Day 1: ALIA Access Conference (Brisbane)

Information literacy with Christine Bruce:

• Shift of focus from libraries to a much more global scale
• How do we make it relevant?
• How can we bring transformative power of information use to peoples lives? (Pat Breivik) Empowering!

Experts on information literacy:

Dr Lana W Jackman www.infolit.org – paradox don’t assume that all learners have access. What about the digital divide?

Patricia Senn Breivik – peoples need for abilities that empower them

Diljiit Singh – no paradox we need information literacy and web 2.0 to be effective in this world

Lin Ching Chen (Jean Chen) – how can we harness Web 2.0. We have a responsibility.

Shelia Webber (Uni of Sheffield) – Web 2.0 information literacy skills important.

Andrew Whitworth - knowledge never static; text is dynamic in Web 2.0

Sharon Weiner (Purdue Uni) – not a paradox. Need Web 2.0 to teach and learn about information literacy.

David Loertscher (SLIS) - power of Web 2.0 to build collective knowledge. Tools and power.

Mandy Lupton – Web 2.0 making it possible to learn through the process of content creation. Work collaboratively through using/creating info

Mary M Somerville - Web 2.0 makes it possible to work with and transform understanding of different cultures

Dr Hilary Hughes – novel info sources & learning opportunities; provocation to explore, experiment, evaluate and evolve with developing technologies

Ross Todd – focus on user and content creation

Clarence Maybee – a future with a different understanding of knowledge and making

Susie Andretta – transliteracy across different platforms; transliteracy – transport abilities across different media; what a librarians doing; how do we create the spaces/places that allow people to develop transliteracy skills

Annemaree Lloyd – Web2.0 changes the way we interact with information

Louise Limberg - material/physical aspects how to do help people to understand different media (virtual v. physical information)

Christine Bruce

• We need to think differently about information literacy? How can we support it? What is the transformative nature of information literacy?
• People work differently with information in a Web2.0 environment.
• Our role is to provide environments that help people to become information literate

From the floor

• give people the tools and a little bit of training and they will create content and engage with information
• web2.0 tribal – cliques with gate-keepers