ALIA Information Literacy Forum

April 2007 Newsletter

Who are we?

ALIA Information Literacy Forum fosters a common understanding of and advocates for information literacy within ALIA and the general community.

The Forum promotes professional development opportunities in information literacy for library and information services personnel.

Membership 2007

Our 538 members come from all states, overseas and from a variety of sectors.

The 'other' members include students, retired librarians, national/state and government, as well as a wide range such as joint use libraries.

Our Committee 2007

Convenor Helen Partridge, Senior Lecturer, School of Information Systems Queensland University of Technology.

Secretary Dr Anne Lloyd, Senior Lecturer, School of Information Studies Charles Sturt University

Treasurer Clare Thorpe, Campus Librarian (Springfield), University of Southern Queensland

Website co-ordinator, listserv moderator Mark Jones, Librarian, Brisbane North Institute of TAFE

Committee Member Brenda Clover, Head of Library, Perth College Mt Lawley

Committee Member Diane Humphery, Information Literacy Consultant, University of Canberra

Committee Member Melanie Lazarow, Senior Information Consultant, Education Technology Services University of Melbourne
Newsletter Editor Marjorie Jeffers, Student

Special Thanks to retiring committee members

The Information Literacy Forum Committee would like to thank retiring 2006 committee members Lesley Ngatai, Liz Burke, Jane Knowles, Mandy Lupton and Helena Zobec for their valuable contributions.

Recent Events

NLS3 Satellite Event

The ALIA Information Literacy Forum held a one day event of information literacy workshops, information sessions and case study labs as a pre-colloquium to the 3 New Librarians' Symposium held in Sydney December 1-2, 2006 at UNSW. The event was held in late November at UNSW Library. The program included putting information literacy into practice, an indigenous model of information literacy and the corporate librarian and information literacy. Details of the program and facilitators can be found at the forum website.

Information Online 2007

Information Online 2007 was held at Darling Harbour in Sydney from 30th January to 1st February 2007. Speakers covered a range of topics including information security, knowledge management, managing in the virtual world and managing with disruptive technologies. The Organising Committee developed this program to challenge and inspire delegates from all aspects of the information sector. Papers and presentations are now available from the conference website.

LILAC 2007

The CILIP CSG Information Literacy Group's annual conference was recently held in Manchester. Conference themes included advocacy, marketing and promotion, practical approaches to information literacy and information literacy and citizenship. Christine Bruce from the Faculty of Information Technology QUT was a keynote speaker. Summary information is available from the conference website.

Upcoming Events

World Library and Information Congress: 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council, Durban, South Africa, 19-23 August 2007

The Information Literacy Section (IL) and the Academic and Research Libraries Section (ARL) of IFLA are planning a joint open program at the World Library and Information Congress. Papers will relate to the program theme: Conduits for Transformation: Incorporating Multimodal Instruction and Learning into Information Literacy. Further information can be found at the conference site.

ANZIIL Symposium Series Seven, Why we do what we do: theory and action, Monday 29 - Tuesday 30 October 2007

Symposium 7 continues ANZIL's popular series of practical, case study driven symposia on information literacy. The Hobart Symposium will provide a theoretic basis for librarians to think about and apply in teaching programs, collaboration for curriculum development, and other services that develop information literacy in tertiary education. Further details will be added to the symposium site as they become available. Registrations open at the end of April.

First Annual Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium, Chicago, 22-24 July 2007

ALA TechSource in collaboration with the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) is sponsoring the first annual gaming, learning and libraries symposium for academic, public and school libraries. More than 25 sessions will cover topics such as creating games for information literacy, implementing gaming programs, teaching kids how to make their own games, gaming for adults, digital downloads for gamers, online fiction games, and more. Information on the program and registration is available at the symposium site.

Recent Publications

Volume 1, Issue 1 (January 2007) of the new Journal of Information Literacy (JIL) which was launched at the Lilac 2006 conference is now available.

Boon, S., Johnston, B. and Webber, S. (2007) 'A phenomenographic study of English faculty's conceptions of information literacy' Journal of documentation, 63(2), 204-228.

Fafeita, Jenny. (2006) 'The current status of teaching and fostering information literacy in TAFE', Australian Academic and Research Libraries, 37(2), 136-161.

Ferguson, Stuart. (2006) 'AS 5037-2005: knowledge management blueprint for Australian organisations?', Australian Library Journal, 55(3), 196-209.

Herring, James. (2006) 'The info-smart learner's toolkit: information literacy, intranets, and learning and teaching websites', Access, 20(3), 21-25.

Lloyd, Annemaree. (2006) 'Information Literacy Landscapes: an emerging picture', Journal of Documentation, 62(5), 570-583.

Matoush, Toby Leigh. (2006) 'New Forms of Information literacy', Reference Services Review, 34(1), 156-163.