Presentation delivered at the IFLA Information Literacy Satellite Meeting, Limerick, 14 August 2014. Report on project initiated with Katy Wrathall.

1. Information literacy communities
of practice in a converged service
Clare McCluskey
IFLA Satellite Meeting, Limerick
14 August 2014

2. Background
• Converged service
– Library
– ICT
– Media
– Print
• Where does information literacy fit?
• Is Information Learning Services a learning
organisation?

3. Learning organisation
• Staff development based on shared values
(Camille and Wu 2010)
• Learning for both service users and staff
(Bergat and d’Elia 2010)
• Information literacy at core of our learning

4. Information Literacy
• Those in roles focusing on IL need to be as
high priority for IL training as those on
periphery (Pagell and Munoo 2010)
• Users of an information service rarely
distinguish between staff in different roles
(Sult and Evangeliste 2009)

5. Lecture by nist6dh
CC BY-SA 2.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

6. ANCIL
http://newcurriculum.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/ancil_spider_2012.jpg

7. Key points
• Divide between practice-based and wider
learning concepts
– Referencing vs ethics of information use
– Information searching vs evaluation of resources
– Current awareness services vs ongoing learning

8. Acknowledgements
With thanks to Katy Wrathall for initiating the
project and providing the framework within
which it took place.

9. References
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• Camille D. and Wu A. (2010) Strong Beginnings in Academic Libraries: Employee Orientations as a
Start to a Learning Organization. Texas Library Journal, 86 (2), pp.52-54.
• Pagell R.A. and Munoo R. (2010) Information literacy for the information literate: A model and
case study from the Wuhan UNESCO training the trainers in information literacy program.
International Information & Library Review, 42 (2), pp.84-90.
• Secker J. and Coonan E. (2014) A New Curriculum for Information Literacy. Available at:
http://newcurriculum.wordpress.com/ [Accessed: 14 July 2014].
• Sult L. and Evangeliste M. (2009) We Are All Librarians: Training in the Ever Evolving Information
Commons. Reference Librarian, 50 (3), pp.248-258.
• Wenger E. (1998) Communities of Practice : Learning, Meaning, and Identity. 1st pbk. Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press.
• Wrathall K. (2012) Strategies for Implementing A New Curriculum for Information Literacy.
Cambridge, University of Cambridge. Available from:
http://implementingancil.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/55121848/Strategies%20for%20Implementin
g%20ANCIL%20in%20Non-Cambridge%20HEIs%20v3.pdf.