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.