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