Information Literacy sans frontieres
Peter Godwin
University of Bedfordshire
1 July 2009

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Information Literacy sans frontieres
 Information Literacy as the key for 21st
century librarians
 The Web 2.0 connection
 Towards a mobile future?
 Conclusions

“Information Literacy education
is the catalyst required
to transform the information society
of today into the learning society of tomorrow”.
(Christine Bruce)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nypl/3109294361/sizes/m/

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

http://www.flickr.com/photos/trois-tetes/9240496/sizes/m/

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The death of librarianship?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/librarygeek/741879088

“We’re there to guide,
challenge, provide access.
and educate!”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shifted/2435282088/sizes/m
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They don’t
know
what they don’t
know!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/b-tal/573830063/sizes/m/

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
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59314524@N00/3246244830

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

What does it mean to be
Information Literate?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/millzero/1523858246/

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
http://www.search-cube.com

http://www.flickr.com/photos/queen_of_subtle/262213379/sizes/m/

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

But is it too late
for them?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/peskylibrary/1357064606/

Challenges for Information Literacy
 Poor coverage in national media
 Need to use logo widely
 New promo campaigns working with
other stakeholders

It’s more than digital literacy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26158685@N04/2798850223/sizes/m/

and it’s NOT telling them about
the Library !
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mn_francis/113890389/sizes/m/

Information Literacy is a process
UNI
Level
M
UNI Level 3
UNI Level 2
UNI Level 1
SCHOOLS

To them we appear as custodians, representatives of a thing, not
as partners in facilitating learning!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/91281489@N00/12
5403481

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
http://flickr.com/photos/yarraplenty/521189422

Web 2.0

Web 2.0
RSS feeds
Wikis
Blogs
Mashups
Podcasting Tagging
Vodcasting
flickr Twitter
del.icio.us
MySpace
YouTube
Instant messaging
LibraryThing

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.

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/notratched/2590959112/sizes/m/

5163 fans

delicious

YouTube

Podcasts

LibraryThing

Instant messaging

4.1 billion mobile subscriptions in the world by end of 2008
That’s 61.1% of the global population.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17731548@N00/2051756510

23% of 6.7 billion use the internet
By end of 2008 335m mobile broadband subscribers.
14% in developed world, and 1% in developing world.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulobrandao/2733141192/sizes/m/

Mobile devices
Blackberry
www.flickr.com/photos/80018218@N00/217877008
Pda
www.flickr.com/photos/28902292@N00/272713766
www.flickr.com/photos/11018968@N00/48288735
Cellphone
iPodTouch iPhone
www.flickr.com/photos/44124466908@N01/1398846596

Count the iPhones
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36521984920@N01/857038592

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 Code
2. Accept the image taken
3. Neo Reader automatically delivers an action. In this case to open my Flickr stream.
QR codes
http://www.flickr.com/photos/create_up/3489797454/sizes/m/

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.

Try out Web 2.0 tools and use them
where they work
http://www.flickr.com/photos/abridgeover/401110043/sizes/m/

Continous Personal Development
The new Open University CPD
course GT067

Promoting equality
Key to knowledge
Being where they
are
Wired up
Books, e-books Community and
diversity
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blg3/3208832266/
The New Librarian?

Our future
“Our interventions should
be constructive, active,
asking questions – we
are there to sharpen the
calibre of their
questions.”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/2516648940/sizes/m/

Librarians go wild
http://flickr.com/photos/driek/514714536/