We are happy to announce that some of the authors of the position papers discussed at the Information Literacy Research Seminar 2010 at CoLIS in London have made their papers accessible online, most of them via the Borås Academic Digital Archive.
Together with Professor Limberg’s opening address, six position papers presenting ongoing and future research can be found via the link provided below:
Francke, Helena, Credibility, Materiality, and Mediated Interaction
Huvila, Isto, What about Creating and Organizing?
Limberg, Louise, Information Literacies at the Intersection between Information Seeking and Learning: Contexts and Values
Mackey, Thomas P. & Jacobson, Trudi E., Re-Conceptualizing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy for Social Media
Moring, Camilla, Learning Trajectories: Becoming Information Literate across Practices
Sormunen, Eero, Lehtiö, Leeni & Hongisto, Heidi, Collective Authoring of Wikipedia Articles as a Learning Task in Embedded Information Literacy Instruction
Talja, Sanna, From Teaching Information Literacy to Teaching Information Management?: An Information Practice Model for Teaching and Learning Information Competences
COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR 26-27 JULY 2010
It was presented by Dr Carol van Zijl, the instigator and co-founder of the Southern Africa Library Acquisitions Conference who later started the Library Acquisitions Interest Group (LACIG). She published several articles in library journals, presented papers at national and regional conferences and seminars.
She worked for years in an academic library as a subject librarian, a periodicals librarian and was involved with collection development which led her to choose collection development as the topic for her doctoral thesis completed in 2005. She no longer works in a library she conducts seminars on request because of her interest in research.
It was an interesting and educating seminar for us as librarians. I must say that most of the things which were discussed we did it when doing our study in Library and Information Studies, I can say It was a reminder for us as we were not all collection development librarians who attended the seminar. I will not go into details because it’s too long.
We were reminded what to consider when developing a collection, the criteria when selecting library material, how to evaluate the collection and why evaluation is needed.
Weeding of material, why do we weed, what should we remove / retain and what are the cost of not weeding and there should be a procedure for weeding.
Weeding is a process of removing materials from the shelves to be destroyed, disposed, or relocated to a remote storage facility.
Another presenter was Busi Mbiyo who is currently working as an Acquisitions and Development Collection manager for the South African Library for the Blind.
She shared with us the difficulties they encounter in their library as they only depend on donations and sponsors. They don’t have enough staff members, the whole library has 4 qualified librarians and is difficult to do everything, so they also depend on Grahamstown University students to help them with the processing of books, that is why it takes such a long time because they work during their spare time. She also mentioned that the biggest problem they have is, when they buy a book it has to go to various department before it can reach their users, and sometimes it takes about 3-6 months, and the cost is too high.
The last presenter was Marie Botha a deputy director for collection development at Unisa library. She spoke mainly about development of e-book and how it’s use will be influenced by the reader devices that users have in hand - from iPods to the state of the art cell phones etc. She mentioned that users are exposed to information available electronically and demand in the library increase, and that the collection of printed media will decline because of the changing trends of information dissemination and retrieval.
