A webinar presented on 26 July 2016 by Sheila Webber, Pamela McKinney, Liam Bullingham and Emily Wheeler. Presentations are copyright of the respective authors. The webinar was orgabnised by the IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group in conjunction with the American Library Association. The presenters were responding to 3 questions: 1. What does Information Literacy mean to me 2. How information literacy fits in with my job 3. How (or whether) I see information literacy being important to me in the future, and/or where I would like to go next with IL Associated links: SCONUL 7 Pillars http://www.sconul.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/coremodel.pdf Review of Seven Pillars model: http://bit.ly/2a1QBme Pam McKinney and Sheila Webber’s Presentation from the creating knowledge conference: http://bit.ly/2a9mzie Alison Head keynote from the Creating Knowledge viii conference: http://bit.ly/2allHq7 University of Sheffield Information Skills resource http://www.librarydevelopment.group.shef.ac.uk/

1. IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
and
IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group
“Information Literacy in my Career”
July 26, 2016

2. IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
and
IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group
“Information Literacy in my Career”
July 26, 2016
#infolit #newlibgc

3. Keynote and moderator:
Sheila Webber
(@sheilayoshikawa)
Sheila is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for
Information Literacy Research in the Information School,
University of Sheffield. She is a committee member of IFLA
Information Literacy Section and interim co-chair of UNESCO’s
Global Alliance of partnerships for Media and information
Literacy European Chapter. She blogs at The Information Literacy
Weblog http://information-literacy.blogspot.com.

4. Information Literacy in my Career
Sheila Webber
Information School, University of Sheffield, July 2016

5. What Information Literacy means to me
Sheila Webber 2016
SCONUL 7 Pillars of Information Literacy
http://www.sconul.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/coremodel.pdf

6. Quotation from UK academic (Boon et al, 2007)
What Information Literacy means to me
Sheila Webber 2016

7. “Information literacy is the
adoption of appropriate
information behaviour to
identify, through whatever
channel or medium, information
well fitted to information needs,
leading to wise and ethical use
of information in society.”
Definition by:
Johnston &
Webber (2003)
International IL Logo
Sheila Webber, 2016

8. What Information Literacy means to me
Sheila Webber 2016Quotation from Syrian school librarian (Salha, 2010)

9. Information Literacy in my work
BritishLibrary
Sheffield
University
circa 1997 I realise
that what I am
teaching and doing
is information
literacy!!
mists of time (1979)
now (2016)Strathclyde
University
• Searching database for other people at Health & Safety Exec
• Teaching librarians to search biomedical databases
• Creating videotex pages on Prestel
• Creating bibliographic records that could be searched
• Writing user manuals
• Searching and presenting business information
• Helping businesspeople identify information needs
• Managing staff who select, evaluate, disseminate
• Teaching library students to search, present etc
• Develop credit-bearing IL module for Business School
• Start writing articles
• Still focus on sources and finding
• Connecting on IL internationally
• Information Literacy/academics project; IL blog
• IL as discipline
• “Web 2.0”, social media, 3DVW: new contexts for IL and IB
• PhD dissertations
• Call modules “Information Literacy”; develop pedagogy
• IL through the lifecourse

10. IL in my future
(Media and) Information
Literacy as a discipline to
enable life

11. Sheila Webber
Information School
University of Sheffield
s.webber@shef.ac.uk
Twitter: @sheilayoshikawa
http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/
http://www.slideshare.net/sheilawebber/
Photos: Sheila Webber (mostly
taken in Second Life, a
trademark of Linden Lab)

12. • Boon, S., Johnston, B. and Webber, S. (2007). A phenomenographic study of English
faculty's conceptions of information literacy. Journal of Documentation, 63 (2), 204-
228.
• Johnston, B. and Webber, S. (2003). Information literacy in higher education: a
review and case study. Studies in higher education, 28 (3), 335-352.
• Salha, S. (2011). The variations and the changes in the school librarians'
perspectives of information literacy. PhD Thesis, Information School, University of
Sheffield. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1538/2/Salha,_Shahd.pdf
• Webber, S. and Johnston, B. (2013) Transforming IL for HE in the 21st century: a
Lifelong Learning approach. in Hepworth, M. and Walton, G. (Eds.) Developing
people's information capabilities fostering information literacy in educational,
workplace and community contexts. Emerald. pp.15-30.
Sheila Webber 2016
References

