November 2005 Newsletter

Recent events

ANZIL Symposium Series Four
Richard Dearden, Rigmor George and Melanie Lazarow's presentations from the fourth ANZIIL symposium are available on the ANZIIL web site.

Queensland University libraries office of co-operation seminar

QULOC's information resources and access working party recently held a successful seminar on federated searching and information literacy as part of the event E-topia revisited - federated searching and open URLs. The presentations are available on the QULOC website. On the drop down menu for QULOC groups, select: information resources and access. Then click on: reports and presentations. You will then see the list of PowerPoint presentations under: E-topia revisited - federated searching and open URLs, including Kate Bunker's (ACU) IL presentation.

3rd International Evidence Based Librarianship Conference

210 delegates attended the 3rd International Evidence Based Librarianship Conference, held in Brisbane from 16-19 October. Catherine Clarke (UWA), Alan T Schroeder, Jr (California State University) and Fei Yu, Jan Sullivan and Leith Woodall's (UQ) papers on IL are available to download on the conference website. Summaries are also available for IL papers given by Gill Needham (Open University Library and Learning Resources Centre, UK), Anne Parkhill (Monash Institute of Health Services Research and Aptly Information Design) and Denise Koufogiannakis (University of Alberta Libraries, Canada).

Helen Partridge (Information Literacy Forum Secretary) was co-convenor of this very successful four day event. Lesley Ngatai (information literacy forum convenor) and Helena Zobec (forum executive committee member) attended. One of the highlights was the collaborative process undertaken by all presenters to help the delegates reach an understanding of what EBL is so we came away not only with a deeper understanding of the theory, issues and challenges, we also had a handful of practical approaches so we can now not only write in a scholarly way about our professional discipline we are also better equipped to write evidence based submissions to our funding bodies and management. Lesley.

Colloquium on Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning - Bibliotheca Alexandrina

In early November, UNESCO, the International Federation for Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), and the National Forum on Information Literacy (NFIL) co-sponsored an international meeting of information literacy and lifelong learning experts, including Australian delegates Alex Byrne and Phil Candy. The purpose of the colloquium was to share ideas on how information literacy is being introduced and implemented in the delegate's respective regions and countries. The organisers hope that the most promising ideas and approaches drawn form the colloquium will be adopted by multiple regions and countries, and, perhaps in a few instances, worldwide. For more information see the colloquium website.

Current/upcoming events

ANZIIL Symposium Series Five
The second symposium for 2005, continuing the theme 'Information literacy: getting back to basics', will be held on 10 and 11 of November 2005 at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. The Symposium program and more information can be found on the ANZIIL website.

CAVAL Reference Interest Group's annual Information Literacy Seminar
On Wednesday 23 November, at Storey Hall, RMIT, Sheila Webber and Bill Johnston will host a one day seminar: Lifting the lid: Information literacy and academics - challenging the assumptions of librarians. For more information follow the links from the CAVAL training calendar.

CAVAL Training
Two workshops entitled Mind mapping revisited: Developing creativity and information literacy will be held in Melbourne and Sydney on the Thursday 24 and Monday 28 November respectively. Bill Johnston and Sheila Webber will be conducting these workshops. For more information follow the links from the CAVAL training calendar.

Lilac 2006
Lilac 2006 will take place at the University of Leeds from 27-29 March. The conference themes for 2006 are: embedding and enriching, IL and citizenship, new areas of practice and research, practical approaches to IL, staff development and IL, and strategic approaches to IL.

World Library and Information Congress - 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council
The University Libraries and other General Libraries Section (ULS) and the Information Literacy Section (ILS) of IFLA are planning a joint program at the World Library and Information Congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council, Seoul, Korea, 20-24 August 2006, and are currently calling for papers. The theme of the joint program will be: transitions to college: how information literacy answers the knowledge society challenge. IFLA are especially looking for case studies or practical presentations. Abstracts due 15 January 2006, successful proposals identified 15 February, full paper due 1 May, 2006. Stay tuned to the web site for more information.

E-Petition on information literacy

Dr John Crawford (Glasgow Caledonian University) is petitioning the Scottish Parliament 'to urge the Scottish executive to ensure that national school curriculum recognises the importance of IL as a key lifelong learning skill'. Although the Public Petitions Committee is a Scottish institution, it very much welcomes support from all over the world. If you would like to support this petition, go to the following web site and 'sign' before 16 December.

Recent publications

Association of College and Research Libraries Distance Learning Section Instruction Committee; Ramona Islam (chair) Collaboration for distance learning information literacy instruction : SPEC kit. Washington, D.C, Association of Research Libraries, Office of Leadership and Management Services, c2005

Burke, G Germain, C A Xu, L 'Information literacy: bringing a renaissance to reference', Portal: libraries and the Academy, p353-369, 5(3), 2005

Burkhardt, J M MacDonald, M C Rathemacher, A J Creating a comprehensive information literacy plan : a how-to-do-it manual and CD-ROM for librarians. New York, Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2005

Hyams E 'No clear message on digital information skills', Library + information update, p26, 4(9), 2005

Kraat (ed.), S B Relationships between teaching faculty and teaching librarians. Binghamton. NY, Haworth Information Press, 2005

Riedling, A M Information literacy : what does it look like in the school library media center. Westport, Conn, Libraries Unlimited, 2004

Schwarz, G Brown, P U National Society for the Study of Education (US) Media literacy : transforming curriculum and teaching. Mass, Chicago Malden, 2005

Simmons, M H 'Librarians as disciplinary discourse mediators: using genre theory to move toward critical information literacy', Portal: libraries and the academy, p297-311, 5(3), 2005

Small, R V Designing digital literacy programs with IM-PACT : information motivation, purpose, audience, content, and technique. New York, Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2005

Squire, K Steinkuehler, C 'Meet the gamers', Library journal, p38-41, 130(7), 2005

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