Elizabeth Waraksa, 2nd-year CLIR Fellow, just had her revised dissertation accepted for publication. Her book, currently titled Female Figurines from the Mut Precinct: Context and Ritual Function, is forthcoming in the series Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis (www.unifr.ch/dbs/publication_obo.html), published by the Universität Freiburg in Switzerland. The series is dedicated to ancient Near Eastern history and iconography, so is a perfect home for her study of magical female figurines.

Please join me in offering well-deserved congratulations to Elizabeth for her achievement!

Will They Learn What You Teach? A Tool to Assist Successful IL Design
Submitted by Eloisa Gomez Borah

Whether you are designing an IL session for millennials or for a faculty group, you may likely benefit from determining in advance, which of the "Six Frames for Information Literacy Education" to use. Understanding the differences behind the users of each of these frames could increase your effectiveness.

This new tool was devised by Christine Bruce (sky.fit.qut.edu.au/~bruce/ ) of Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and her colleagues. Prof. Bruce recently conducted tandem workshops on this subject in Northern and Southern California, which were attended by librarians from various educational institutions in this state (www.regonline.com/custImages/236697/Workshop%201A.pdf).

To describe the six frames very, very briefly (while it is difficult to pare down hours of the workshop):

1. Users of the Content Frame usually adopt a discipline orientation.
2. Users of the Competency Frame usually adopt a behavioral or performance orientation.
3. Users of the Learning-to-learn Frame usually adopt a constructivist orientation.
4. Users of the Personal Relevance Frame usually adopt an experiential orientation.
5. Users of the Social Impact Frame usually adopt a social reform orientation.
6. Users of the Relational Frame are oriented towards the ways in which learners are aware of IL or specific relevant phenomena associated with IL.

Take any recent IL session you have developed, and find out how your presentation would have differed if you had considered your audience to be users of one of these six differing frames for IL education.

In addition to modeling IL for the frame of one specific student audience, consider that the faculty instructor and/or department administrators may model another frame altogether. To achieve joint goals, your approach may have to be a hybrid of two or more of these frames.

For further reading:
"Six Frames for Information Literacy Education: a conceptual framework for interpreting the relationships between theory and practice," available at www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/italics/vol5-1/pdf/sixframes_final _1.pdf (Published in the peer-reviewed e-journal ITALICS: http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/italics/index.htm) See the list of references, and a chart on page 18, providing a matrix which further explains this concept.

MILEX Conference 2008

The Maryland Information Literacy Exchange (MILEX) will have a conference on Friday, October 24, 2008, from 8:30am to 4:00pm at the Loyola Graduate Center in Timonium, MD. This year’s theme is "How in the world?: Getting Students to Think Critically-- Practical Approaches and Successful Practices." The conference will offer presentations from academic librarians as well as faculty members and will provide an opportunity for a dynamic exchange of ideas and resources. The keynote speaker will be Ken Bain, Ph.D., best-selling author of What the Best College Teachers Do.

Registration is open now until Friday, October 10, 2008. The conference is limited to 100 participants, so early registration is encouraged.

Registration Fees:

• $75 for MILEX members
• $100 for non-members
• $40 for graduate students

The registration fee includes continental breakfast and lunch.

For more information, visit www.milexmd.org/conference08.html.

Call for Chapters: Collaborative Information Literacy Assessments

Editors for a new publication entitled Collaborative Information Literacy Assessments are seeking chapter proposals. This publication is a follow-up to the editors’ previous publications, Information Literacy Collaborations That Work (2007) and Using Technology to Teach Information Literacy (2008). This new publication will examine collaborative assessment strategies and case studies at the course and program level. Chapters must be co-authored by a librarian and a faculty member and should include the following sections:

• Introduction
• Related Literature
• Institutional Context
• Disciplinary Perspective
• Discussion of the Faculty Librarian Collaboration
• Assessment Model
• Examination of Assessment Results
• Impact on Student Learning
• Assessment of the Assessment
• Conclusion

The book will be co-edited by Thomas P. Mackey, Ph.D., Associate Dean at the Center for Distance Learning at Empire State College, SUNY and Trudi E. Jacobson, M.L.S., Head of User Education Programs, University Libraries at the University at Albany, SUNY.

Please send proposals of 1-2 pages to Tom Mackey at Tom.Mackey@esc.edu no later than October 17, 2008. Chapter selections will be made and authors will be notified by November 10, 2008. First drafts of the completed chapters (25-30 pages) will be due on January 30, 2009. Final drafts will be due on April 20, 2009. For more information contact Tom Mackey.

New Global Information Literacy Logo

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and UNESCO jointly sponsored a contest to design an international symbol for information literacy. An international panel of judges reviewed nearly 200 designs from over 100 artists in 36 countries. The winning design was announced this summer at the IFLA Conference in Quebec. For more information about the logo, including details about the artist and the logo’s meaning, visit www.infolitglobal.info/logo/?s=logo.

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