Literacy Information

The latest issue of the Journal of Academic Librarianship (Volume 41, Issue 1, 2015 - priced publication) includes the following:

Student Confidence/Overconfidence in the Research Process by Valeria E. Molteni, Emily K. Chan
Promoting Academic Library Research Through the “Faculty-Member-In-Residence” Program by Brian Detlor, Vivian Lewis
Library Instruction and Themed Composition Courses: An Investigation of Factors that Impact Student Learning by Erin E. Rinto, Elisa I. Cogbill-Seiders
Applications of Mobile Social Media: WeChat Among Academic Libraries in China by Jianhua Xu, Qi Kang, Zhiqiang Song, Christopher Peter Clarke
Relationship of Library Assessment to Student Retention by Elizabeth M. Mezick
Finding the Right Notes: An Observational Study of Score and Recording Seeking Behaviors of Music Students by Kirstin Dougan
The Shift of Information Literacy Towards Research 2.0 by Tibor Koltay, Sonja Špiranec, László Z. Karvalics
Interactive Training Materials Developed by Spanish University Libraries by Marta Somoza-Fernández
Go to http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00991333
Photo by Sheila Webber: Stone stairs, Walton Hall, December 2014

A merry and information literate Christmas to all readers!
Photo by Sheila Webber: my Christmas wreath 2014

Members of New Jersey's Information Literacy committees have produced an Open Letter Regarding the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education expressing their concerns about the proposed new ACRL Information Literacy Framework. The letter includes the assertions that "The current standards should not be discarded; they should be revised to be used in tandem with the Framework." "It is not counterproductive to map the IL Standards to the IL Framework." "The Framework is a theoretical document which makes it difficult to assess outcomes." "The entire framework is filled with jargon, especially the new definition of information literacy" and "The lack of parallel structure of the frames is grammatically jarring". It is available on a Google Doc at
http://bit.ly/1CpyyjT This is a rather more vehement opposition than anything I saw during the actual consultation period, though obviously I wasn't in touch with everything written about it.
Photo by Sheila Webber: All Saints Church, Sherbourne, December 2014

This is my 3000th blog post here, and it celebrates the Latin American and Caribbean Media and Information Literacy (MIL) forum that was just held (10-11 December) in Mexico (Foro de Alfabetizacion Mediatica e Informacional en Latino America y El Caribe). The Forum establshed a Latin American and Caribbean chapter of the Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy (GAPMIL) and also made a Declaración de México on MIL (I think the final text has not yet been published).
Additionally, the Doha Centre for Media Freedom signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico’s television directorate (TV Unam) for cooperation on training and initiatives to do with MIL and media freeedom.
The (Spanish-language) website is at http://www.foroamilac.org/
There is a short video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y07oWoiZV1A and the forum has a channel here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt2blip020_D3EylacECRJQ though at the moment the main thing on it is a series of 3 videos with European media literacy experts saying why media literacy is important.
Photo by Sheila Webber: geese rising, December 2014

The i3 conference is sponsoring a place at their 2015 conference (which will be 23-26 June 2015 at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland). "Applications for this award are welcome from early career researchers and those in their first professional post. This award is to support someone who otherwise would not be able to attend the i3 Conference. The funded place includes all conference fees, university accommodation, reasonable travel costs to Aberdeen (up to a maximum of £600 for travel) and access to the social programme. If you are successful, you will be asked to write a short report for the conference website on your reasons for attending, experiences at the conference and the benefits you have taken back to your user community." The deadline is 2 February 2015. Go to the i3 website for further information http://www.rgu.ac.uk/research/conferences/i-2015
Photo by Sheila Webber: part of the breakfast spread at the Royal Ricc Hotel, Brno, November 2014

There will be a Teachmeet on 6 Feburary 2015 in Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK, 1.45-4.15 PM. "A chance for librarians from the region to meet up, share their experiences of teaching information skills and help each other out. Please bring along a success you would like to share, a resource to talk about, or an issue or problem you have encountered in your teaching with which you would like help. We will also have a short session on Flipping the Classroom in library teaching, led by Nicola Sayles." Book for this free event at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/teachmeet-free-event-tickets-14975060810. The event is organised by CILIP Academic and Research Libraries Group (ARLG) Yorkshire and Humberside division. The teachmeet will be preceded by the ARLG: Yorkshire & Humberside committee AGM at 1.15-1.30 pm: email Jennifer Rowland (J.Rowland2@bradford.ac.uk) if you wish to attend that. 
Photo by Sheila Webber: winter trees, Sheffield, 2012

The new issue (vol. 19 no. 4) of open-access journal Information research consists of a normal issue plus a conference supplement, so lots of information behaviour research and some information literacy research too.
For the regular issue, go to http://www.informationr.net/ir/19-4/infres194.html where articles include:
- Arthur Taylor and Heather A. Dalal: Information literacy standards and the World Wide Web: results from a student survey on evaluation of Internet information sources
- Ágústa Pálsdóttir: Preferences in the use of social media for seeking and communicating health and lifestyle information
- Sanghee Oh and Soojung Kim: College students' use of social media for health in the USA and Korea.
- Remigiusz Sapa, Monika Krakowska and Małgorzata Janiak: Information seeking behaviour of mathematicians: scientists and students
- Miamaria Saastamoinen and Sanna Kumpulainen: Expected and materialised information source use by municipal officials: intertwining with task complexity
- Paul Margree, Andrew MacFarlane, Ludovica Price and Lyn Robinson: Information behaviour of music record collectors

Plus, in the special issue Proceedings of ISIC: the information behaviour conference, Leeds, 2-5 September, 2014 at http://www.informationr.net/ir/19-4/isic/isic.html papers include:
- Fatmah Almehmadi, Mark Hepworth and Sally Maynard, A framework for understanding information sharing: an exploration of the information sharing experiences of female academics in Saudi Arabia
- Gunilla Widén, Jela Steinerová and Peter Voisey, Conceptual modelling of workplace information practices: a literature review
- Ina Fourie and Heidi Julien, Ending the dance: a research agenda for affect and emotion in studies of information behaviour
- Jenna Hartel, Information behaviour illustrated
- J. Tuomas Harviainen and Reijo Savolainen, Information as capability for action and capital in synthetic worlds
- Elke Greifeneder, Trends in information behaviour research.
- Natalie Pang, Crisis-based information seeking: monitoring versus blunting in the information seeking behaviour of working students during the Southeast Asian Haze Crisis
- Ariadne Chloe Furnival and Nelson Sebastian Silva Jerez, The general public's access and use of health information: a case study from Brazil
- Lilach Manheim, Information non-seeking behaviour
Short papers
- Melanie Benson and Andrew Cox, Visual and creative methods and quality in information behaviour research
- Geoff Walton and Jamie Cleland, Information literacy in higher education - empowerment or reproduction? A discourse analysis approach
- Leslie Thomson and Mohammad Jarrahi, Contextualising information practices and personal information management in mobile work
- Graeme Baxter and Rita Marcella, The 2014 Scottish independence referendum: a study of voters' online information behaviour.
- Emma Dunkerley, David Allen, Alan Pearman, Stan Karanasios and Jeremy Crump, The influence of social media on information sharing and decision making in policing: research in progress.
- Chandramohan Ramaswami, Murugiah Murugathasan, Puvandren Narayanasamy, and Christopher S.G. Khoo, A survey of information sharing on Facebook
Photo by Sheila Webber: chalkboard at cafe Soul, Brno, November 2014