CoPILOT: supporting librarians in sharing their teaching material internationally.

Nancy Graham (University of Birmingham)Dr Jane Secker (London School of Economics)

LIR Seminar 2013: Liberty Hall, Dublin

Today’s talk

•Who are we?•Why a Community of Practice?•2012 survey of librarians•CoPILOT Committee• JISC/HEA CoPILOT project outcomes•Where are we heading?•Questions/comments?

Project team

• Dr Jane Secker▫ Copyright & Digital Literacy

Advisor at London School of Economics and Political Science

▫ Previous IL OER projects include JISC funded DELILA

• Nancy Graham▫ Subject Librarian at University of

Birmingham▫ Previous IL RLO projects include

BRUM, CaRILLO and DELILA

• Irmgarda Kasinskaite-Buddeberg▫ Programme specialist

(Communication and Information Sector) at UNESCO

Why share Information Literacy resources via a CoP?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ben_grey/4582294721/

Survey results 2012

•How librarians share teaching material•April 2012 for one month•101 responses from UK, Europe, US and beyond•Findings indicate lots of closed sharing•BUT a willingness to share openly

•Available at http://delilaopen.wordpress.com/il-oer-survey/

Survey findings

CoPILOT Committee

•One day event at Birmingham•Several attendees formed committee•Kick off meeting November 2012•Aim: to support UK librarians in sharing openly

•Mailing list IL-OERS@jiscmail.ac.uk•Wiki: http://iloer.pbworks.com•Twitter: @copilot2013

JISC/HEA Project CoPILOT: aims

•Part of JISC/HEA UKOER Phase 3 Programme•2 month timescale•UNESCO WSIS KC platform•Posted links to IL material•Discussions on OER and Creative Commons

Project CoPILOT: outcomes

•35 members from 14 countries worldwide•19 links posted to English, Spanish, German and

French IL resources•53 discussion posts on 8 different topics•Report, case study and post-project survey•Strategy for sharing IL OERS now available

Where are we heading?

•Regular committee meetings•Open licence event on 30th May at Uni of Surrey•Symposium at LILAC on 26th March•Workshop at OER13 on 27th March•New project with UNESCO and IFLA to upgrade

InfoLit Global

Get involved!

• Join IL-OERS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK• Join the WSIS Knowledge Communities Information

Literacy Community: http://www.wsis-community.org/pg/groups/585111/information-literacy/

• Join us at Twitter: @copilot2013• Join our wiki: http://iloer.pbworks.com