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Information Literacy Symposium
The Graduate Information Literacy Program at the Australian National University and services to higher degree research students: recognition and challenges
Jim Berryman
Australian National University
Dr Jim Berryman is trainer in the Australian National University’s Graduate Information Literacy Program (GILP). A librarian with a background in academic and government libraries, Jim has also tutored at the ANU’s School of Humanities where he received a PhD in Art History in 2005.
Fostering lifelong learning through information literacy education: Exploring conceptions in different disciplines and framing pedagogies for lifelong learning
Sheila Webber and Bill Johnston
University of Sheffield;
University of Strathclyde
Bill Johnston is Senior Lecturer and Assistant Director, Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement, University of Strathclyde, Scotland. He collaborates with academics to develop their courses and pedagogy, and to research and publish on these topics. He is active in information literacy research and teaches the subject in Scotland and Sweden.
Sheila Webber is Senior Lecturer & Director of the Centre for Information Literacy Research in the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, UK, and she is currently also an Academic Fellow of the Centre for Inquiry Based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences (CILASS).
A bunch of IRISs: Teaching of information literacy skills for life long learning
Ilze Jonikis, Jennifer Golding & Michelle Mahoney
University of Western Australia
Ilze is a reference librarian in the Science Library and coordinator of the UWA Library’s Science IRIS programme. Her interest in online learning dates from 2001 when she began contributing to AnTLER, a collaborative online learning project between the Library and the Anthropology & Sociology Discipline. Concern for enabling life long learning has underpinned her information literacy teaching.
Information literacy: Past success and future needs for undergraduate health practitioners
Madeleine Shanahan & Wendy Forrest
RMIT University
Madeleine is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Medical Sciences, RMIT University and in 2007 was awarded with Wendy Forrest who co-authored this paper, an RMIT University Learning and Teaching Fellowship. Madeleine’s current research explores accessibility of professionally relevant information resources to the undergraduate and graduate Medical Radiation Science practitioner.
Developing graduate attributes for lifelong learning – how far have we got?
Barbara de la Harpe & Alex Radloff
RMIT University; Central Queensland University
Barbara de la Harpe is Dean Academic Development in Design and Social Context at RMIT University in which role she provides academic leadership for educational programs, learning and teaching, and academic administration. Her research interests are in student learning, graduate attributes, staff professional development and change management.
Alex Radloff is PVC (Academic Services) at Central Queensland University in which role she provides academic leadership for learning and teaching, and student support. Her research interests are in self-regulated learning, graduate attributes, staff professional development and change management.
Enterprise, empowerment, and higher education: Lifelong learning from the generic vocational skills
Bill Johnston
University of Strathclyde
Bill Johnston is Senior Lecturer and Assistant Director, Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement, University of Strathclyde, Scotland. He collaborates with academics to develop their courses and pedagogy, and to research and publish on these topics. He is active in information literacy research and teaches the subject in Scotland and Sweden.
Information literacy as a framework to foster lifelong learning.
Chrys Gunasekara & Sue Collins
Queensland University of Technology
Sue Collins is a liaison librarian for the Faculty of Business at the Queensland University of Technology (one of 4 across 2 campuses). The team has been working for some time to embed information literacy into Business programs, both undergraduate and post-graduate. In the last 3 years she have been working with Dr Chrys Gunasekara within the School of Management, exploring ways of enhancing the student learning experience by designing discipline-specific information literacy.
Evaluating information literacy and its application to clinical decision making
Cheryl Perrin, Delwar Hossain and Kaye Cumming
University of Southern Queensland
Dr Perrin is a senior lecturer in the Department of Nursing & Midwifery and the International Coordinator of the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Southern Queensland. She teaches into the on campus undergraduate program and external postgraduate nursing programs. She is interested in the development of clinical decision making and leadership in nursing.
Dr Hossain is a Research Fellow at the University of Southern Queensland. He has 26 years of research and teaching experience with an extensive research publication history.
Ms Kaye Cumming is the librarian for the Faculty of Sciences at USQ. Kaye has taught information literacy skills to the nursing students for the past four years.
Reflective Online Searching Skills: an information literacy learning object
Presented by Lynn McAllister
Lynn is a liaison librarian at Queensland University of Technology. She is currently seconded as Senior Project Officer with the Australian ePortfolio Project, an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (previously The Carrick Institute) funded research project due for completion in July 2008. Lynn also works as a lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology at QUT. Lynn's interest in the lifelong learning agenda has developed over several years as a result of community research involving ICT training for migrant groups and senior citizens.
Setting a strategic direction for information literacy at The University of Western Australia
Presented by Pam Barnett
Pam Barnett is a librarian at The University of Western Australia in the Medical and Dental Library. As a mature age student she developed a keen interest in the concept of lifelong learning long before knowing such a term existed. She enjoys working with academics to integrate information literacy into core curricula.
