).
Reactions and comments are welcome

Information Literacy Efforts Benchmarks, 2013

Primary Research Group has published Information Literacy Efforts Benchmarks, 2013 Edition, ISBN 157440-14-5

The 115 page study presents data from 60 colleges and universities about their academic library and institutional information literacy efforts.  The study helps librarians and others to answer questions such as:  What are staffing and staff time use trends in information literacy? How many more, or fewer students, will take information literacy oriented classes and sessions this year as compared to last year?  What software packages are favored for producing info literacy tutorials? How do instructors rate the information literacy skills of their students, before an after training? What is the role of information literacy testing? What about trends in information literacy assistance to faculty?  What is the role of information literacy presentations at student orientations? What is the relationship like between library information literacy faculty and key academic departments? What percentage of colleges have formal information literacy requirements and what are these requirements? This is just a small sample of topic coverage.

Just a few of the study’s many findings are that:

•       41.67% of college libraries in the sample participate in some kind of orientation or information literacy training class designed especially for online or distance learning students.

•       Just 5% of survey participants feel that upper college administrators consider information literacy a high priority.

•       29.4% of four year colleges in the sample use student standardized test results to assess the performance results of information literacy instructors.

•       12.5% of community colleges in the sample require an information literacy exam for graduation.

•       A third of the research universities in the sample have ever administered a test to assess student capacity to use the online library catalog.

•       Nearly two thirds of librarians sampled consider their students to be very unskilled in the use of eBook collections.

•       About 39% of colleges in the sample with less than 2,500 students enrolled offer librarians faculty status.

•       For research universities, library sessions in student orientation last a mean of only 12 minutes.

•       25% of the private colleges in the sample plan to increase their investment over the next three years in equipment and space used for information literacy efforts.

Data in the report is broken out by size and types of college, by enrollment level and by number of information literacy classes or sessions given.  A pdf version of the study is currently available from Primary Research Group Inc.  For further information view our website a www.PrimaryResearch.com.

Thanks to Karen Bonanno : SOS for Information Literacy .. a virtual idea factory for teaching information literacy skills  http://www.informationliteracy.org

Library instruction and information literacy 2011

I copy a message from Nancy

Nancy Graham	5:33 am (1 day ago)
to LIS-INFOLITERA.

Dear all

I just saw this in the latest issue of Reference Services Review:

Anna Marie Johnson, Claudene Sproles, Robert Detmering, Jessica English, (2012),"Library instruction and

information literacy 2011", Reference Services Review, Vol. 40 Iss: 4 pp. 601 – 703

It’s a useful bibliography of the latest articles on information literacy instruction with a short summary of each article.  Many of them look to be full of really practical advice on innovative teaching techniques etc.

All the best,

Nancy

Nancy Graham
Subject Advisor (Medicine)
Library Services
Academic Services
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT

Tel: +44 (0) 121 414 3138

N.B. Please note that I do not work on Fridays. Medicine is covered by Sarah Pittaway (s.l.pittaway@bham.ac.uk) on Fridays.

n.graham.1@bham.ac.uk

https://intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/library

Publication

I quote from http://iite.unesco.org/publications/3214705/

UNESCO has been actively involved in developing foundations for media and information literacy to assist Member States in pursuing the achievement of the objectives of the Grünwald Declaration (1982), the Alexandria Declaration (2005) and the UNESCO Paris Agenda (2007) related to MIL.

The UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education commissioned this Handbook, which is intended to become a useful tool that would equip teacher training institutions and facilitate teaching media and information literacy in teacher training, to the Finnish Society on Media Education. This Handbook should help teachers to enhance their media and information literacy and encourage them to take up media education in the classroom. The main target group is teachers of secondary schools who are either in training or in service. The Handbook provides teachers with basic knowledge on media and information literacy, and the way these skills can be taught.

The Finnish Society on Media Education (www.mediaeducation.fi – FSME), founded in 2005 by Finnish researchers and practitioners in media education, is an association operating nation-wide in two main languages (Finnish and Swedish). The goal of FSME activities is to support and develop the field of research and practices concerning media education, contribute to the public debate and provide opportunities to share media educational experiences online and offline.

You can download the publication from 

http://iite.unesco.org/publications/3214705/

CALL FOR PROPOSALS Singapore 2013

WORLD LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CONGRESS:

79^th IFLA General Conference and Council: Future libraries: Infinite Possibilities

Singapore, August 17-23, 2013

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Programme: Intergenerational Literacies: textoótechno

The IFLA Literacy and Reading and Information Literacy Sections are seeking proposals for  a joint programme to be held at the IFLA Conference in Singapore in August 2013.

