Welcome
Sponsors
Conference reports
Conference themes
Conference programme
Keynote speakers
Welcome
Lilac 2007 took place from 26th - 28th March 2007 at Manchester Metropolitan University. Nearly 200 delegates from around the world took part in a very lively conference, embracing new ideas and fresh challenges for Information Literacy in 2007. This website collects together, presentations, papers and information about the conference.
“I must also congratulate the organising committee on yet another truly excellent conference. You should all be really proud of the significant achievement in establishing LILAC as a major annual event in such a short space of time – the levels of participation, quality of keynotes and standard of contributions mark it out among UK professional gatherings and I can’t think of another conference which has such a buzz of enthusiasm throughout the three days. It will definitely continue to be a regular fixture in my diary. So, well done all round!” Delegate feedback, 2007
Sponsors
Lilac could not take place were it not for the participation of our conference sponsors who make a valuable contribution to the content and themes of the event. Our thanks go to: Ebsco, IBSS, 2CQR, Swets, Ex Libris (UK) Ltd, Ovid, Office Depot, AneataPrint, Edina, RefWorks (CSA), CABI, Emerald Insight, Interwrite Learning, ALISS and Lancashire Tea.
Conference report
Linda McDonald received sponsorship to attend Lilac 2007. Linda's conference report [pdf] is now available.
Conference themes
Recognising the need
Advocacy, marketing and promotion
Practical approaches to Information Literacy
Information Literacy and citizenship
New areas for practice and research
Ethical use of information
Conference programme
Monday 26th March:
10.30-11.30am Pre-conference workshop 1: Writing articles for publication - post conference Wiki
11:30-12:30pm Pre-conference workshop 2: Little e-learners
11-1pm Registration and coffee and tea available
12-1.30pm Lunch available
1.30-1.40pm Welcome and introduction from the Conference committee
1.40-1.55pm Welcome and introduction to Manchester Metropolitan University, Vice Chancellor
2.00-3.00pm Keynote speaker – Ross Todd
3.00-3.10pm: RefWorks
3.10-3.40pm Coffee & tea
3.40-5.10pm Parallel Session 1 (long papers and demonstrations)
7.00-11.00pm Networking evening at Urbis
Tuesday 27th March:
9am Registration. Coffee and tea available.
9.20-9.35am Welcome and introduction for day delegates
9.40-10.40am Parallel session 2 (short papers & demonstrations)
10.40-11.10am Coffee & tea
11.15–12.45pm Parallel session 3 (long papers and demonstrations)
12.45-1.45pm Lunch
1.50-2.00pm OVID
2-3pm Keynote Speaker 2: Muir Gray
3-3.10pm Edina
3.10-3.40pm Coffee & tea
3.40-5.10pm Parallel Session 4 (short papers)
7-12am Conference dinner and dance at Manchester Town Hall After dinner speaker: Caroline Williams Executive Director of Intute
Wednesday 28th March:
9am Registration. Coffee, tea available
9.10-9.35am: Parallel session 5 (short papers)
9.40–10.40am Keynote Speaker 3: Christine Bruce
10.50-11.10pm LolliPop launch
11.10-11.40am Coffee & tea (Posters)
11:40-11:50am Ebsco
11.50-12.50pm Keynote Speaker 4: John Dolan
12.50–1.10pm Round up and close by conference committee
Keynote speakers
Keynote speaker biographies, photographs and presentations are detailed below:
Christine Bruce
Information literacy models: from experience to practice: PowerPoint presentation
Christine Bruce is Associate Professor and Assistant Dean, Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Information Technology at QUT, Brisbane, Australia. She developed the relational model for information literacy education, and has extensive interests in higher education teaching and learning.
