Having recently attended my first meeting of the Scottish Information Literacy – Community of Practice, I was asked to prepare a short post for the blog. I currently work for a land-based HEI as a campus librarian; but also have experience of working in public, school, schools library services and FE libraries.
At the moment our library offers information literacy support via instructional guides with one to one drop-in sessions that take place in the library computer suite. My involvement with the CoP is aspirational, in that as an individual delivering information literacy support within a library context, I would like to work towards models/ guidelines or to a standard that has been identified as ‘best practice’ in terms of information literacy delivery.
Having read the ‘Digital participation: a national framework for local action’ (The Scottish Government, 2014), and ‘Spreading the benefits of digital participation’ (The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2014) reports; I can see that there are opportunities for library staff within my organisation to potentially deliver clinics/ drop-in sessions on themed aspects of digital literacy e.g. (1) assistance with online job applications (2) coding and website creation (3) videoconferencing, to support the digital participation initiatives.
I have done some research in to current provision of IL programmes within the university context, and have identified the following as examples of ‘good practice’ within the HE sector that are aspirational for me, in developing our own information literacy online tutorials:
Imperial College London:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/library/subjectsandsupport/tutorials
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh:
http://www.qmu.ac.uk/lb/FI_StudySkills_InteractiveTutorials_UsingLibraryResources.htm
University of Leeds:
http://library.leeds.ac.uk/skills-online-tutorials
University of Southampton:
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/library/infoskills/tutorials.html
If you have identified any examples of ‘best practice’ in HE information literacy online tutorials – please get in touch.
Originally added by Karen Garnett