Comments on: Information Literati http://meghanecclestone.com/2009/05/23/information-literati/ Keepin it real in Library Land Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:35:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mjecclestone http://meghanecclestone.com/2009/05/23/information-literati/#comment-232 Tue, 26 May 2009 22:02:19 +0000 http://meghanecclestone.com/?p=170#comment-232 Hi Bruce,
One interesting observation for the report I mentioned is that students – basically – find IL kinda, sorta, not really helpful. The one-off workshops I will provide to students will probably do little more than familiarize themselves with the first few webpages of the library’s catalogue, and give them links to our research guides.
I think it’s important to compliment these seminars with rich, customized, multimedia digital spaces for students, that are themselves IL tools – As Cynthia Archer said in the TRY Roundtable, “Anytime, anywhere”… or something like that. It goes for IL too.

]]> By: Bruce Harpham http://meghanecclestone.com/2009/05/23/information-literati/#comment-226 Mon, 25 May 2009 03:32:28 +0000 http://meghanecclestone.com/?p=170#comment-226 A thoughtful post on a vital topic for librarians. I wonder if one way to position IL* to clients is to focus on process; moving from “I’m confused and lost!” to “I know enough to get moving on this topic.” The first level could be reference works and then go deeper as needed. Getting faculty support for IL might also help with attention (maybe give a small bonus mark for participating in an IL session or make IL an element of one assignment?).

* I wonder if “information literacy” is a good way to make this label this when we are facing the client. Stephen Abram observed in his presentation at the Web 2.You conference that this term forces people to admit they don’t know something and that is a difficult place to start from. Implying that university students are illiterate in this set of skills pose an engagement problem.

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