Volume 50 issue 1 (2024) of the Journal of Academic Librarianship (a priced publication) includes the following:
- Exploring the connections between teaching librarians' beliefs about teaching and their teaching methods by Ashlynn Kogut "Thirteen teaching librarians from three R1 doctoral universities in Texas were interviewed ... Three themes were identified across institutions and instructional contexts related to teaching methods: engaging students in the teaching interaction, connecting information literacy content to the real world, and creating a supportive atmosphere. Three themes were identified related to teaching beliefs: beliefs in the importance of understanding students' unique learning needs, understanding students' affective dimensions of learning, and respecting the knowledge students bring to the teaching interaction."
Academic instruction librarians' feelings of job control: Quantitative analysis of responses to a job control inventory by Matthew Weirick Johnson
- Tracking information in the field: An assessment of the information needs and services of a field station library by Thomas Gerrish, Scott Martin
- Investigating curriculum integrated information literacy by Simone Bernard " First-year undergraduate students at University of Guyana responded to an online questionnaire and participated in online interviews to share perceptions of their information literacy competencies during the second semester of academic year 2021/2022. SPSS was used to analyze the quantitative data and the qualitative data was coded to identify common themes. The results of the study revealed information literacy courses positively impacted students' perceptions of their information literacy self-efficacy, skills, and attitudes."
Go to https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/the-journal-of-academic-librarianship/vol/50/issue/1
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Curating information literacy stories from around the world since 2005
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Recent articles: librarians' teaching beliefs; information needs; students and information literacy
Monday, March 18, 2024
Article: La Alfabetización Informacional en las carreras pedagógicas cubanas
Hernández-Campillo, T.R.,Veranes Gálvez, L. & Arias Hidalgo, A.B. (2023). La Alfabetización Informacional en las carreras pedagógicas cubanas [Information Literacy of Cuban trainee educators]. Información, cultura y sociedad , (49), 9-33. (In Spanish) https://tinyurl.com/yb2evdcm
English abstract: "The study discusses the relevance of information
literacy in higher education, based on Area 1 of the European Framework
of Digital Competences for Citizenship. In this sense, an information
literacy program is proposed for the acquisition of informational
competencies of students of pedagogical careers at the University of
Camagüey." They used mixed methods with students and teachers "The
results of the diagnosis show insufficiencies in the search, evaluation,
and management of digital information. Thus, the program developed
contains a set of actions focused on the treatment of digital
information for teaching activities to improve the information literacy
of the subjects investigated. It is concluded that information literacy
should have an important place in the academic performance of students
and be subject to continuous evaluation."
Spanish abstract: "El estudio aborda la pertinencia de la Alfabetización Informacional en la educación superior, a partir de lo explicitado en el Área 1 del Marco Europeo de Competencias Digitales para la Ciudadanía. En ese sentido, se propone un programa de Alfabeti-zación Informacional para la adquisición de competencias informacionales en estu-diantes de carreras pedagógicas de la Universidad de Camagüey. La pesquisa asume el enfoque mixto de la investigación y la observación no participante como método empírico. ... Los resultados del diagnóstico evidencian insuficiencias en la búsqueda, evaluación y gestión de información digital. De esta forma, el programa elaborado contiene un conjunto de acciones enfocadas al tratamiento de la información digital para las actividades docentes con el fin de mejorar la Alfabetización Informacional de los sujetos indagados. Se concluye que la Alfabetización Informacional debe ocupar un espacio importante en el desempeño académico de los discentes y ser sujeta a continua evaluación."
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Sunday, March 17, 2024
Webinar: Inclusive pedagogical practices in library instruction
A free ACRL webinar on 27 March 2024 at 11.00 US Pacific time (which will be 18.00 UK time, as the US has sprung forward but the UK hasn't) is Inclusive Pedagogy Spring Webinar: Inclusive pedagogical practices in library instruction
"Topics of inclusive pedagogy have a strong connection to the field of education and are usually centered on instruction issues. These connections have strongly influenced LIS practice especially through libraries' information literacy and instruction roles, and the instruction component of reference services. A recent special issue of Reference Services Review, co-edited by Dr. Kawanna M. Bright and Dr. Mónica Colón-Aguirre, focuses on the integration of critical and inclusive pedagogical practices into library instruction and instructional aspects of reference services.
"In this webinar, Drs. Bright and Colón-Aguirre will provide insights into the articles included in the special issue. In addition, a select panel of authors who contributed to the issue will provide personal perspectives on their work and its importance to the field."
