Thoughts from ECIL 2015

Summing presented at the end of European Conference on Information Literacy ECIL2015 on 22nd October 2015

Formation

Thoughts
from ECIL
2015
Sheila Webber
Tallinn, October 2015

# Literacy #
• Constructive discussion about Information Literacy and
its meaning (rather than obsession about getting one
definition)
– Also discussion on other key concepts like “evaluation” or
“authority” emerged in different sessions
• Start of more deliberate interaction with Media Literacy
community – also helps to highlight IL’s contribution and
difference
• Variety of perspectives on what IL, information and
other literacies (digital, health, visual …) mean in theory
and practice
Sheila Webber, 2015# indicates truncation of any number of characters!

Themes old and new
• Still practical examples and ideas about teaching
information literacy
• Seemed to be more about IL outside formal education &
more focus on populations who weren’t
students/teachers e.g.
– Citizenship, rights, ethics
– Older people
• Sustainability/ Green focus was a good thread to get
one thinking more broadly (and to debate: how
much/little can IL contribute?)
• I find mix of research and practice valuable and like the
placing of the doctoral forum within the conference
Sheila Webber, 2015

Parterships, networks, international
connections
• As would hope: exchange of practice
• Network replicating research in different countries –
example of paper vs. electronic preferences research
• Presentations springing out of connections made at
previous ECIL conferences
• “Local” initiatives (from ACRL framework to a specific
teaching intervention to PhD research) getting
international perspectives
– Could we exploit this international aspect further?
Sheila Webber, 2015

Sheila Webber
s.webber@shef.ac.uk
Twitter & SL: Sheila Yoshikawa
http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/
http://www.slideshare.net/sheilawebber/
Orcid ID 0000-0002-2280-9519
Photo by Sheila Webber: Kumu, Tallinn, 2011

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