I just got back from the wonderful Augustana Information Literacy Workshop held at the Augustana campus of the University of Alberta in Camrose, Canada. There were three great things about the event for me:http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
Entrance to the library at Augustana with poster of previous workshops.
1) I got to meet Bill Johnston and Sheila Webber (Sheila's well-known IL Weblog), the research team from Britain who conducted a major phenomenographic study of how UK academics understand information literacy and information literacy pedagogy.
Sheila Webber
2) I learned a lot from Bill and Sheila's discussion of what they call the "information literate university." In the morning they outlined this concept and introduced the idea of information literacy as a discipline (read their article cited below for more information), and then in the afternoon they had the attendees map our own institutions' progress in moving from embryonic, or intermediate information literacy programming towards becoming an information literate university.
Bill Johnston told the group we need to "Think Big."
3) The third thing that made the Augustana Workshop so wonderful was the thoughtful arrangements of Nancy Goebel and all the staff at Augustana. Aside from just hosting the workshop each year (a major contribution to the information literacy scholarly conversation), they were so incredibly welcoming and made everything really easy. One small example of their thoughtfulness was the cookie I was given as I checked into my hotel that had the workshop information wrapped around it! A tasty way to convey workshop details! Go Augustana.
Johnston, B. and Webber, S. (2005). As we may think: Information literacy as a discipline for the information age. Reserach Strategies, 20(3), 108-121.
Webber, S. and Johnston, B. (2006). Working towards the information literate university. In G. Walton and A. Pope (Eds.), Information literacy: Recognizing the need. Oxford: Chandos, pp. 47-58.
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