Statement of Research Interests & Experience:
My long-term research concerns revolve around the perceptual worlds of information and technology users, including learning in the higher education context. This has led me into several different research areas, including:
• Information literacy
• IT learners’ experience of critical concepts
• Postgraduate study and supervision
• Learning to program
• IT researchers’ interpretation of their territory
Currently my main foci are around information literacy education in community as well as formal learning contexts. My research team is involved with investigating and developing models concerned with areas such as:
• How students learn to search the internet
• Virtual communities for the disabled
• International students use of online information
• The relationship between information literacy and learning
• Psychological aspects of the digital divide
• Ethical decision making amongst IT professionals
I have been invited to address conferences on information literacy and information literacy education in Hong Kong, The United Arab Emirates, Sweden, New Zealand, the United States, FInland and Australia. In 2002 I participated in and contributed two white papers to the Information Literacy Meeting of Experts, convened in Prague by UNESCO, the National Forum for Information Literacy and the US National Commission for Library and Information Science. I have published over 100 scholarly works (link to a PDF list of sample publications).
John Dolan OBE
Head of Library Policy at the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
No time to lose...one literacy for all. PowerPoint presentation
John Dolan is the Head of Library Policy at the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. He leads on developing future policy and longer term strategy for libraries. The MLA is the lead strategic agency for museums, libraries and archives. It is part of the wider MLA Partnership, working with the nine regional agencies to improve people’s lives by building knowledge, supporting learning, inspiring creativity and celebrating identity. The Partnership acts collectively for the benefit of the sector and the public, leading the transformation of museums, libraries and archives for the future.
From 1990 John worked in Birmingham. He became Head of Birmingham Central Library in 1993 and in 2001 became the Head of Birmingham Libraries. Latterly in Birmingham he was also responsible for Early Years and Childcare, Family Learning, the Youth Service and Adult Education. Previously he had worked in St Helens running Library, Archive and Museum services and in Manchester with a focus on community libraries and service innovation. John has been an active member of many working groups and national initiatives. In 1997 he was project leader for the development of the national strategy that became The People’s Network, leading to the national programme for Internet provision in every UK library. John was awarded the OBE in 1999 for services to libraries.
Sir J A Muir Gray, CBE, DSc, MD, FRCP, FRCPSGlas, FFPH, FCILIP
Lilac 2007 PowerPoint presentation
Muir Gray is Programmes Director of the UK National Screening Programme, and also Director of Clinical Knowledge, Process and Safety for the National Programme for IT, responsible for the National Library for Health and the National Knowledge Service, reflecting his principal interests in recent years in screening and knowledge management.
He has worked in public health for 25 years. In his previous post as Director of Research and Development for Anglia and Oxford Region, he was in a position to support the UK Cochrane Centre in its early days, and to set up the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine. In Oxford he is fortunate in being able to work with groups which have an interest in informed decision-making and many different aspects of communication with patients.
As Programmes Director of the UK National Screening Committee, Dr Muir Gray has identified informed choice as one of the most important issues for people involved in screening in the 21st century. The Queen appointed him as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1998 for his work on the Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Programmes.
The National Library for Health will organise the best current knowledge and the National Knowledge service will deliver it to clinicians and patients wherever and whenever they need it.
Dr Muir Gray is the author of Evidence-Based Healthcare and joint author of The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice. His most recent book is The Resourceful Patient.
He was knighted in 2005 for the development of the Fetal, Maternal and Child Screening Programme and the creation of the National Knowledge Service and the National Library for Health.
You can find out more about his interests on the Sounds Healthy website.
Ross Todd
If information literacy is the solution, what is the problem? If information literacy is the problem, what is the solution? PowerPoint presentation
Dr Ross Todd is associate professor in the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He is Director of Research in the Center for International scholarship in School Libraries, at Rutgers University. His primary teaching and research interests focus on adolescent information seeking and use, and how students learn through using information. The research is multi-faceted, and includes: understanding how children learn and build new knowledge from information; how school librarians and classroom teachers can more effectively empower student learning; and how the development of information and critical literacies can foster meaningful learning . He has published more than 120 papers and book chapters and has been an invited speaker at many international conferences, most recently in Hong Kong, Netherlands, Philippines, Croatia and Australia.
Find out more about Ross from the Reutgers state University of New Jersey website.
