This was a keynote based on ANCIL (A New Curriculum for Information Literacy) given at the Business Librarians Association Annual Conference at Leicester on 10th July 2014

1. The new curriculum for information
literacy
Jane Secker, LSE
BLA Conference, 10th July 2014
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2. What is A New Curriculum for Information
Literacy (ANCIL)?
What IS information literacy and how does it
improve the student experience?
What is the librarian’s role?

3. Evolution of ANCIL
Develop a new, revolutionary curriculum
for information literacy in a digital age

4. Evolution of ANCIL
Develop a new, revolutionary curriculum
for information literacy in a digital age
Strategies for implementing the
curriculum and resources to support it

5. Evolution of ANCIL
Understand the needs of undergraduates entering HE over
the coming 5 years
Map the current landscape of information literacy
Develop a practical curriculum and supporting resources
Develop a new, revolutionary curriculum
for information literacy in a digital age

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9. Milestones and deadlines
Literature review/catch up - 6-9th May and ongoing
Best practice review - 6th-13th May and ongoing
Expert consultation: pilot - 13th May
Expert consultation: interviews - 16th-27th May
First draft outline - 8th June
Plan next stage and revise
Expert consultation workshop: during week of 13th-20th June
Final curriculum, evidence toolkit, framework review and
literature review by 8th July

10. The expert consultation
Format and structure of the
curriculum
Timing of the interventions
Teaching style and the method of
delivery
Role of audits and assessment
Marketing and promotion
Key drivers
and barriers to implementation
Considerations around technology
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12. Technology
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13. Project outputs
Curriculum
Expert consultation report
Theoretical background
report
Concept diagrams
Information literacy
definition
Advocacy video
Lesson planning tool
Resource wiki
Institutional audit tools
Implementation strategies
report
Information literacy first aid
model
Rethinking Information
Literacy
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15. What IS information literacy?
How does it improve the student experience?

16. Why does this still matter?
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17. Information literacy is complex

18. Image: ‘Russian Dolls’ by Lachlan Fearnley, CC BY-SA 3.0
Matryoshka metaphor conceived by Florence Dujardin (@afdujardin)
A matter of perspective

19. Information literacy and learning development
Image: ‘Two sides of the same Loonie’ by James
McCaffrey, CC BY 2.0

20. Information literacy and employability
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SA 2.0

21. Information literacy and lifelong learning
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‘CC BY NC-SA 2.0

23. What is the librarian’s role?

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(reproduced by permission of Libraries ACT)
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25. Image credit: Gungahlin Public Library
(reproduced by permission of Libraries ACT)
Image © Gungahlin Public Library
(reproduced by permission of Libraries ACT)

26. “ ... the main gap I am finding is with regards to
critical and holistic thinking. There seems to be
a teach‐to‐test culture which focuses on
circumscribing knowledge into manageable
boxes ... ”
(ANCIL Expert Consultation Report, 2011)

27. Joining up support

28. Embedding in the curriculum

29. Challenging perceptions ….
“… if the teachers, whether they’re school or
university teachers, don’t have the same view
of IL that we do, it’s always going to be [about]
the skills. And the skills are fine but anybody
can teach the skills; it’s teaching the changing
attitude and the different approach that I
think has to come from the teachers.”
(ANCIL Expert Consultation Report, 2011)

30. Credibility and capability

31. Qualifications and staff development

32. Student as partners

33. “What I work with is the information that’s
still inside people’s heads, that’s not yet
structured or fully articulated, that’s the result
of the creative encounter between an
individual and a learning context.”
(The Mongoose Librarian, 2013)

34. Thank you!
j.secker@lse.ac.uk / @jsecker
http://newcurriculum.wordpress.com