Register at https://ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__LIvDA_nRryU0Mo42oCV8w#/registration
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Friday, March 15, 2024
Call for participants: #REDMIL24
There is a call for participants (PhD students) for the 2024 (9-12 September 2024) Summer School - Research on Digital, Media and Information Literacy (ReDMIL 2024) which will be held in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) with the theme of From mass media to generative AI: Charting the (dis)continuities in literacies. There is a Euro120 delegate fee. The deadline is 15 May 2024.
The summer school "aims at contributing to the convergence between digital, media and information literacy research by bringing together researchers from all three communities, to foster the scientific debate and explore connections between them."
The format is that talks from invited experts alternate with sessions in which PhD students present and debate their research. I was an invited expert in a previous REDMIL and it was one of my best ever conference experiences as it gave a lot of opportunity to get to know people and debate in depth. The experts this year are: Gianna Cappello, University of Palermo (Italy); Normand Landry, Université TELUQ (Canada); Julian Sefton-Green, Deakin University (Australia); Leo Van Audenhove, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium); Emily Vraga, University of Minnesota (USA).
As regards the theme, they say "We wish to inject a historical dimension into our examination of research in media / information / digital literacy and devote some of our attention to the changes in media, media practices, audiences and user communities, but also in imaginaries and narratives that embody the hopes and fears we place in media and information technology.
"We want to ask what these changes force us to reconsider in research on media / information / digital literacy, how they are accompanied by changes in the way we theorize media, information, technology and literacies, the way we conceive our research methods, our epistemologies, and our axiological positions. In reflecting on these developments, we are more attentive to continuities than to chiasms and so-called paradigm shifts."
The website is at https://sites.uclouvain.be/redmil/ and the full call for applications (a lot more detail!) at https://sites.uclouvain.be/redmil/call2024/
PS. In searching for REDMIL I discovered that some expert talks from REDMIL2018, including mine, are on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/@groupederechercheenmediati3820
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Thursday, March 14, 2024
Data Literacy & Information Literacy
Pinto, María; Caballero-Mariscal, David; García-Marco, Francisco-Javier; Gómez-Camarero, Carmen (2023). A
strategic approach to information literacy: data literacy. A systematic review. Profesional de la información, 32(6), article e320609.
https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2023.nov.09 Spanish language version
https://revista.profesionaldelainformacion.com/index.php/EPI/article/view/87425
"For this purpose, a systematic
review was carried out of the papers in the main collection of the Web of Science that contain both concepts (DL and
Infolit) and that were indexed up until March 2023. External aspects, such as the growth of the research and the identity,
nationality, professional scope, and productivity of the authors, were taken into account. In addition, internal aspects,
such as context (theory, frameworks, definitions, models, and related disciplines), objectives, methodology, results, conclusions, and recommendations, were analyzed to obtain a detailed perspective of the scientific research process adopted. A synchronic and diachronic analysis of the corpus of selected articles is offered, focusing on the aforementioned
aspects"
Ebijuwa, A.S. (2023). Integrating Data Literacy into Information Literacy Programmes: Any Difference? International Journal of Library and Information Science Studies, 9(6), 33-45.https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:62597/
"... the question as to whether data literacy should replace information literacy has not been properly articulated in recent times in Africa even though it is acknowledged that the resultant effect of this data literacy is expected to precipitate the advent of the data revolution and the rise of digital technologies which are needed in today’s information age. The question of the degree of the nature of the integration of data literacy into information literacy programs and how it could be taught synergistically and push data literacy strategically for the fourth industrial revolution is a major fulcrum of this study."
Image by Sheila Webber with Midjourney AI a japanese windchime, glass bell furin, with sakura pattern, hanging in a forest, restful, blossoms on the breeze --v 6.0
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
AI for Infolit in HE; Generative AI in teaching business IL
Firstly, a useful padlet of 10 resources on Information Literacy in Higher Education in the age of AI by Daihua Chen at Robert Gordon University (for those who want to use AI in teaching IL): https://padlet.com/34811368/annotated-bibliography-diswm0hnmlhx9tot
Secondly, an article reflecting on generative AI use in a business class:
- Jonathan M. Torres (2024) Leveraging ChatGPT and bard for academic librarians and information professionals: a case study of developing pedagogical strategies using generative AI models, Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship. (early online publication). https://doi.org/10.1080/08963568.2024.2321729 "This study focuses on improving pedagogical strategies by integrating artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots and library databases. Examples from ChatGPT and Bard were used to demonstrate the quality of information. A cross-examination using a research validation template was conducted; it revealed that no artificial hallucinations were produced. However, the information provided by both AI chatbots was slightly outdated based on organizational changes and did not provide an in-depth analysis of the company."
Image created by Sheila Webber using Midjourney AI
Monday, March 11, 2024
Registration open for #WILU2024
Registration is open for the 2024 Workshop for Instruction in Library Use (WILU), to be held in Richmond (Metro Vancouver), BC, Canada, 15-17 May 2024. The Conference Theme is Embracing Change and the programme is available.
