Gregynog Library and Information Conference 2009

All pics by me (this top one cropped and edited). In early June, I went to the annual Gregynog conference for library and IT professionals in Wales, along with some library colleagues. My favourite session was not actually library related, although it fitted in well with a theme on designing new buildings and learning spaces [...]

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LILAC Conference: Day 2: Next Generation Search Engines

On Day 2 of the Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference in Cardiff (see previous blog posts for write ups of earlier sessions, and an explanation of the phrase “information literacy”), I attended a session called Users’ experiences of new generation search interfaces: introducing Ex Libris’s PRIMO search engine at University of East Anglia Library, which [...]

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LILAC Conference: Day 2: Alternate Reality Games

The first session I went to after the morning’s keynote was Help Viola: using an Alternate Reality Game for student induction, run by Rosie Jones and Emily Shields from Manchester Metropolitan University. I had picked this session because I am interested in unusual and innovative ways to teach information and library skills. ARGs (Alternate Reality [...]

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LILAC Conference: Day 2: Patricia Ianuzzi Keynote

Patricia Ianuzzi is a librarian from Las Vegas, and I enjoyed her keynote, which featured references to online gaming and to Las Vegas casinos! She began by giving an overview of information literacy and reports in the US, which I found very useful. These are some of the references she gave: The Spellings Commission on [...]

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LILAC Conference: Day 1: Other Sessions

Jenny Evans & Ruth Harrison (Imperial College, London): 2. 0 much to do: how, when and why should library staff find out about web 2.0, and what does it mean for information literacy? The session was about an idea called 23 Things, which was a list put together by a public library in America to [...]

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LILAC Conference: Day 1: Melissa Highton Keynote

This is a write-up of sessions I attended on the first day of LILAC, the Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference, on Monday 30th March 2009, back in the days before I had a blog. For more information about what information literacy is, see yesterday’s blog post. I have to comment first of all that the [...]

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What is Information Literacy?

I’m a little late blogging about the LILAC Conference, which I attended in Cardiff a month and a half ago, but I didn’t have a blog at the time, having only started this one last week. The LILAC conference is the Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference, it has nothing to do with the flower, or [...]

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