CONUL Teaching and Learning Annual Seminar. Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, 10th November 2015

1. LILAC 2015 – Key Themes and
Concepts
Frank Brady – MU
David Macnaughton - TCD

2. LILAC Structure
• 3 days
• 3 keynotes
• 8 groups of parallels 84 sessions
• 330+ delegates

3. LILAC Themes
• Creative approaches to IL
• IL for under 18s
• IL and employability
• Delivering IL through new technologies
• Research based IL
• Outreach and collaboration

4. Keynote 1 – Ray Land Durham
University
‘There could be trouble ahead’. Threshold
Concepts, Troublesome Knowledge and
Information Literacy – a current debate.

5. Threshold Concepts
learning was ‘unsettling, risky and troubling’

6. Keynote 3 - Barbara Fister,
Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota
• The Liminal Library: Making Our Libraries Sites of
Transformative Learning.
• Information literacy is multidisciplinary, multi-layered and has
to be learned in multiple contexts over a number of years.
• As librarians or ‘savvy outsiders’ to provide libraries which act
as a ‘safe liminal place’ where learning breakthroughs can
happen instead of trying to teach information literacy.

7. Keynote 2 – Julia Jones
• Information Literacy and Trade Unions

8. One event to bring them all – collaboration with internal training providers
to bring a holistic approach to the information literacy needs of researchers
Michelle Walker, Northumbria University
• Researcher Development Week @ the
Library
• Aimed at early career researchers (Post
Phds) and staff undertaking research
• Library, IT services, Research and
Business Services and the Graduate
School
• Externals such as Adept scientific
(Endnote) and Ethos at the British
Library
• Better understanding of each others
work
• Researchers networked with each
other across departments

9. Making IL relevant in employment settings
Stéphane Goldstein – Research Information Network
Charlie Inskip – University College London
Jane Secker - London School of Economics
Geoff Walton – Northumbria University
• Information use in employment settings
• Promote the value of information and
research data literacy in HE and beyond
• Digital Literacy seen as an IT issue – needs
to be addressed
• Make it a graduate attribute
• Need to show employers the benefits to
them
• Case studies from the workplace
• What role can be played by professional
organisations in moving the agenda forward

10. Reaching the Masses: The Evolution of IL Delivery at The University of Hull
Michael Latham & Mike Ewen
• Generic information literacy sessions more
useful than embedded ones
• Identify IL delivery as being key to supporting
university objectives
• IL and study skills orientated sessions targeted
at all students in all departments
• Phased delivery to match the development of
students IL needs
• Continuity of IL delivery is secured across the
entire student body
• Scaffolded approach to meet individual
learner needs

11. Online IL with Percy the Penguin!
Sara Bird & Gillian Johnston, Newcastle University
• A range of fun and interactive information literacy
resources for 6th Form students and teachers
• Market Research
• Co-produced with teachers, school librarians and
students
• Web designer essential
• Web pages aimed at teachers but activities for
students to do
• Focused on Research Skills, Plagiarism ,
Referencing and Finding Resources
• ‘Subject’ not taught in schools. Focus upon
transferable skills and why need it to pass exams
• High Score Wins game – scores vary with views,
have to justify their choices

13. Slide 1: Rings and hand
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Slide 2: Informall
http://www.researchinfonet.org/infolit/ridls/
Slide 3: Newcastle Quayside by night
http://www.gatesheadharriers.com/quayside5k/
Slide 4: Percy Penguin
http://sixthformstudyskills.ncl.ac.uk/
http://archive.lilacconference.com/past-
conferences/lilac-2015