Literacy Information

The latest 2 issues of Reference Services Review (a priced publication) include the following:
Volume 43 issue 1
- Teaching “format as a process” in an era of Web-scale discovery by Kevin Patrick Seeber (pp. 19 - 30)
- Badge it!: A collaborative learning outcomes based approach to integrating information literacy badges within disciplinary curriculum by Emily Ford , Betty Izumi , Jost Lottes , Dawn Richardson (pp. 31 - 44)
- Learning information literacy through drawing by David James Brier , Vickery Kaye Lebbin (pp. 45 - 67)
- One-shot Wikipedia: an edit-sprint toward information literacy by John Thomas Oliver (pp. 81 - 97)
- Flashlight: using Bizup’s BEAM to illuminate the rhetoric of research by Kate Rubick (pp. 98 - 111)
- Leveraging adult learning theory with online tutorials by Rebecca Halpern , Chimene Tucker (pp. 112 - 124)
- Integrating the thematic approach into information literacy courses by Elizabeth Price , Rebecca Richardson (pp. 125 - 136)
- Piloting a blended model for sustainable IL programming by Jody Nelson , Joan Morrison , Lindsey Whitson (pp. 137 - 151)
Volume 44 issue 2 (at time of writing this was early publication, so no page numbers)
- Learning from Degree-Seeking Older Adult Students in a University Library by Mary C. Aagard , Marilia Y. Antunez , Jaime N. Sand
- Evaluation of Sources: A New Sustainable Approach by Sharon Radcliff , Elise Y. Wong
- Using Interviews to Improve Relationships with Library Partners: A Case Study by Bridget Farrell
- Situated Information Literacy: History Instruction at a High School Early College by Meghann Walk
- Situating Information Literacy in the Disciplines: A Practical and Systematic Approach for Academic Librarians by Robert Farrell , William Badke
Go to http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/rsr
Photo by Sheila Webber: St Georges Church, Sheffield University: there are 3 peregrine falcons in this picture and since the photo isn't very sharp I have put red "x"s above them (a chick in the nest platform and one just-fledged chick on the ledge above the clock, and a parent bird sitting at the side). Click photo for full size. 2 June 2015

Ithaca College Library has produced a short tutorial, Evaluating Resources, in which the ACCORD checklist is introduced (that's Agenda, Credentials, Citations, Oversight, Relevance, Date) and then you are asked to evaluate a few resources (on the theme of red wine and health) http://ithacalibrary.com/research/eval_tut/
Photo by Sheila Webber: red grapes.

The latest issue (online early publication) of the (subscription-only) Journal of Documentation (volume 71 issue 3) includes an article by my colleague Dr Peter Stordy which provides an analysis of various kinds of literacy using a matrix:
Taxonomy of Literacies by Peter Howard Stordy
There is also a research article on a less usual topic: Information Literacies of Self-Identified Sadomasochists: An Ethnographic Case Study by J. Tuomas Harviainen
and one on a perenially interesting theme: As simple as that?: Tween credibility assessment in a complex online world by Mega Subramaniam , Natalie Greene Taylor , Beth St. Jean , Rebecca Follman , Christie Kodama, Dana Casciotti
Abstracts at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/jd/71/3
I haven't covered JDoc for a while, so I'll also pick some articles from the last couple of issues
Koltay, T. (2015) Data literacy: in search of a name and identity. Journal of Documentation, 71(2), 401 - 415. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/jd/71/2
Kostagiolas, P. et al (2015) Music, musicians and information seeking behaviour: A case study on a community concert band. Journal of Documentation, 71(1), 3-24.
Hampson Lundh, A., Francke, H. and Sundin, O. (2015) To assess and be assessed: Upper secondary school students’ narratives of credibility judgements. Journal of Documentation, 71(1), 80-95.
Savolainen, R. (2015) The interplay of affective and cognitive factors in information seeking and use: Comparing Kuhlthau’s and Nahl’s models. Journal of Documentation, 71(1), 175 - 197. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/jd/71/1
Photo by Sheila Webber: Cherry Blossom, April 2015

A link from a JISC conference (that I will blog about in a minute!): a free booklet summarising legal and ethical issues around learning analytics, published last November. They are in the process of drafting an actual code of practice (there should be a consultation period on it shortly).
Sclater, N. (2014)  Code of practice for learning analytics: A literature review of the ethical and legal issues.JISC. http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/5661/1/Learning_Analytics_A-_Literature_Review.pdf

In a blog post from January, Sclater outlines a taxonomy of the legal and ethical issues: http://analytics.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2015/01/30/a-taxonomy-of-the-ethical-and-legal-issues-of-learning-analytics-v0-1/

There is a Storify of the session on this topic at JISC's digifest15 on 9 March
Photo taken by Sheila Webber in the virtual world, Second Life, March 2015

The latest issue of the open access journal IFLA Journal (volume 40 issue 4, 2014) has been published. Articles include:
- Information literacy in Zanzibar universities: Current situation and the way forward by Abbas Mohamed Omar, Haji Ali Haji and Khamis Hamad Mwitumbe
- Information evaluation and the individual’s cognitive state: Some insights from a study of British teenaged users by Andrew K. Shenton, Alison J. Pickard and Andrew Johnson
http://www.ifla.org/node/9290
Photo by Sheila Webber: Lizzie in Lady Dinah's Cat Emporium, December 2014

A new Ofcom (the UK communications watchdog organisation) report was published in October, with a much statistical data about children's use of devices, the internet etc. Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report 2014. As usual, they are drawing on a relatively robust data set, including 1,660 interviews carried out with parents in May/June 2014. Just snatching some headlines from the executive summary "There has been a significant increase in access to, ownership of and use of tablet computers by children of all ages. In contrast, the incidence of TVs and games consoles in the bedroom is declining, while smartphone ownership remains steady. ... 12-15s are twice as likely to say they would miss their mobile phone than the TV, say they spend more time going online than watching television in a typical week, and say they prefer to socialise online rather than watch TV. In contrast, younger children still prefer TV to any other device, and spend more time in a typical week watching TV than doing any other media activity. ... Gender differences are evident from an early age. Differences include a preference for gaming among boys and for communicating online among girls. Parents also treat boys and girls differently, monitoring some aspects of girls’ online activity more closely than boys’" and particularly interesting for this blog "Older children are making judgements about the truthfulness of online content, including search engine results and how accurately people present themselves online." Extracting a paragraph from the section that goes into this in more detail "The number of 12-15s who believe that all of the information they see on websites used for school work or homework is true almost halved between 2013 and 2014: from 30% to 16%. Similarly, there was a two-fold increase in the number of children aged 12-15 who say that only some of the information is true (29% in 2014 vs. 12% in 2013). These findings indicate an increase in critical awareness for this age group." (p90)
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-research/other/research-publications/childrens/children-parents-oct-14/
Photo by Sheila Webber: Autumn park, November 2014