"European Conference on Information Literacy, Oct 22-25, 2013"
Conference Report
presented by:
Esther Grassian, Adjunct Lecturer, UCLA Information Studies Department
&
Sheila Webber, Senior Lecturer, School of Information, Sheffield University, UK.
For this program, Esther and Sheila presented their reports on the ECIL conference which they attended in Istanbul, Turkey at the end of October.
Esther began began by providing information on the conference. There were over 350 participants from 59 countries. Keynotes were given by Paul Zurkowski (the man who coined the phrase "information literacy") and Christine Bruce from Queensland University of Technology.
Shiela provided details of the programs she attended. She pointed out that participation from so many parts of th world, the variety of perspectives and the participation of people key to the development of IL showed the fields energy, maturity and relevance.
Esther finished by presenting more indepth info about several of the programs she had attended. These included the Keynote by Paul Zurkowski on Universal Information Literacy.
Andrew Walsh's presentation on "Game-Based learning for information literacy offered some suggestions and examples of how instructors can utilize games and play in IL instruction.
Esther also provided an overview of the workshop she did at the conference. We hope to get her to provide more detailed information about this at a future ACRL-VWIG program.
Thanks to everyone who attended. Both Esther and Sheila made their information available either via notecard or online. Here's the link for Esther's slides:
https://sites.google.com/site/esthergrassian/home/ecil-2013
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