[DSIG] More SL library things

[cashe at tulsacc.edu]

Passing this along in case there is any interest:


Forthcoming  discussions at the Centre for Information Literacy Research

** These will be held on the _Infolit iSchool_ island, devoted to
information literacy, information management and inquiry-based learning,
and part of the University of Sheffield (UoS)***

(Updated 8 August 2011)

So far the following discussions/ presentations are planned (each lasting
an hour)

************ Events in 2011****************

UNESCO Media and Information Literacy indicators
Wednesday 17th August 2011
12 noon SL time (see http://tinyurl.com/3eqzyov for times elsewhere)

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/129/242/22/

Sheila Yoshikawa will give feedback from a meeting she attended in Puerto
Rico on 11 August. This focus of the meeting was discussing draft
international indicators for Media and Information Literacy. A short report
on an earlier meeting is given here:
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=30968&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html


Sheila will also give a short report on the activities of the IFLA Section
on Information Literacy (of which she is a member)
http://www.ifla.org/en/information-literacy


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Journal Club

Wednesday 31 August 2011
12 noon SL time (see http://tinyurl.com/3e6vzve for times elsewhere)

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/106/208/30/

Led by Loreena Sandalwood
We will be discussing:
Li, P. (2011). "Science Information Literacy Tutorials and Pedagogy."
Evidence Based Library And Information Practice, 6(2), 5-18. Retrieved from
http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/article/view/9480/8128

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Look out for the  late summer programme coming out soon!
In the meantime, please enjoy the exhibits etc. on Infolit iSchool

 *** "What  I learned at the conference..." - if more people are willing to
share their experiences of RL conferences that others can't attend, that
would be nice e.g. LOEX (USA), WILU (Canada), LILAC (UK). Volunteers
welcome!