Leading Change: Developing Information Literacy Frameworks for Students and Library Staff

Greta Friggens & Lisa White

Information

literacy

framework

for students

Using Library Resources Effectively

Core Skills

Skill Can I do this? Find out moreCompare and contrast information in a textbook and an encyclopedia

Compare information in books, newspapers, magazines and academic journals

Identify what plagiarism is and how to avoid it

Correctly reference key information resources

Identify the principles of referencing

Explain how Turnitin can help to improve your own work

Be aware of the different modes of access to many Library resources, including accessing from mobile devices

Using Library Resources Effectively

Core Skills

Compare information in books, newspapers, magazines and academic journals

I wonder what

people

thought about

punks in the

1970s?Books

Newspapers

MagazinesAcademic journals

If you wanted to find out, which sources do you think it would be most useful to look at?

Newspapers are especially useful for contemporary public opinion

Reveal the answer

Punks CC agogo, Flickr

Using Library Resources Effectively

Core Skills

The Information Landscape will help you to understand what kind of information each of these contain.

Compare information in books, newspapers, magazines and academic journals

What did the project change?

From guidance documentation

Interactive learning tool

Benefiting

StudentsAcademic colleagues

Library staff

• Self-directed study• PDP • Distance learners• Collaborative partners

• Link to /embed within Moodle• Tailor information to suit subject specialisms

• At partner institutions• Enquiry desk staff• Faculty Librarians• Developed into an information literacy framework for library staff

How did we take this forward?

Expectation that students will develop IL skills, so library staff should be skilled too

Adapt the student framework to suit library staff

Identify skills sessions for different groups of staff to support the IL frameworkIn the Navy CC Rooners, Flickr

Staff Development Framework

New programme of eventsFocused library skills sessions

Development plans

HMS Victory CC Wunderboy, Flickr

Move to mandatory sessionsFeedback and engagement

Information literacy framework

Supporting staff in secondments and new roles

Information literacy framework for library staff

8 focused skills sessions

Enquiries staff• Using the Internet Successfully•The Reference Enquiry – What do our users really want?• Using Google Scholar and Key Databases Effectively

All Library Staff• The Wiki Way• The Library Website• Using the Library• Beyond Books• Using Key Library Resources Effectively

Developed directly from grouping the skills on the framework

Session Title:

Presenters:

Who the session is aimed at:

Maximum number of participants:

Outline of session:

The aims of the session are:

Learning outcomes:

Pre-session preparation:

Notes for presenters:

Evaluation

Did they achieve aims and learning outcomes? Increasing:

knowledge confidence engagement

HMS Vernon figurehead John Churchill figurehead

Its always amazing to

see how sessions turn

up things one has

never noticed before!

Where are we now?Programme has evolved – now have:Suite of library IL skills sessionsSuite of library update sessions Plus Library Information BriefingsAnnually review our programme – much change e.g. RFID, digital literacy ...Measuring impact

... and what about the student framework?

Using it – taking elements in to the classroom and segmenting for the VLEUpdating and developing it in light of many changes in UoP’s library serviceBorrowed by others to adapt for VLEDevelop for mobile accessibility

Vintage mobile cinema takes a tour of the South West. From BBC Cornwall website

How can we spread the word?

Breitling wing-walker Bi-plane at Rhyl Airshow 2011,

Jasper180969 CC Flickr

Friggens, Greta and White, Lisa. (2012). Leading change: developing information literacy frameworks for students and library staff. In: The road to information literacy. IFLA publications (157). De Gruyter Saur, The Hague, pp. 63-79.

Tops tips for a successful project1. Make your project

fit with library/ institutional

strategic aims...

“To develop information literate graduates well able to exploit information for employment and citizenship as well as academic work”

2. Acquire support from your line manager

3. What will the project change?

Add value to

the student

experience

6. Collaborate with immediate colleagues and beyond

A boat doesn’t go forward if each person is rowing their own way, Swahili proverb

7. Sell it! Jingshen – Mandarin word for

spirit and vivacity

Work with those you can!

5. Project management – take it seriously

Be the change you wish to see in the

world, Ghandi

4. Will it impact positively on other processes?

If you have any questions,

please ask!

Alternatively contact us

greta.friggens@port.ac.uk

lisa.white@port.ac.uk