The challenge of new information and learning landscape can lead to all sorts of information gaps. One of them is a gap between texto and techno generations which can cause intergenerational isolation and separation. The program will showcase innovative and effective library programmes that intend to bridge this gap.

Proposals are requested for as many as ten tabletop presentations which will be given simultaneously. After an opening plenary keynote address, audience members will rotate to three different fifteen-minute presentations of their choice.  Presenters will therefore be asked to repeat their presentation three times for three different sets of people. 

Proposals chosen for presentation will be specific about how libraries and/or associations have tackled issues related to texto and techno literacies in their particular setting, thus developing intergenerational literacies, dialogue, digital inclusion and social cohesion. They should be grounded in theory, research, and/or practical applications.  Because these projects will be presented in an informal, small group setting, speakers should plan some visual accompaniment such as a poster that can be set up on the table.  Presenters may also want to bring brochures or flyers to hand out.  People submitting successful proposals will be asked to write a brief paper summarizing their library programme or project  for publication in the IFLA Proceedings.  All chosen presenters will be listed in the official Conference programme.

Proposals in English are required, and should provide the following information:

            Name and institution of speaker(s)

            Brief biographical information

            Proposal title

            Brief (300 to 500 word) description of project and presentation format

            Language of presentation

Proposals should be sent to Elena Corradini (Secretary of the Literacy and Reading Section) at ecorradini67@gmail.com by November 30, 2012. Please indicate "IFLA Proposal WLIC 2013" on the subject line. Finalists will be notified by December 15, 2012, and will be expected to submit final versions of their papers in one of the official IFLA languages by May 15, 2013.

For more information, please contact Leikny Haga Indergaard (Chair of Literacy and Reading Section) at: Leikny.Indergaard@bergen.kommune.no   

Please note that it is the speakers’ responsibility to find funding for their participation.

MIL Conference in Moscow

Details on the MIL Conference in Moscow June 2008 are now available on the UNESCO website MIL Moscow 2008 A lot of nice pictures of presenters and more;

Key speakers

Theme 1 - Theoretical and conceptual aspects: Conceptualization withing Knowledge Societies Presentations theme 1 

Theme 2 - Practical and empirical aspects: Mainstreaming, application and advocacy Presentations 2 

E-Discussion

From 4-6 September an e-discussion ‘Conceptions of Information Literacy in an International Context’ will be held.

Some expert participants are invited to share their initial thoughts on the three topics, but everyone's contributions will make this discussion valuable.

Each of the 3 days will focus on a different area of information literacy. The discussion threads for the 3 days are as follows:

    

o    Day 1: What is information literacy? 

    

o    Day 2: What is the link between information literacy and research skills?

    

o    Day 3: What are the effective tools and approaches used in information literacy?

For details see http://community.eldis.org/.5b11be60

Poster

Although the concept of Information Literacy was born in a business environment (Zurkowski 1974) it became mainly the domain of librarians in an educational environment. At IFLA 2012 in Helsinki there was a poster presentation on an interesting project in a Brasilian petrol company by Marilda M. Coelho, Maria I. Cabral da Franca and Tatiana N.Cosmo. Contact: marilda2601@gmail.com 
 If you want a full size image of the poster mail me at albertkb@gmail.com

Call for Proposals IFLA 2013 Singapore

The message here was premature ..... The right version will be published in due time.

My appologies ....

Presentations Tampere

The presentations of the Satellite Conference in Tampere are now online: http://iflasatellitetampere2012.wordpress.com/programme/

IFLA Helsinki

Before the formal start of IFLA 2012 in Helsinki the sessions of the Standard Committees take place. Our session was very well attended. Nearly all members were there and quite some ‘observers’. The agenda was published here earlier.

Evgeny Kuzmin (Chairman of IFAP Council) stressed the good relations of IFAP with the IL Section and memorized the communal activities, which culminated into the IFLA MIL recommendations and the Moscou Declaration. He expressed his wish to continue our work together.

If you want to follow the conference klik here on IFLA Express.

I will only report on the items that are relevant for the Section

Day 2 Satellite Tampere

The second day of the conference started with an inspiring keynote by Carol Kuhlthau; ‘Facillitating Learning Through Guided Inquiry’ . And was followed by Sessions and Workshops. Papers will be published in the conference proceedings. 

The local committee did a great job.

At the end of the day quite some attendants went on to Helsinki for IFLA 2012.

