[Asis-l] Information Literacy Weblog

[S.Webber]

If you are interested in Information Literacy (however you define 
it!) we hope you will like the Information Literacy Weblog, run 
by Sheila Webber, Stuart Boon (both Sheffield University 
Department of Information Studies, UK) and Bill Johnston 
(University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland) at 
http://ciquest.shef.ac.uk/infolit/

There are about 3-5 entries added per week, which:
- Report on information literacy events (what happened, any 
useful links etc.)
- Alert you to new or changed information literacy resources 
(websites, books, journal articles etc.)
- Tell you about forthcoming events
- Provide commentary or opinion 
- Tell you what’s happening in our own information literacy 
project

As you will see from the blog, the emphasis is on the first three 
categories at the moment – we are aiming to provide *useful* 
information from around the world as well as give some food for 
thought. The latest entries include 
- several reports on information literacy happenings at the IFLA 
conference in Berlin;
- announcements of a teleconference on health information 
literacy from the MLA and a conference in Georgia;
- details of a new online literature review on the topic.

The blog started four months ago and was officially launched by 
Dr Alan Bundy (information literacy pioneer from the University 
of South Australia), at the eLit conference in Glasgow. There is 
a basic search function and also (if you scroll down the page) a 
list of categories to browse.

There is a “Comment” feature. We also welcome guest 
contributions (we’ve had three so far and hope for more – just 
email me (s.webber at shef.ac.uk) or Stuart 
(s.j.boon at shef.ac.uk) 

Sheila
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Sheila Webber, Lecturer, Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.
Email s.webber at sheffield.ac.uk
Tel. (0044) 0114 222 2641
Fax 0114 278 0300
The Information Literacy Place: http://dis.shef.ac.uk/literacy/
... and now the Weblog! http://ciquest.shef.ac.uk/infolit/