Literacy Information

There is an event at Castilleja School (California, USA) Research relevance: K12 library instruction for the 21st Century. It will be held and there are a few days left (December 15th) before the call for contributions closes. Already, speakers/facilitators will include the schools' librarians Jole Seroff and Tasha Bergson-Michelson, and Debbie Abilock and Kristin Fontichiaro. http://www.castilleja.org/page.cfm?p=942570

Librarians at Red Deer College, MacEwan University and the University of Alberta Augustana Campus collaborate on a project, the Information Literacy Assessment and Advocacy Project (ILAAP) in order "to build a robust model for promoting and assessing information literacy skills required for student success." ILAAP is "an assessment tool designed to investigate the information literacy (IL) skills of first and second-year post-secondary students. They are making the ILAAP assessment tool available to other institutions to use with first and second year undergraduate courses. Go to http://tinyurl.com/nmk35tk to express interest and go to http://ilaap.ca/invitation-to-use-the-ilaap-assessment-tool/ for more information. "Please note that depending on the level of interest, we may limit participation based on capacity, and so the tool may not be made available to all interested libraries at this time."

Last week I was invited to deliver an expert talk on information literacy(as blogged already http://www.slideshare.net/sheilawebber/webber-brno-2014) and to provide a workshop for Masters students taking an information literacy option at the information and library school, KISK, at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. It was a very enjoyable visit meeting the lively students, and staff, and also getting to know the city (which I would recommend visiting!).
This is the presentation part of the workshop I carried out with the students. In fact there is really more emphasis on thinking about library and information professionals roles in MOOCs than specifically "information literacy", but obviously developing or supporting information literacy in MOOCs are key activities for librarians. I start by talking about types of MOOC, and discuss pedagogy a little, and then provide some examples of possible LIS roles.

I was invited by KISK, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, to give a workshop to Masters students and a presentation as part of their Expert series. This is the presentation I gave on 27 November 2014. I will post my presentation for the Masters students on Monday. My abstract for my Expert talk was that I "argue that there is no need to invent a new literacy, just because people are making increasing use of digital media. Sheila outlines her perspective of a holistic information literacy that takes account of the blended information behaviour of today's citizens, sourcing information digitally, in print and through people and the environment. She draws on research in information literacy and information behaviour, including her own work."

Library A-Z launches today. The aim was " to produce a series of illustrations reflecting the wide range of positive services and experiences provided by libraries. These illustrations then formed the basis of advocacy and promotional materials including a book, greetings cards and posters." There is an illustration for each letter of the alphabet, with words and phrases starting with that letter, each relating to an aspect of library service. "Information Literacy" is included under "I". The illustrations and other materials are free to use under a Creative Commons licence. http://www.libraryatoz.org/index.php/list-z-words/
Illustrations on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/21622267@N03/sets/72157647550942568/

"I" from https://flic.kr/p/pnbVgz An illustration created for the Library A to Z project by Josh Filhol. Images released under a CC by 4.0 licence.