Thanks to Hazel Edmunds of http://www.adsetsinformationweblog. blogspot.com/ She pointed me to Kathryn Greenhill's blog, who in turn was highlighting the work of people at the University of Aukland. Kathryn made a video of Liz Wilkinson talking about a tutorial on how to use the Voyager catalogue, Te Punga. Liz Wilkinson talks about the way in ...

The discussions continue regularly on Infolit iSchool in Second Life (SL), the virtual world. Most recently, Robin Ashford (a librarian from the USA, Robin Mochi in SL) led a discussion about the Academic librarian in Second Life. The picture show the assembled people, mainly from the UK and USA. She was speaking, and other people were using text ...

Last week we had an information literacy week here at Sheffield University. It was organised by the Information Literacy Network, which consists of people from my Department (Information Studies), the library, and the Centre for Inquiry Based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences. Part of the week involved us blogging about the week and about ...

A further post on the conference, L'education à la culture informationnelle [Education for/in information culture], held in l’Université Charles de Gaulle Lille3, Lille, France October 16-18 (http://ertecolloque.wordpress.com/) In addition to the keynote, I was co-author on a research based paper. This was presented in English, but is presented on ...

Here are my notes on the two other presentations in the same session as our research presentation at conference, L'education à la culture informationnelle [Education for/in information culture], held in Lille, France October 16-18 (as mentioned in the previous post). 1) David Del Testa (a US academic/historian) et Abby Clobridge (Librarian): ...

The LearnHigher website has identified 20 areas to do with learning in higher and further education, and for each area has collected some resources, including their own projects . LearnHigher is an outcome of a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. One of the areas is Information Literacy, and the coordinator is Bob Glass, Department of ...

The presentations from the IFLA Health and Biosciences Libraries Section Satellite Session: Libraries without borders: Navigating towards global understanding at the World Library and Information Congress: in Canada in August are online. They include: Development of an information skills training delivered to staff of the Centre of Health and ...

Thanks again to Vivienne Bernath. She emailed me about Acknowledgement: ''a set of resources to support university staff to undertake continuing professional development about academic honesty and integrity issues, especially issues of originality and plagiarism'' from Monash University, ...

Eduserv just launched an online Copyright tool kit. It includes information about copyright (with a UK focus) plus exercises to work through, testing out knowledge. It is aimed at lecturers, librarians, technicians or anyone else involved in the process (i.e. the providers of course material, rather than the learners - though it could also be ...

This presentation, Developing Student Information Literacy: Influences of disciplinary contexts and implications for library practice was given by Sheila Webber (me), Stuart Boon and Bill Johnston at the Creating Knowledge V conference, Turku, Finland, on 21st August 2008. It summarises research into the conceptions of information literacy, and of ...