Presentation given at ALISS Summer Conference in July 2013 on the CoPILOT sub-group which provides a community of practice for librarians to share their information literacy resources

1. CoPILOT: sharing information
literacy resources for
researchers
Nancy Graham (University of Birmingham)
Dr Jane Secker (London School of Economics)

2. Who are we?
• Dr Jane Secker
j.secker@lse.ac.uk
▫ Copyright & Digital Literacy
Advisor at London School of
Economics and Political Science
▫ Previous IL OER projects include
JISC funded DELILA
▫ Editor of
Journal of Information Literacy
• Nancy Graham
n.graham.1@bham.ac.uk
▫ Subject Librarian at University of
Birmingham
▫ Chair of CILIP IL Group
▫ Previous IL RLO projects include
BRUM, CaRILLO and DELILA

3. What are OERs?
• UNESCO definition:
Open Educational Resources are
teaching, learning or research materials
that are in the public domain or released
with an intellectual property license that
allows for free use, adaptation, and
distribution.

4. How do OERs fit in with other open
stuff?
• Complementary to Open Access, MOOCs and
Research Data Management
• All resources can sit within same platform
(institutional repository)
• Librarian has a role with all of these open
educational trends
• We can lead by example – share our own stuff!

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

6. 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/

7. 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/

8. Survey findings

9. Project CoPILOT:
• Funded by JISC / HEA and aimed to develop a
strategy to promote international sharing
• Part of JISC/HEA UKOER Phase 3 Programme
• 2 month timescale
• Exploited UNESCO Knowledge Communities platform
• Posted links to IL material
• Discussions on OER and Creative Commons

10. CoPILOT Committee
• Established as a sub-group of the CILIP Information
Literacy Group in December 2012
• Aim: to support UK librarians in sharing IL resources
openly
• Aims for 2013……
• Mailing list IL-OERS@jiscmail.ac.uk
• Wiki: http://iloer.pbworks.com
• Twitter: @CoPILOT2013

11. Sharing research support materials
• Key priority and new opportunity for academic
libraries
• Not a critical mass of resources in the area yet
• Need for professional development for librarians –
new roles, new skills
• Building on existing librarian expertise

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

13. Progress so far
• CoPILOT training event (more to follow)
▫ raising awareness about Creative Commons
▫ Advice about where to find existing materials
• Slides available:
http://www.slideshare.net/UKCoPILOT
• Creating an online space to share
• Encouraging and supporting the development of a
community of practice

14. Questions?
• What type of IL resources are most useful? Slides,
lesson plans, worksheets, reading lists?
• How should IL resources be catalogued and
organised?
• Where should they be deposited or shared?
• What role is there for institutional repositories?
• What sort of training for research support librarians
should CoPILOT be running?

15. Get involved!
• Join IL-OERS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
• Join us at Twitter: @CoPILOT2013
• Join our wiki: http://iloer.pbworks.com (note this site will
eventually be replaced by our new online community with
greater functionality)

16. Research support OERs
• MI512 Programme in LSE Learning Resources Online
and in Jorum
• RDMRose - http://rdmrose.group.shef.ac.uk/
• RILADS - http://rilads.wordpress.com/
• RIN Data management
• DCC - http://www.dcc.ac.uk/training/rdm-librarians

17. 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.
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
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_reportfinal1.pdf
Secker, Jane (2012) Digital literacy support for researchers: the personalised approach. In:
Priestner, Andy and Tilley, Elizabeth, (eds.) Personalising library services in higher education:
the boutique approach. Ashgate, Farnham, UK, pp. 107-125. Available at:
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/45810/