Information Literacy and Library 2.0

ELVIRA B. LAPUZelvira.lapuz@up.edu.ph

From Salzburg, Austria…

Session 439 of Salzburg Seminar “New Information Networks: Challenges and Opportunities for Business, Governments and Business”

13-18 March 2007

Freeman Foundation grant

Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, Austria

From Salzburg, Austria…

Dramatic change in the production of information and the organization of the digital environment

Social networking and peer production that empower individuals to create, distribute, share, and consume information

… to Wellington, New Zealand

Workshop on Information Literacy and IT

12 November-7 December 2007

IFLA ALP scholarship grant

Victoria University Library, Wellington, New Zealand

… to Wellington, New Zealand

First Week : Pedagogy for Information Literacy Education

Second Week : IL Program development and content

Third Week : IL Program delivery

Fourth Week : IL Program Evaluation

Pedagogy for Information Literacy Education

Context of Information Literacy

Basic IL skills

Defining Information Needs, Critical Thinking and Independent Learning

Developing search strategies and choosing most relevant sources; roadblocks to good searching

Student learning styles

IL Program development and content

Database structure for good searching

Evaluating information and web sites

Web search engines

Rationale for an IL program

Citing information resources and ethical use of information

IL project work

IL Program delivery

Web 2.0 for Libraries – using blogs and wikis as sources of information and as tools to support IL education

Producing good teaching aids

Technologies for IL in distance education

Presentation skills for the IL classroom

IL Program Evaluation

Evaluating/Getting feedback on an IL program

Managing and marketing an IL program

Assessing program outcomes

Presentation of IL project work

“Proposal for Information Literacy at the University of the Philippines-Diliman”

This lecture aims to:

Define and discuss Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 in the context of Information Literacy

Present Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 as platforms for providing Information Literacy

Identify the various Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 tools that can be integrated in the development of IL programs

The concept of Information Literacy

First discussed in the U.S. in 1974 in response to the rapidly increasing amount of information and the complexities of doing search

Paul Zurkowski, president of Information Industry Association introduced the concept

“to be information literate, a person must be able to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.”

- Final Report of American Library Association Presidential Committee on Information Literacy, 1989. p.1.

Key skills

Recognizing the need for information

Can find and evaluate information

Can think critically to synthesize and assimilate information

Can communicate information effectively

Comfortable using the necessary tools and technologies

Understands and applies ethical principles

Models of Information Literacy

SCONUL’s Seven (7) Pillars of Information Literacy

Eisenberg and Berkowitz’s Big 6 Model

IFLA’s Empowering 8

The Big 6 Model

Task definition

Information seeking strategies

Location and access

Use of Information

Synthesis

Evaluation

IFLA’s Empowering 8 ModelIdentify

Explore

Select

Organize

Create

Present

Assess

Apply

IL and other literacy

Visual literacy

Media literacy

Computer literacy

Digital literacy

Network literacy

Visual literacy

“to understand and use images, including the ability to think, learn and express oneself in terms of images” [Braden & Hortin, 1982]

Ability to understand and use visual images in our daily lives

Media literacyThe ability to use various media to access, analyze and produce information for specific outcomes

A media literate person can decode, evaluate, analyze and produce both print and electronic media

Recognize the influence of television, film, radio, recorded music, newspapers, and other media

Computer literacy

Knowing/understanding how to use a PC

The ability to create and manipulate documents and data via word processing, spreadsheets, databases and other software applications

It is NOT about the ability to write computer programs

Digital literacy

The ability to understand and use information in multiple formats from a wide range of sources when it is presented via computers or other digital technology as cellphones

Network literacy

An understanding of the systems by which networked information is generated, managed and made available

Information Literacy Standards

Focus on implementing concepts of IL across the curriculum

Competency standards that include performance indicators and outcomes based on the acknowledged definition of being information literate, i.e.– ACRL’s Information Literacy Competency Standards for

Higher Education

– AASL’s Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning

Information Literacy Instruction (ILI)

Stand alone courses or classes

Online tutorials

Workbooks

Course-related instruction

Course-integrated instruction

IL from the Library

Online tutorials

Guides and how to’s

Guides to citing sources

Typical modules of instruction that meet ACRL Competency Standards

Choosing and deciding on a topicIdentification of different types of information sourcesUse of Online Catalog (tutorials on how to use OPAC)How to search databases to find articlesKeyword vs. controlled vocabulary searchingComplex search instructionsAcknowledging and Citing sources properlyInternet search engines (Google NOT!)Evaluating information sourcesWhat is plagiarism?

