Literacy Information

The latest issue of the open access Journal of Information Literacy has been published (volume 9, no. 1, 2015). Articles include:
- The Amazing Library Race: tracking student engagement and learning comprehension in library orientations by Katherine Boss, Katelyn Angell, Eamon Tewell
- How much do first-year undergraduate students in Norway know about information literacy? by Ellen Nierenberg, Øyvind Gjems Fjeldbu
- The impact of library information literacy classes on first year students’ searching behaviour by Torunn Skofsrud Boger, Hanne Dybvik, Anne-Lise Eng, Else Helene Norheim
- Using an information literacy curriculum map as a means of communication and accountability for stakeholders in higher education by Leslin H Charles
- Refining the definition of information literacy: the experience of contextual knowledge creation by Marc Forster
- Evidence-based instruction: assessing student work using rubrics and citation analysis to inform instructional design by Alan Carbery, Sean Leahy
There are also conference reports and book reviews
http://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/JIL/index
Photo by Sheila Webber: wild rose, Sheffield, June 2015

Volume 8, issue 2 of the open access Journal of Information Literacy has been published.
It includes:
- Fostering the integration of information literacy and journalism practice: a long-term study of journalism students by Margy Elizabeth MacMillan
- Developing a new approach to information literacy learning design by Sarah McNicol, Emily Shields
- Faculty-library collaboration: two pedagogical approaches by Karen Marie Øvern
- The value of collaboration: raising confidence and skills in information literacy with first year Initial Teacher Education students by Sarah Purcell, Rachel Barrell
- Teaching information literacy - the role of the university libraries in Germany by Fabian Franke, Wilfried Suhl-Strohmenger
- Welsh Information Literacy Project: Phase 4 2013/14 by Andrew Eynon
- InformAll - information literacy for all by Stephane Goldstein

Special Section: Information Literacy in Schools with an introduction from Ross Todd
- An examination of information literacy instruction on the information seeking skills of primary school children in Jamaica: an experiment using grade six students by Kerry-Ann Rodney-Wellington
- Practices of ambiguity: becoming "information literate" in two Norwegian schools by Margrethe B. Søvik
- Professional self-efficacy and role perception of school librarians and their impact on the development of students' information literacy: an evidence-based study by Ruth Ash-Argyle, Snunith Shoham
Go to http://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/JIL
Photo by Sheila Webber: Advent zoo, Freedom Square, Brno, Czech Republic, December 2014