Day 1 Satellite Tampere

On the first full day of the satellite after the welcome address from the Vice Rector there was the ‘Elizabeth Stone Memorial Lecture given by Prof Kirsti Lonka (University of Helsinki) and 24 presentations ( parallel in 4 sessions), a poster presentation session and 4 workshop …

So there was a lot to choose and to enjoy.

The workshop by Andrew Whitworth (University of Manchester) is already online: 
'From information literacy to informed learning professional, development for a learning organization'

The day ended with a choice between a tour to one of four libraries or a visit to the School of Information Science of Tampere University.

Well, the day was not really over then, because there was a wonderful Conference Dinner afterwards.

Start of Satellite Tampere

Today the Tampare Satellite ‘The Road to Information Litercay: Librarians as Facilitators of Learning’ (http://iflasatellitetampere2012.wordpress.com/) started with a sightseeing tour (1,5 hour by bus) of Tampere (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampere).  Very interesting was the Kavleva Church.  http://www.tampereenseurakunnat.fi/kirkko_tampereella/in_english/churches#Kalevachurch. High as a cathedral but nothing on walls https://www.google.com/search?num=10&hl=nl&site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1024&bih=475&q=Kaleva+Church&oq=Kaleva+Church&gs_l=img.12...2295.9191.0.11557.13.13.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1ac.lJxEOj8SyJ4.

Then the welcome and networking session. 120 persons subscribed for the Satellite!!!!!!

Surprise: In the conference bag was a copy of the conference proceedings.  

Roisin Gwyer, Ruth Stubbings, and Graham Walton (Eds.)

The Road to Information Litercay: Librarians as Facilitators of Learning’

It’s IFLA Publications 157 … not even on the IFLA website.

The day ended with a City of Tampere reception at the Old City Hall. The building has a very beautiful interior. Very nice snacks ......

Tomorrow starts the real work.

Project Information Literacy seeks volunteers

The USA's Project Information Literacy (PIL) is seeking further volunteer colleges and universities with calls to participate in forthcoming PIL research studies. In autumn they will begin "a year-long investigation of first-time freshmen in US colleges and universities" I think you have to be located in the USA. The PIL project does the actual research, only some time acting as liaison person is required.
http://projectinfolit.org/volunteer/volsample.asp

The The IFLA Web Team developped 3 nice logos to be used by the bloggers

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IL Helsinki Activities

IL section activities in Helsinki

a.       Conference programme session 93 (Monday 13 August, 09:30 - 12:45, Room: Session Room 2

Information literacy meets E-learning: let’s talk about interconnections and outcomes — Information Literacy with E-learning Special Interest Group

b.      UNESCO open session 96 (Monday 13 August, 11:00 - 12:45 | Room: Session Room 5)

c.       SC meeting II (Tue 14 August, 11:30-13:00, room 206)

d.      Division Leadership brief (Sat 13 August, 08:00-09:30, room 201)

e.       Division leadership forum (Sun 12 August, 08.30-10:00, room 204-205)

f.       Officers training session (14 or 15 August, 13:45-15:45, room 6)

g.      Information Coordinators/Web-editors meetings (14 or 15 August, 11:45-12:45, room 306)

h.      Section lunch/dinner

Satellites

There are two satellites connected if IFLA Helsinki congress:

Riga ‘Information for Civic Literacy’

http://www.ifla.org/en/events/ifla-2012-satellite-conference-in-riga

Tampere ‘The Road to Information Literacy: Librarians as Facilitators of Learning’

http://www.ifla.org/en/events/satellite-meeting-in-tampere-finland

The Moscow Declaration on Media and Information Literacy

You'll find news on the The Moscow Declaration on Media and Information Literacy on the front page of http://www.ifla.org/. It links to http://www.ifla.org/en/news/just-released-the-moscow-declaration-on-media-and-information-literacy and and report, presentations and a lot of pictures at http://ifapcom.ru/en/news/1344

Information literacy paper wins Emerald Literati Highly Commended Award

Dr Geoff Walton's “A longitudinal study of changes in learners' cognitive states during and following an information literacy teaching intervention”published in Journal of Documentation has been chosen as aHighly Commended Award Winner at the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2012. The paper was chosen because “it was one of the most impressive pieces of work the team has seen throughout 2011”.

The paper will be freely available for three months and if you are interested the paper can be downloaded from:

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?show=abstract&articleid=1921932

New platform

A new platform for Informaiton Literacy http://community.eldis.org/.59e9ac6e/
 ... at the same time: another webpage to read ...... too many?

