I’ve been thinking a lot about information literacy at late: One of my responsibilities at my new job is to give information literacy workshops to students come the new school year, and while I took the Information Literacy course during school, I’m still utterly terrified. That’s normal, right?
A resource I came across recently is a report from two researchers at the University of Washington, who are doing a comprehensive study of university students’ information seeking behaviours when attempting to undertake research for coursework. The authors published their preliminary findings in a report called, “Finding Context: What Today’s College Students Say about Conducting Research in the Digital Age” and they’ve done a great job of generalizing the challenges students face when they go about writing their papers for school.
nd York University Libraries, which takes place each year at St. Mike’s college at the University of Toronto). The conference’s theme, “New Directions” sought to illustrate the ways in the roles of libraries, library staff, and the delivery of information are changing within and beyond the university library and the academic community which it serves. It was the first year Faculty of Information students were invited to participate – it’s a great networking opportunities for budding librarians and I gained lots of insight about my new career. 
