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Information Literacy and
Library 2.0
ELVIRA B. LAPUZ
[email protected]
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 Model
Identify
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 literacy
The 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 topic
Identification of different types of information sources
Use of Online Catalog (tutorials on how to use OPAC)
How to search databases to find articles
Keyword vs. controlled vocabulary searching
Complex search instructions
Acknowledging and Citing sources properly
Internet search engines (Google NOT!)
Evaluating information sources
What 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 2.0
and
Library 2.0
WEB 2.0
the 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
wikis
type 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 2.0
incorporating 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
aggregators
Keeping a blog as a way of recording
progress and managing time
Can 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