CONUL Teaching and Learning Annual Seminar. Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, 16th November, 2017.

1. New tricks?
Negotiating the librarian identity
Emma Coonan
Information & Digital Literacies Librarian, UEA
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Information Literacy

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4. “find precisely the right information,
in a finite repository, by skilful searching”
Beeson, 2006

5. “An information literacy approach … might
not even in every case take the student to
a library.”
Badke, 2010

6. “you don’t need the hierarchy anymore.
There is no shelf.There is no file system.
The links alone are enough.”
Shirky, 2005

7. JohnTenniel,1865
(publicdomain)

8. Gillen & Barton, 2010
“… the constantly changing practices
through which people make traceable
meanings using digital technologies”

9. Beetham, 2009
“We are not describing new aspects of
knowledge or learning here, but
knowledge under different conditions.”

10. Emma Coonan
Information & Digital Literacies Librarian, UEA
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Information Literacy

11. WikimediaCommons(publicdomain)

13. WikimediaCommons(publicdomain)

16. JohnTenniel,1865
(publicdomain)

18. With grateful acknowledgements to:

19. References and more
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