1. CoPILOT: supporting librarians in
sharing their teaching material
internationally.
Nancy Graham (University of Birmingham)
Dr Jane Secker (London School of Economics)
LILAC 2013: University of Manchester

2. Outline of the symposium
• Background - projects, surveys, committee
• Questions for pairs/small groups
• Questions for the panel
• Actions for CoPILOT

3. Why share Information Literacy
resources?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ben_grey/4582294721/

4. Project team
• Dr Jane Secker j.secker@lse.ac.uk • Irmgarda Kasinskaite-Buddeberg
▫ Copyright & Digital Literacy ▫ Programme specialist
Advisor at London School of (Communication and Information
Economics and Political Science Sector) at UNESCO
▫ Previous IL OER projects include
JISC funded DELILA
• Nancy Graham
N.graham.1@bham.ac.uk
▫ Subject Librarian at University of
Birmingham
▫ Previous IL RLO projects include
BRUM, CaRILLO and DELILA

5. Background: DELILA
• Developing Educators Learning and Information
Literacies for Accreditation
• Cross institutional project to adapt digital and IL
resources to OER
• Improved institutional repositories hosted material
• Encouraged academics to share
• Highlighted a range of challenges when sharing IL
resources as OER
• Project website: http://delilaopen.wordpress.com/

6. Background: April 2012 survey
• To gather information about librarians’ sharing of IL
teaching material
• April 2012 for one month
• 101 responses from UK, Europe, US and beyond
• Findings indicate closed sharing
• Willingness to share openly but don’t know where to
start
• Available at
http://delilaopen.wordpress.com/il-oer-survey/

7. Survey findings

8. JISC/HEA Project CoPILOT: aims
• Develop a strategy to promote international sharing
• Part of JISC/HEA UKOER Phase 3 Programme
• 2 month timescale
• Exploited the UNESCO WSIS KC platform
• Posted links to IL material
• Discussions on OER and Creative Commons

10. Project CoPILOT: outcomes
• 35 members from 14 countries worldwide
• 19 links posted to English, Spanish, German and
French IL resources
• 53 discussion posts on 8 different topics
• Report, case study and post-project survey
• Strategy for sharing IL OERS now available

11. CoPILOT Committee
• One day event at Birmingham
• Several attendees formed committee
• Kick off meeting November 2012
• Aim: to support UK librarians in sharing openly
• Mailing list IL-OERS@jiscmail.ac.uk
• Wiki: http://iloer.pbworks.com
• Twitter: @copilot2013

12. Where and how to share?
• Is it feasible to share resources by uploading them to
repositories such as Jorum, Merlot?
• Should resources by organised by subject or by
institution or by country?
• Links or deposit?

13. How can we make this happen?
• In pairs
• Brainstorm on post-it notes

14. Questions for the panel
• What are OERs and are there any specific issues
associated with using CC licences?
• What type of IL resources are most useful? Slides,
lesson plans, worksheets, reading lists?
• How should IL resources be catalogued and
organised?
• How can LILAC, IFLA and UNESCO support sharing?
• Please ask us more…..

15. Get involved!
• Join IL-OERS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
• Join the WSIS Knowledge Communities Information
Literacy Community: http://www.wsis-
community.org/pg/groups/585111/information-literacy/
• Join us at Twitter: @copilot2013
• Join our wiki: http://iloer.pbworks.com

16. Further reading
Appleyard, S. (2012) A Survey of sharing and reuse of Information Literacy
resources across Higher Education Libraries in the United Kingdom.
Aberdeen; Robert Gordon University.
Graham, N. & Secker, J. (2012) Librarians, information literacy and open
educational resources: report of a survey. Available at:
http://delilaopen.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/findingsharingoers_reportfi
nal1.pdf
Boon, S., Bueno de la Fuente, G. & Robertson, J. (2012) The roles of
librarians and information professionals in Open Educational Resources
(OER) initiatives. Bolton; CETIS. Available at:
http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/OER-Libraries-
Survey-Report.pdf