I'm happy to be chairing a panel there, Information as a discipline enabling change, with Karen Kaufmann, Syeda Hina Batool, Clarence Maybee and Bill Johnston.
Costs: Regular Attendee: $335 + tax (earlybird to 2 April), $385 + tax; Speaker $285 + tax (earlybird to 2 April), $335 + tax; Student $180 + tax. Go to https://wordpress.kpu.ca/wilu2024/
Friday, March 08, 2024
New articles: Curriculum mapping; Research sprints
- When There’s No Information Literacy Requirement: Curriculum Mapping to Drive Engagement by Monica V. Locker and Jennifer L.A. Whelan.
- 'A Supernova that Sparks in Every Direction’: A Long-Term Assessment of the Research Sprints Faculty Engagement Program by Jenny McBurney, Sarah Jane Brown, Mariya Gyendina, Shanda Hunt, Rebecca Orozco, Michael Peper, Greta Valentine, Benjamin Wiggins, and Karna Younger.
Go to https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/issue/view/1653/showToc
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Thursday, March 07, 2024
Creating Knowledge XI: Registration opens
- The tide, not the waves: AI education for novice learners by Matti Tedre and Henriikka Vartiainen, University of Eastern, Finland
- Shifting the Paradigm: Addressing Manipulative Behaviour Instead of Problematic Content by Siim Kumpas, European External Action Service, EU
- Human Brains in the Digital Information Landscape - Neuroscience of Learning and Attention by Minna Huotilainen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Go to https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/creating-knowledge-2024 Registration for the conference will open on 28 February 2024. Early-bird registration fee (to 2 April) is 350 EUR and then it's 410 EUR.
Photo by Sheila Webber: squirrel and tree, February 2024
Wednesday, March 06, 2024
Music students and information literacy
An article which talks about applying the ACRL Framework for information literacy to the music curriculum, with some detailed examples and lesson plans:
Roush, K. (2023). Applications of Information Literacy to Teaching Independent Music Analysis. Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, 37, 124-156. (this is the link to the whole issue) https://digitalcollections.lipscomb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1439&context=jmtp
Image by Sheila Webber using Midjourney AI, prompt is: musical notation, notes flying in the air, green forest, spring flowers --v 6.0
Tuesday, March 05, 2024
Citizen Engagement in Evidence-informed Policy-making
World Health Organization. (2024). Citizen engagement in evidence-informed policy-making: a guide to mini-publics. https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/376107/9789240081413-eng.pdf
"Mini-publics are a type of forum that include a cross-section of the population, selected through the civic lottery method, to participate in evidence-informed deliberation to inform policy and action. The term refers to a diverse family of democratic innovations, including citizens’ juries, planning cells, citizens’ assemblies, citizens’ panels, consensus conferences, citizens’ councils, and citizens’ committees."
They also reminded us of their earlier document:
World Health Organization. (2024). Implementing citizen engagement within evidence-informed policy-making: an overview of purpose and methods. https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/364361/9789240061521-eng.pdf?sequence=1
Image by Sheila Webber using Midjourney AI, prompt people in a circle, holding hands, semi-abstract, line drawing, pastel colour wash, tranquil --v 6.0 --ar 16:9
Monday, March 04, 2024
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
The call for papers for the Georgia [USA] International Conference on Information Literacy has been extended to 8 March 2024. The conference is online, and will be held 19-20 April 2024 with the conference theme: Information Literacy in the Age of AI.
“We invite proposals that speak to the theme of information literacy in the age of AI, including, but not limited to, teaching critical information literacy, ethical considerations in using AI in research and teaching, the role of AI in misinformation and disinformation, AI technologies for research, assessing student work, librarian-educator partnerships, challenges and possibilities for diversity and inclusion in the age of AI, and the importance of human librarians and instructors in information literacy.”
Go to https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/
Friday, March 01, 2024
Webinar/ discussion: The Query Search Method
The next (free) LIS Pedagogy chat is The Query Search Method: Teaching Database Searching for Contemporary Reference Services on 8 March 2024 at 14.00 US Eastern time (which is, for example, 19.00 UK time).
"Vanessa Irvin (East Carolina University, USA) and Sarah Nakashima (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA) will share their innovative approach to synthesizing database search techniques with reference services. The Query Search Method (QSM) brings criticality, literacy studies, and reflective inquiry into reference services that are now primarily technology-driven for a holistic, sociocultural consideration of the interaction between librarians and patrons and the questions they both ask in library settings."
Registration at https://www.lispedagogychat.org/schedule-registration
Photo by Sheila Webber: shadows and sun in the Botanic Gardens, February 2024