No more “one shot” ILI classes

Provide for a variety of approaches to delivering ILI

Make use of web-based resources that are accessible 24/7

Develop free standing IL courses that covers multiple sessions for in-depth exploration and learning

Web 2.0and

Library 2.0

WEB 2.0the network as platform

software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it

Thrives on the "architecture of participation"

-- [Tim O’Reilly 2006]

WEB 2.0“The phrase Web 2.0 was created by O'Reilly Media to refer to a supposed second generation of Internet-based services that let people collaborate and share information online in a new way—such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies…” [Wikipedia 2006]

Web 2.0 tools

Blogs

RSS feeds

Wikis

Podcasts and podcasting

Social bookmarking

Social networking

Tagging

Blogs

Short for web log

an online journal where information (not only text, but also audio, photographs and video) is posted on a regular basis and appears in chronological order

Way to share one’s thoughts to the world

RSS feeds

Stands for Really Simple Syndication

Provides the glue that links us to the content we want to read

"feed," "web feed," or "channel," containing either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text

often used by bloggers to alert users to new postings

wikistype of website that allows collaborative creating, editing and storage of content by a group of users

ideal for specific projects and collaborative knowledge sharing, especially if group members are in more than one location

Wikipedia – most well known wiki; free online encyclopedia

Podcasts

Derived from the terms iPod and broadcast

a collection of digital media files distributed over the Internet, often using syndication feeds, for playback on portable media players and personal computers

Social bookmarking

a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages with the help of metadata – [wikipedia]

Can be both public and private

Del.icio.us, CiteULike, SlideShare

Social networks

metaphor to connote complex sets of relationships between members of social systems at all scales, from interpersonal to international – [wikipedia]

MySpace, MyMultiply, Friendster, Ning, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, LibraryThing

Library 2.0 in the framework of Web 2.0

Making use of web 2.0 tools to market and promote library services

Give emphasis on user control, radical trust, flexibility and user autonomy

Work on real time and asynchronous communication

Use social networking sites and multi-media application

Library 2.0incorporating aspects of Web 2.0 into the library’s service delivery models

making the library’s space (virtual and physical) more interactive, collaborative, and driven by community needs.

The basic drive is to get people back into the library by making the library relevant to what they want and need in their daily lives [Cohen 2006]

Library 2.0 is about…

Creating experiences for users

Providing a meeting place

Being human – understanding users and getting closer to the user

User generated content

Radical trust

Recognizing staff competence

Community of users and staff

Fichter, Darlene. “Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and Radical Trust: A First Take.” Blog on the Side. <http://library2.usask.ca/~fichter/blog_on_the_side/2006/04/web-2.html>.

Library 2.0 tools: blogs

Help to develop writing skills, encourage creation of communities and reflections Can be used in teaching with student contents being collected into the teachers aggregatorsKeeping a blog as a way of recording progress and managing timeCan be used to build up evidence and gather opinions from peers or instructors

Library 2.0 tools: RSS feeds

Feeds can allow students and researchers to subscribe to regular content from news services

Students can create their own information world

Library 2.0 tools: wikis

No preventing its use

A good starting point for research

Encourage group work and peer review

A good way to introduce how easy it is to be posting information on the web

Library 2.0 tools: podcasts

Can be used for library instructions, especially for distance learners

Can be effective in accommodating school performances

Allows time shifting and can be used in non-conventional learning set-ups

Library 2.0 tools: social bookmarking

Can be used as a research tool to help students organize materials they find and bookmark

Assists in referencing and encourages tagging

Aids in sharing resources

Sharing/organizing in LibraryThing

“bookmarks” in del.icio.us

Library 2.0 tools: social networking

Venues for students to explore collaborative research projects

Can be used to organize and present class content

Tagging can become part of critical thinking, creating links which involves evaluation, categorizing and formulating keywords

Library News on Flickr

Library Instruction on YouTube

Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and IL

Helps in connecting the library with the Net generation

Provide for new tools to enhance delivery of library service

This is a world of perpetual Beta – a work in progress, providing the need to do further experiments and explorations

think about instruction…

- ILI is integrated across the curriculum and into campus educational opportunities outside the classroom

- The library serves as an instructional center on campus and serves as the hub for campus-wide efforts of helping students acquire information skills

Librarian 2.0

• Thoroughly aware of the needs of the Net Generation

• Gives 2.0 tools a try to connect to this generation

• Explains how information is created and communicated and help students develop a sense of context when using information

• Encourages critical thinking