Exhibit in Second Life

I created a small exhibition with the posters from Sunday evening and a few of the presentations (I just chose a few from different countries/perspectives), in the virtual world, Second Life. You can go there if you have a Second Life avatar, and if you have the Second Life browser installed on your computer. the location is: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/143/187/21/

I did a very quick screencast of the exhibit (apologies for poor pronounciation of people's names!): here it is:


On Thursday 19th I had a session in which I talked about the conference and showed people the exhibition. There were people from several different countries (e.g. Colombia, USA, UK), including one person who had worked on the German version of IFLA Express!

Thanks for the (un) conference

I would like thank (as Secretary of the Section) the perfect organization. It has been possible by the job of our Section’s convenors (Sheila, Leena and Gunilla) and the host supporter (Janet Wamby).
It’s remarkable too the participation as speaker of two members of our Section: Chihfeng and Natalia.

I liked the confluence of three formats: group/individual work, parallel sessions and unconferences.
It was a pity I had to leave the event for attending a meeting with our IFLA Division: I couldn't attend the third parallel session, and unconferences either.

I want to thank too my colleagues in the round table (Eystein and Jennifer) because I speak a more than perfect English.

As I work much better in my native language, I have abstracted (and linked) the working day in ALFARED and linked it from one of my University blog .

Carpe diem.

Andoni

Date for your virtual diaries: session in the virtual world Second Life

There will be a one-hour session in Second Life, the virtual world next Thursday August 19th, at 12 noon Second Life time (this is the same as Pacific time in the USA, see http://tinyurl.com/2wge69r for start time in other countries. Sheila Webber (Sheila Yoshikawa in Second Life) will report back from the World Library and Information (IFLA) main Conference, 11-15 August, and in particular report with material from this pre-conference satellite meeting 8-9th August on Information Literacy: Context Community Culture
The venue is Infolit iSchool, as part of the Centre for Information Literacy Research discussion series: location http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/127/237/21/ - in order to participate you need a SL avatar (you can get one free on the SL website http://secondlife.com/) and need the SL browser installed on your computer (you download it free from that website).

There will be an exhibit of material from this satellite conference to stimulate discussion. You can see here the start Sheila has made on preparing the exhibit (she is standing near the front, and in the sky behind you get a glimpse of a "SCONUL 7 Pillars of Information literacy" build. Please come along in particular if you participated in the satellite event or the main conference, to contribute your views!

Conference brochure available

The 20-page conference brochure, which includes full, informative abstracts of all twelve of the contributed presentations at Information Literacy: Context, community, context, is now online at http://dis.shef.ac.uk/sheila/satellite-brochure.pdf
All the speakers have agreed to also mount their Powerpoints online, so these will be added to this document, which will be published as proceedings next week.

Group E's poster from 8th August

This poster was their response to the question What are the most important contextual factors for information literacy, how can we understand more about them, and what prevents us from understanding more about them?
The group members were Mark Hepworth, Eunyoung Ryu, Liisa Niinikangas, Stefan Benjaminsson, Wendy Holliday

Group F's poster from 8th August

This poster was their response to the question What are the most important contextual factors for information literacy, how can we understand more about them, and what prevents us from understanding more about them?
The group members were Antonio Calderon Rehecheo, Eystein Gullbekk, Jennifer Sigalet.

Group D's poster from 8th August

This poster was their response to the question What are the most important contextual factors for information literacy, how can we understand more about them, and what prevents us from understanding more about them?
The group members wereGunilla Sundstrom, Therese Skagen, Chihfeng Lin, Janet Wamby, Maria Cotera
The top word, on the orange post-it, is "TOOLS"

Group C's poster from 8th August

This poster was their response to the question What are the most important contextual factors for information literacy, how can we understand more about them, and what prevents us from understanding more about them?
The group members were Rumyana Koycheva, Jennifer Ward, Tove Rullestad, Turid Hiberget Nilsen, Eva Hessman.

Group B's poster from August 8th

This poster was their response to the question What are the most important contextual factors for information literacy, how can we understand more about them, and what prevents us from understanding more about them?
The group members were Leena Toivonen, Siobhan Duvigneau, Hilde Westbye, Myrtle Harris, Olle Thegeby, Pia Shekhter.

Poster of Group A from the session on 8th August

This poster was their response to the question What are the most important contextual factors for information literacy, how can we understand more about them, and what prevents us from understanding more about them?
The group members were Maria Carme Torras, Kristen Borse Haralsen, Albert Boekhorst, Heeson Kim, Solveig Kavli.

Thank you for a very well organized conference

Dear colleagues,

I just wanted to say thank you to the organizers for the nice conference! I would also like to say that it was a great pleasure to meet so many devoted colleagues from different places around the world. Thank you all for your contributions!

Kind regards,
Pia Shekhter

Briefing for the Sunday session

You can read here the briefing for the Sunday session at the IFLA pre-conference meeting: http://dis.shef.ac.uk/sheila/briefing-sunday.pdf. The aims were
"To reflect on the context of the people you engage with for information literacy;
"To identify what you do, and do not, know about their context and their information literacy concepts and needs."
By the end of the day, each group produced a poster mapping out contexts and issues for information literacy.
We will put pictures of all six posters on the blog, but in the meantime here is a picture of one group creating their poster.

The event has started!

We have now had the first session of the IFLA Pre-conference satellite organised by the IFLA Information Literacy Section, which took place at the Palace (pictured) in the centre of Gothenburg, Sweden. Undeterred by the rain, we assembled for an active session, reflecting on the context for information literacy, together with a pleasant dinner. There will be more posts (mostly after the event) with material from the sessions.
There are 40 delegates at the event, from 18 different countries! This makes it very interesting, hearing about similarities and differences in people's experiences.

Welcome to the blog

On the left you will find links to the pages with the conference programme and information on how to find the venues