The Media and Information Literacy Alliance (MILA) is a new initiative, co-sponsored by CILIP and the CILIP Information Literacy Group, aimed at securing greater recognition for information and media ...literacy in society at large. MILA was officially launched during UNESCO's Global MIL Week at the end of October. Here, Secker introduces MILA.
ECIL 2017 Secker, Jane
Journal of information literacy,
12/2017, Volume:
11, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Information about the European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL) that was held in St. Malo in Brittany, France from September 18 to 21, 2017 is offered. The theme of the conference which is ...workplace information literacy is emphasized. Several notable people who took part of the event like Bonnie Chuek, Drew Whitworth and Stephane Goldstein are also highlighted.
Purpose
Librarians and information professionals increasingly need to deal with copyright issues in their work, however evidence suggests that they can lack confidence and often refer queries to a ...dedicated copyright specialist. The purpose of this paper is to explore the professional experiences of copyright of a group of academic librarians in the UK, with a view to devising appropriate copyright education strategies.
Design/methodology/approach
The research was conducted using phenomenography, which is a qualitative approach from education. Data were collected though group interviews to explore the variation of experience. Four categories of description were devised which are placed in an outcome space.
Findings
There were four qualitatively distinct ways that librarians experience copyright in their professional lives, including viewing it as a problem, as complicated, as a known entity and as an opportunity. The variations in experience relate to a variety of factors such as the librarians’ role, ideology, level of experience, context and with whom they might be dealing.
Originality/value
This is the first study of this nature, building on quantitative findings from a multinational survey. It concludes that librarians need to be taught about copyright in a way that acknowledges and addresses the challenges so that they can view it as empowering and as part of wider information literacy initiatives.
The Street Law community is well practiced in designing bespoke activities for particular community groups. Starting with a blank canvas can often be the easier forma. How often do we consider ...inviting our Street Law students to adapt works, games, and materials designed for one purpose or audience (i.e. not Street Law) and transform them into a different format? This paper highlights a case study involving undergraduate law students adapting an openly licensed card game originally designed for use with academic librarians, and using it as a tool to raise awareness with sixth form students about the laws and issues of copyright.
Purpose
Librarians and information professionals increasingly need to deal with copyright issues in their work, however evidence suggests that they can lack confidence and often refer queries to a ...dedicated copyright specialist. The purpose of this paper is to explore the professional experiences of copyright of a group of academic librarians in the UK, with a view to devising appropriate copyright education strategies.
Design/methodology/approach
The research was conducted using phenomenography, which is a qualitative approach from education. Data were collected though group interviews to explore the variation of experience. Four categories of description were devised which are placed in an outcome space.
Findings
There were four qualitatively distinct ways that librarians experience copyright in their professional lives, including viewing it as a problem, as complicated, as a known entity and as an opportunity. The variations in experience relate to a variety of factors such as the librarians’ role, ideology, level of experience, context and with whom they might be dealing.
Originality/value
This is the first study of this nature, building on quantitative findings from a multinational survey. It concludes that librarians need to be taught about copyright in a way that acknowledges and addresses the challenges so that they can view it as empowering and as part of wider information literacy initiatives.
This article by Jane Secker and Maria Bell presents an overview of the challenges of providing copyright training for staff at LSE. The institution does not employ a dedicated copyright officer, but ...uses a range of tactics to ensure academic, administrative and Library staff are made aware of copyright issues. Several training sessions are run throughout the year. LSE have also developed an online course and produce a range of online and printed guides to brief staff. Advice and queries are also dealt with by a number of individuals who have specialist knowledge in areas such as copyright and the internet and copying archival materials.
This study reports the descriptive and inferential statistical findings of a survey of academic reading format preferences and behaviors of 10,293 tertiary students worldwide. The study hypothesized ...that country-based differences in schooling systems, socioeconomic development, culture or other factors might have an influence on preferred formats, print or electronic, for academic reading, as well as the learning engagement behaviors of students. The main findings are that country of origin has little to no relationship with or effect on reading format preferences of university students, and that the broad majority of students worldwide prefer to read academic course materials in print. The majority of participants report better focus and retention of information presented in print formats, and more frequently prefer print for longer texts. Additional demographic and post-hoc analysis suggests that format preference has a small relationship with academic rank. The relationship between task demands, format preferences and reading comprehension are discussed. Additional outcomes and implications for the fields of education, psychology, computer science, information science and human-computer interaction are considered.
In this short article the authors present emerging findings from an exploratory study to examine librarians' experiences of copyright in their professional lives. They build on findings from a survey ...of librarians, information professionals and those in the cultural heritage sector carried out in 2014 (Morrison and Secker, 2015). The survey was largely quantitative, however some of the free text questions suggested that copyright could be a source of fear and anxiety. As Copyright Officers who find copyright a subject of fascination; the suggestion that their colleagues fear copyright queries was familiar, however they realised that no one had attempted to understand why this might be. Logic might tell them that because of the legal nature of the subject, some librarians might be reluctant to give advice for fear of 'getting it wrong' and being held responsible.
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