1. From local to global: sharing
good practice in Information
Literacy
Nancy Graham, Ella Mitchell, Jane Secker, Darren
Flynn and Siobhan Burke
LILAC – 24th
April 2014

2. Why share Information Literacy
resources via a CoP?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ben_grey/4582294721/

4. Librarians as OER advocates
• Leading by example
• Gaining new expertise by adapting and sharing our
own materials
• Builds on core librarian skills: licensing, copyright,
finding quality resources (information literacy)
• Highly established profession with strong networks

5. OER Research Hub Survey
• Run in November/December 2013 by Dr Beck Pitt
from the OER Research Hub
• Over 300 librarian respondents
• Headline statistics…
http://oerresearchhub.org/2014/02/07/survey-results-libra

6. Top three challenges for using OER
• Knowing where to find resources
• Finding resources of sufficiently high quality
• Finding suitable resources in my subject area
Other considerations:
• Not having enough time to look
• Technology problems
• Finding up to date resources

7. Top three reasons for selecting one
particular OER over another
• The resource being created or uploaded by a
reputable/trusted institution or person
• The resource being relevant to my particular interests/needs
• The resource having a Creative Commons license
Other considerations:
• Evidence of popularity
The being recently created
Having previously used this resource successfully
Lots of detail of how to use the resource, learning objectives etc.
Easy to download

8. Top three purposes for using OER in
context of Librarian role
• To help find available content for learning, teaching
or training
• To get new ideas and inspiration
• To enhance respondent's professional development
Other consideration:
• To stay up to date in a topic area
• Broaden resources available to my users/supplement existing
resources
• To broaden my teaching methods

9. How can we make this happen?
• Developing online communities/a community of
practice?
▫ Building librarian OER advocacy role?
▫ Online activities to encourage participation/contribution
▫ Comms channels?
▫ Other CoP functions
▫ Face to face events?
▫ Support from international organisations?

10. Feedback
• In Finland: seminar in sharing best practices - doubts
about collecting material in one place as don't keep
up to date. Sharing ideas is useful
• New Zealand - online hub for IL. Academics want a
collection of IL resources to pick and choose. But
should it be open access or just one institution?
• Czech Republic - IL group share resources and tips.
Need to update materials regularly - time consuming

11. CoPILOT Committee
• Sub-group of CILIP IL Group
• Set up in November 2012
• Aim: to support UK librarians in sharing openly
• Two events at University of Surrey and Glasgow Caledonian
University
Get involved!
• Mailing list IL-OERS@jiscmail.ac.uk
• Twitter: @CoPILOT2013
• Website:
http://www.cilip.org.uk/information-literacy-group/about/copilo

12. Where next?
•More training events for 2014/2015
•Work on the online CoP
•Various conferences including OER14, HEA
conference, Library Instruction of the West, Portland,
July

14. Jorum’s Information and Digital
Literacy Skills collection

15. Improving discoverability and
description:

17. http://www.wsis-community.org/pg/groups/585111/informati

18. Group discussion
• If you are not sharing, why not?
• What are the barriers to sharing?
• What support do you need? What would motivate
you to share?

19. If not sharing, why not?

20. Barriers to sharing

21. Support for sharing
• Schools - TES - area for sharing IL? But should we separate this out as
librarians area or use teachers area?
• Too many platforms? People not using existing platforms
• Out of date material on platforms, too large
• Sharing with a local community or same subject domain a benefit
• Skillswise for sharing FE English/maths resources- some IL there.
• Scottish Government resources - shared via a blog
• Signposting exercise - this would be useful
• Support in confidence building, support for the platform, support for
changing your workflows
• Workflows - look at offline practices to model the community - how do
we do this. Person to person, making connections

22. Contact details
• Nancy Graham
▫ nancy.graham@roehampton.ac.uk
▫ @msnancygraham
• Jane Secker
▫ j.secker@lse.ac.uk
▫ @jsecker
• Siobhan Burke
▫ Siobhan.Burke@manchester.ac.uk
• Darren Flynn
▫ DFlynn@dixonsaa.com
http://www.cilip.org.uk/information-literacy-group/about/copilot