information literacy sans frontieres

Information Literacy sans frontieres

Peter GodwinUniversity of Bedfordshire1 July 2009

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Information Literacy sans frontieres

Information Literacy as the key for 21st century librarians

The Web 2.0 connectionTowards a mobile future?Conclusions

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“Information Literacy education is the catalyst required

to transform the information society of today into the learning society of tomorrow”.

(Christine Bruce)

Shall we end up like Hadrian’s Library in Athens?

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The death of librarianship?

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“We’re there to guide, challenge, provide access.

and educate!”

They don’t know what they don’t know!

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JISC Higher education in a Web 2.0 world(2009)

"Information literacies – including searching, retrieving and critically evaluating information from a range of appropriate sources and also attributing it – represent a significant and growing deficit area.”

It’s a lifelong process

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Student needs are changing

They will challenge us

At the centre of all the literacies

Media literacy

IT literacy Information literacy Language literacy Visual literacy

E literacy Information fluency I-skills Information skills

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What does it mean to be Information Literate?

What is Information Literacy?

“Information literacy is the adoption of appropriate information behaviour to identify through whatever channel or medium, information well fitted to information needs, leading to wise and ethical use of information in society.”

(Sheila Webber and Bill Johnston)

SCONUL Seven Pillars framework

Recognising need for information

Distinguishing sources and access

Constructing search strategies

Locating and accessing Comparing & evaluating Organising, applying

and communicating Synthesising and adding

new knowledge

The phenomenological view of Information Literacy

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Information Literacy

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CIBER report, Information behaviour of the researcher of the future. Jan. 2008

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But is it too late for them?

Challenges for Information Literacy

Poor coverage in national mediaNeed to use logo widelyNew promo campaigns working with

other stakeholders

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It’s more than digital literacy

and it’s NOT telling them about the Library !

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Information Literacy is a process

SCHOOLS

UNI Level 1

UNI Level 2

UNI Level 3

UNILevel

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To them we appear as custodians, representatives of a thing, not as partners in facilitating learning!

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It’s about embedding

“Information Literacy is big and messy,

aiming to change habits, via skills embedded

in subject study”

Librarians as movers and shakers

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Web 2.0

Web 2.0

RSS feeds Wikis

Blogs Mashups Podcasting Tagging Vodcasting flickr Twitter del.icio.us MySpace YouTube Instant messagingLibraryThing

Library 2.0

Find out your users’ changing needs Get rid of the culture of perfect Become aware of emerging technologies

and opportunities Look outside the library world for

applications, opportunities, inspiration

Recent ACRL report

Booth, Char Informing innovation : tracking student interest in emerging Library technologies at Ohio University.

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5163 fans

delicious

YouTube

Podcasts

LibraryThing

Instant messaging

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4.1 billion mobile subscriptions in the world by end of 2008 That’s 61.1% of the global population.

By end of 2008 335m mobile broadband subscribers.14% in developed world, and 1% in developing world.

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23% of 6.7 billion use the internet

Mobile devices

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Blackberry

CellphoneiPodTouch iPhone

Pda

Count the iPhones

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Mobilib at NCSU Library

Tours

Handhelds for reference services at Penn State University

Emily Rimland Penn State University Used Sony Viai UX-490, OQO, Futitsu Lifebook and

Nokia N-810

Using Neo Reader which is free on the iPhone.1. Scan the QR Code2. Accept the image taken3. Neo Reader automatically delivers an action. In this case to open my Flickr stream. 

QR codes

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Use RefWorks on your mobile with RefMobile

Into the future

Librarians have a dynamic part to play in student learning, through assisting in information literacy development

We must work strategically with academic staff to embed these information literacy interventions

We should encourage a joined-up approach to IL from schools through HE into lifelong learning.

We have a raft of Web 2.0 tools to help with this.

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Try out Web 2.0 tools and use them where they work

Continous Personal Development

The new Open University CPD course GT067

Key to knowledge

Wired up

Books, e-books

Promoting equality

Being where they are

Community and diversity

The New Librarian?

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Our future

“Our interventions should be constructive, active, asking questions – we are there to sharpen the calibre of their questions.”

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Librarians go wild

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