This document summarizes a workshop about building a community to share information literacy resources as open educational resources (OERs). The workshop aimed to discuss how to develop a site for librarians to share teaching materials through open licenses, address challenges like copyright and establishing metadata standards, and define next steps like specific tasks and holding future meetings. The project is starting in the UK but hopes to engage partners globally to expand OER sharing of information literacy resources.

1. Building a community of practice
for sharing information literacy
resources as OERs
Nancy Graham (University of Birmingham)
Dr Jane Secker (London School of Economics)
University of Birmingham, 14th August 2012

2. Information Literacy OERs – going
for gold!
• Bringing together two key areas:
information literacy and open
educational resources
• UNESCO extremely interested in
both areas as are many
information professionals
• UK could be an exemplar!
• Important for:
▫ Supporting lifelong learning http://www.flickr.com/photos/ben_grey/4582294721/
▫ Building up expertise and sharing
good practice
▫ Capacity building

3. Workshop overview
10.30 – 11.00 Registration and coffee
11.00- 11.30 Welcome and introduction to the day
Presentation of findings from the survey
11.30 – 12.30 WORKSHOP 1
First set of small group discussions on the following topics:
•How do you want to share IL resources?
•Licencing of resources: CC and other licences
•Metadata standards and cataloguing IL resources
•Role of peer review and evaluating resources
12.30-12.45 Feedback from groups?
12.45-1.15 LUNCH BREAK
1.15-2.00 WORKSHOP 2
Second set of small group discussions on the following general questions:
•Who should do this work in the UK?
•What sort of funding might we need?
•How many people need to be involved?
•Do we need a cross sectoral group?
2.00-2.30 Feedback from groups?
2.30-3.00 Discussion and agreement of roles and next steps
3.00 Close

4. Project team and background
• 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 • Background
• Nancy Graham ▫ Previous projects and events
N.graham.1@bham.ac.uk highlighted a demand for
▫ Subject Librarian at University of librarians to share information
Birmingham literacy (IL) open educational
▫ Previous IL RLO projects include resources (OER)
BRUM, CaRILLO and DELILA
▫ Existing platforms were not quite
the right “fit” (too local, only basic
metadata etc.)
▫ Project team worked together on
DELILA and wanted to follow up

5. Previous projects: BRUM & CaRILLO
BRUM CaRILLO
•Created 15 RLOs for •One day event for librarians
information literacy creating and sharing teaching
for academics to use material
•Various formats and •Highlighted demand for a
topics
‘one stop shop’ of IL material
•Available online
to share
•Created a wiki

6. Previous projects: DELILA
• Developing Educators Learning and Information
Literacies for Accreditation
• Cross institutional project to adapt existing digital
and information literacy teaching material to be 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/

7. The survey
• To gather information about librarians’ sharing of IL
teaching material
• Launched in April 2012 for one month
• 101 responses from UK, Europe, US and beyond
• Available at http://delilaopen.wordpress.com/il-oer-
survey/

8. Key points – current sharing
• Majority are sharing but through closed professional
networks
• Far fewer use national or global sites – but most
would like to use them more!
• Main barriers are lack of technical and licencing
skills/knowledge

9. Survey findings

10. Survey findings

11. Key points – current re-use
• Huge range of sites (~57 listed in survey) but only
few very popular
• Minority don’t re-use due to lack of relevant material
available
• Many would like to see explicit Creative Commons
licences

12. Survey findings

13. Our project aims
• Develop a site for librarians to share material, to
host links and to find help when creating material
• We are starting with UK resources but aim to recruit
partners globally – don’t want to reinvent the wheel!
• Want to raise awareness of OER and Creative
Commons amongst librarians
• Librarians well placed to be advocates of OER
• To include lesson plans and “how to use” guides
• Capacity building through partners such as UNESCO
and IFLA

14. Community of practice
• JISC Good Intentions report (2008) highlights
importance of CoP – same curricula encourages
sharing
• Librarians in UK with interest in IL have LILAC and
CSG-Information Literacy Group
• Other existing groups in US, Ireland etc.
• Used LILAC network to build global capacity
• Looking to use IFLA and UNESCO groups to build on
to help LDCs

15. Challenges & next steps
• IPR issues - particularly • Report of survey findings
screenshots and logos • Build on technical expertise
• Institutional nature of IL • Recruit more advocates
material – too specific? • Develop annual timetable of
• Need to include learning
activities/events
designs rather than just
PowerPoints ▫ Kick off meeting in the UK
• Need for good quality today!
metadata and agreed • Explore role of peer
vocabulary to ‘tag’ IL reviewers/editorial boards
resources ▫ Devised evaluation criteria as
• Keeping resources up to part of DELILA
date

16. Challenge 1: What’s in a name?
• Can you come up with a good acronym for our
project in your groups today?
Word Search by peretzpup

17. Challenge 2: how do we do this?
• Think about what you could contribute personally?
▫ Expertise and time?
• How do we build a community of practice?
▫ What tools do we need?
▫ Do we need face to face and virtual meetings?

18. Workshop 1
• First set of small group discussions on the following
topics:
▫ How do you want to share IL resources? (A)
▫ Licencing of resources: CC and other licences (B)
▫ Metadata standards and cataloguing IL resources (C)
▫ Role of peer review and evaluating resources (D)

19. Workshop 2
• Second set of small group discussions on the
following general questions:
▫ Who should do this work in the UK?
▫ What sort of funding might we need?
▫ How many people need to be involved?
▫ Do we need a cross sectoral group?

20. Next steps
• 3 – 5 tasks – what are they? Who will do them?
• When will the next meeting be and who wants to be
there?
• Use of the wiki for collecting ideas / getting
contributions from others

21. Thanks for coming!
• Stay in touch
• http://ilrloshare.wetpaint.com
• Twitter:
▫ @msnancygraham
▫ @jsecker