The Research Information Network has just released a report entitled, “the role of research supervisors in information literacy“. Obviously, they note that practice varies considerably, but note that most supervisors act to support the development of their students’ information literacy. Even if their own practice is not entirely up to date.
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Gwyneth’s readings about information and digital literacies
Gwyneth has identified a selection of readings about digital literacies that are intended to help the team develop a common understanding of what we mean by information and digital literacies. These are:
SCONUL Seven Pillars of Information Literacy (2011) http://www.sconul.ac.uk/groups/information_literacy/seven_pillars.html
Bruce, C., Edwards, S. and Lupton, M. (2006). ‘Six Frames for Information literacy Education: a conceptual framework for interpreting the relationships between theory and practice’. [Online]. Italics, 5 (1). Available at: http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/italics/vol5-1/pdf/sixframes_final%20_1_.pdf
Lloyd, A. (2005). ‘Information literacy; different contexts, different concepts, different truths’. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 37 (2), 82 – 88
Connaway, L. S. and Dickey, T. J. (2010 ). ‘Digital Information Seeker, Findings from selected OCLC, RIN and JISC user behaviour projects’. [Online]. Available at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/reports/2010/digitalinformationseekerreport.pdf
Learning Literacies for a Digital Age (LLiDA) project http://www.academy.gcal.ac.uk/llida/outputs.html
Dingley, E. (2010). ‘Postgraduate Information Needs And Online Tools Awareness.’. [Online]. Arcadia Project report. Available at: http://arcadiaproject.lib.cam.ac.uk/docs/PINOTA-Report.pdf
Goodfellow, R. (2011). ‘Literacy, literacies and the digital in higher education’. Teaching in Higher Education, 16 (1), 131-131-144.
Lankshear, C. and Knobel, M. (2008). Digital literacies : concepts, policies and practices. New York ; Oxford: Peter Lang.
Blog site now open!
This placeholder post is just to signal the creation of the project website. We can and should replace the photo, and can change the colour scheme.