New editor Journal of Information Literacy

The CSG Information Literacy Group are pleased to announce the appointment of a new Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Information Literacy, Dr Jane Secker.  Jane was a founder member of the LILAC conference, and as conference officer for the group she was responsible for devising the academic programme for the past 8 years.  She has also been a member of the JIL editorial board since the Journal was founded and has a considerable publication record.  Jane is currently the Copyright and Digital Literacy Advisor at LSE’s Centre for Learning Technology.  She recently managed the JISC funded DELILA project and has a PhD from Aberystwyth University.

http://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/JIL

LILAC presentations online

The CILIP CSG Information Literacy Group are delighted to announce that the papers from LILAC 2012 are now available athttp://t.co/7SgtCvl9


Ruth Stubbings
Head of Academic Services
Loughborough University Library

Tel: 01509 222345

Declaración de La Habana: ALFIN desde Iberoamérica (2012)

Declaración de La Habana. 15 ACCIONES de ALFIN desde Iberoamérica (2012)
15 ACCIONES de ALFIN… …por un trabajo colaborativo y de generación de redes para el crecimiento de la alfabetización informacional en el contexto de los países iberoamericanos
http://www.alfared.org/blog/informaci-n-general/1382

Registration Satellite Tamapere

IFLA Women Information and Libraries Satellite Conference to the World Library and Information Congress: 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly,Tampere, Finland, 2012

IFLA Satellite Conference Online Registration Now Open!

The Conference Registration fee is EUR 100. This fee includes the scientific programme on Thursday and Friday, a sightseeing tour by bus and a welcome reception in the Old City Hall on Wednesday, conference dinner on Thursday, coffee/tea and lunch on Thursday and Friday, and a guided visit to Tampere City Library on Friday afternoon.

Payment can be made by bank transfer or credit card (Visa/VisaElectron, MasterCard). Cheques are not be accepted.

The registration deadline is Sunday 8^th July 2012

To register click here.

IL Logo +

The IL Logo with languages has now 46 variations. You'll find the most updated one at http://www.ifla.org/en/information-literacy/projects.
If you are missing a variation (and there are still a lot languages missing)

Spoken

According to SIL International, there are over 6,900 spoken languages, as cataloged and described in the book Languages of the World (ISBN 0883128152). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_languages

But I think they won't all fit into my version of the logo

Further http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers

Jorum

At Jorum I found a wealth of recources ..... Jorum: Information Literacy

InfoLit Logo

The newset version of the IL Logo with languages is now online .... It has 40 variations. See http://www.ifla.org/en/information-literacy/projects

Infographic: Information Literacy Issues

Interesting information on http://content.easybib.com/2012/04/10/infographic-information-literacy-issues/
57,1 % One-shot instruction sessions ...........
There is still a lot of work to be done.

Augmented Reality

'Augmented Reality': 'Google Project Glass'. Do we have to become 'Augmented Reality Literate'?

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com.br/2012/04/googles-project-glass.html

https://plus.google.com/111626127367496192147/posts

Information Literacy on Bookfinder

On Bookfinder en.bookfi.org/ I found free downloadable relevant publications on information literacy en.bookfi.org/s/?q=Information+Literacy&t=0  

New IFLA Media and Information Literacy Recommendations

In cooperation with UNESCO's Information for All Programme (IFAP), the IFLA Information Literacy Section drafted new Media and Information Literacy Recommendations.

In December 2011 these recommendations were formily endorsed by the IFLA Governing Board and are now available in 6 languages. See Media and Information Literacy Recommendations

The recommendations will also be a topic at the international conference of 'Media and Information Literacy for Knowledge Societies' on 24-28 June, 2012, in Moscow, Russia.

Empatic Information Competences

An interesting site Empatic Information Competences http://empat-ic.eu/eng

The Credo Reference Digital Award for Information Literacy

The CILIP CSG Information Literacy Group is very pleased to announce an exciting new award for innovation in digital resources for Information Literacy generously sponsored by Credo Reference.  This annual award will recognise an individual librarian or group of librarians who develop the best new digital resource for promoting information literacy.

For full details on the nomination process, see http://lilacconference.com/WP/awards/credo-reference-award-for-il/

New Practical PIL page

"The new Practical PIL page: How are PIL findings informing
librarians' day to day work? What new sites, sources, and materials
have librarians developed, based on PIL findings, so they can reach
out in new ways to students, faculty, and administrators? From
community colleges to four-year public and private institutions,
Practical PIL is a new page on the PIL site, featuring concrete
examples and links to outreach projects from different campuses across
the US."

Practical PIL page URL:

http://projectinfolit.org/practical/