13. Presenter
Pamela McKinney (@ischoolpam). Pamela is a Lecturer
in the Information School, University of Sheffield. Before
joining the iSchool, she was a learning developer in the
Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in the Arts and Social
Sciences, and prior to that an academic librarian at
Sheffield Hallam University.

14. Pam McKinney
Lecturer, University of
Sheffield Information
School
p.mckinney@sheffield.ac.uk
@ischoolpam

15. What does IL mean to me?
 An essential competency for everyone in their daily
lives
 A vital aspect of studying and learning, particularly if
learning is inquiry led
 Complex interactions between people, technology and
information are a feature of IL in the 21st century
 What it means to be information literate is highly
contextual

16. The SCONUL
seven pillars
 Used extensively with academic staff in my previous role as
a learning developer
 Detailed descriptions of the competencies required in the
Higher Education
 Used as an analysis framework in my research e.g.
understanding the range and depth of students’ reflections
on their IL development
 The student reflections revealed that their IL needs changed
over time as the project progresses – this is not currently
expressed in the model
 Review of Seven Pillars model: http://bit.ly/2a1QBme

17. IL in my teaching
 I support students with annotated bibliography on
Sheila’s “Information Literacy” module
 I incorporate IL development into the other modules that
I teach e.g. making sure students can search particular
resources
 I support reflection for IL development with reflective
assignments
 I support my dissertation students and personal tutees
with IL development

18. Research into IL
 Current participatory action research project with Sheila
and students on the distance learning “Information
Literacy” module to understand their progress towards
becoming IL educators and how we best can support
them.
 Presentation from the creating knowledge conference:
http://bit.ly/2a9mzie
 Pilot project to investigate the information literacy of
using apps to log diet for the purposes of weight loss

19. Future work
 Research into IL in everyday life contexts with specific
situations and groups of people.
 Alison Head keynote from the Creating Knowledge viii
conference: “Getting started is the hardest part of
course research” How can we support students in this?
http://bit.ly/2allHq7

20. Presenter
Liam Bullingham (@liamealbee). Liam is a
Liaison Librarian at the University of Sheffield.
Previous jobs included Information Adviser at
Sheffield Hallam University, Knowledge
Management Resources Assistant at DLA Piper
and Graduate Trainee Library Assistant,
Manchester Metropolitan University.

21. information literacy: personal view

22. Personal view
Aspects of the SCONUL seven pillars are highly relevant in everyday life
e.g.
evaluate: phishing scams
present: complying with copyright
These should be interpreted for each individual context
higher education
the organisation
the course
the individual

23. information literacy: professional view

27. information literacy in my future

28. Presenter
Emily Wheeler (@heliotropia). Emily is
Learning Advisor at the University of Leeds.
Previous posts include Library Graduate Trainee
at Manchester Metropolitan University. She
runs the CILIP Yorkshire and Humberside
Member Network blog and co-organises the
LISDIS (Library and Information Science
Dissertations) conference.

29. What does information
literacy mean to me?
■ Key part of academic life
■ Part of a wider set of skills/knowledge
■ Important outside university too
■ Model: SCONUL 7 Pillars

30. Information literacy
and my job
■ Student workshops – “general” and embedded
■ Online learning resources
■ Finding, creating, adapting resources & information

31. Information literacy
in the future
■ IL will always be important!
■ More work linking IL & critical thinking with current events
■ More work with younger students

32. IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
and
IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group
Thank you!
#infolit #newlibgc

33. The Three questions
1. What does Information Literacy mean to me?
2. How information literacy fits in with my job
3. How (or whether) I see information literacy being
important to me in the future, and/or where I
would like to go next with IL
#infolit #newlibgc