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IL in Higher Education
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Ingrid Thomson, Chair Elect HELIG NationalDate 31 August 2016
Event GN HELIG InfoLit Day
Outline
HE in SA - Postschooling, Challenges for students
IL in HE in SA - potted history and where we are
WC InfoLit Day
KZN InfoLit Day
So where to from here?
Almost Final Words (from Barbara Fister)
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Higher Education in South Africa• Post-Schooling
Public Universities and Universities of Technology
Private Universities
Technical Vocational Education Training Colleges (Public and Private)
Community Colleges
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HE in SA: Some Issues/Challenges (1)
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Underpreparedness of students for a variety of reasons including:- Nature and language of academic discourse Learning experiences Socio-economic and cultural background English not first language
Preparedness of (some) Academics and Lecturers
HE in SA: Some Issues/Challenges (2)
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Diverse subject/discipline fieldsDifferent levels of study and experienceGetting students to attend IL sessions that are
not mandatoryLack of facilities and resources such as pcs and
skilled instructors
No homegrown IL standards
IL Definitions
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Term has been around since 1970s.
UNESCOACRL which was then updated in 2015SCONULCILIP
All very similar - essentially the ability to know when and why you need information, where to find it, how to evaluate, use and communicate it in an ethical manner
Some Different Models
• ACRL Framework
• ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards (now rescinded)
• CILIP Information Literacy Model
• Sconul Seven Pillars of Information Literacy
• ANCIL (developed by Emma Coogan and Jane Secker)
• (ISP)
• Information Search Process
• Scottish National Framework
• Welsh National Framework
• Big6
• Seven Faces of IL in HE (Christine Bunce, Australian)
• PLUS IL Model (James Herring)
• Australian and New Zealand IL Standards
• Swiss IL Standards
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Potted History of IL in HE in SAWas always part of teacher training - “Book education”
1996 CALICO Infolit Project
2001 – 2004 Karin de Jager + Mary Nassimbeni (UCT) research at LIASA including Workshop at Conference
Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC) prototype IL course developed by Project Team including Janine Lockhart and Adriaan Coetzee. Bought by SEALS library consortium and adapted for local conditions.
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Potted History of IL in SA
2006 CHELSA Sub-committee: IL Training survey of 23 universities
2007 CHELSA mandates creation of National Framework leading to Draft IL Training Guidelines in 2009
2014 Final report: Transformation Charter recommends that universities and colleges create an IL policy leading to action plan which recognizes the institutions responsibility for ensuring all grads enter the workplace with IL skills.
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Transformation Charter Recommendations (Chapter 4)A large part of the population feels excluded from fulfilling
their role as citizens. because of being illiterate and lacking information literacy. Literacy and information literacy can unlock the doors to a reading culture, social cohesion and economic empowerment.
All sub-sectors to collaborate on approaches for progression.
Action plan: Design & market literacy & information literacy campaigns & programmes in the LIS sector working with teachers, trade unions, religious organisations.
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Western Cape InfoLit Day
9 presentations in all from all the CALICO institutions, UNISA, then TVET and private colleges - College of Cape Town, Tsiba, Helderberg College and George Whitefield College.
What was clear was that we were all using different frameworks … Sconul, ACRL Framework, Australian and New Zealand Standards
And some were further down the line than others especially with online offerings.
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Discussion Points at WC IL DayFirst Year Experience and IL
Designing a one-shot lesson using the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education
Online IL Development
Starting the IL Conversation with your community
Assessment/Effectiveness: How do you know
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KZN InfoLit Day
ACRL IL Framework
Models for Teaching IL
Content Design – Flipping the Classroom for IL teaching and learning
IL at UniZulu, MUT and UKZN shared their IL stories
Discussion on the Way Forward
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Almost Final Word (Barbara Fister)
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/latest-docudrama
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There are loads of standards and frameworks out there telling us what we should be doing. These are the records of professional conversations and negotiations about groups of people think matters and what we should do about it. Those conversations can be valuable, but the documents aren’t powerful talismans. They aren’t rules or recipes. They’re a record of how a profession thinks about something at a given point in time. They aren’t what we do.
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Some of us are trying to help 40,000 students learn in giant, confusing research libraries, and that’s really hard. Some of us are the only librarian in a library with a shoestring budget helping 1,000 students, a significant percentage of whom are currently homeless or hungry, and that’s hard too.
The discussions we have about information literacy and the documents that come out of those discussions can be helpful, but they don’t do this hard work for us.
We each have to do that in the way that works best for our students. Those wonderfully unique people who are trying to learn under varying circumstances, helped by teachers facing all kinds of obstacles.
What’s happening in SA?(HELIG)2012 WCHELIG Workshop Librarians as Teachers presented
by Jeff Jawitz
Webinar by Shehaamah Mohamed on ACRL Framework
Creation of a Google Group SAInformationliteracy on Google Groups
Need to ascertain what is happening on the ground, hence the call for InfoLit Days in the various branches. (Western Cape, KZN and GN thus far)
Webinar by Janine Lockhart on CPUT IL Online experience 22nd September 2016
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The Way Forward • Several papers at the LIASA Conference deal with InfoLit
• Round Table session on IL at Conference on Friday morning (last day of conference) 8.30 –10 am. Planning is underway to identify the topic/discussion points and speakers to share.
• Focus for the incoming HELIG team in 2016 – 2018. Intention is that one of the Additional Members on the National HELIG team has this as his/her portfolio.
• Need for an SA IL Framework for Post-Schooling.
• In the new term of office, call will go out for applications to join a team to work on this. (Thank you to the KZN members who have already volunteered their services under Shirlene Neerpath!)
• Look at InfoLit education/training for librarians responsible for InfoLit. Work with RETIG on this.
• Promotion of the informationliteracysa discussion list so it is better used for (informal) sharing and discussion.
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HELIG Touchpoints
• Information Literacy Discussion Group (open to all)
• HELIG mailing list (HELIG members only)
• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/LiasaHelig
• Twitter @HELIGNews
• Slideshare HELIGLIASA
• Blog https://heligliasa.wordpress.com/
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Two Key Readings related to SA IL
• Esterhuizen, E.m. and Kuhn, R (2010) CHELSA draft guidelines on information literacy: paving the way to a South African National Framework? Innovation: Journal of Appropriate Librarianship and Information Work in Southern Africa. Vol 41: 83 – 106.
• Moyo, M and Mavodza, J. (2016) A comparative study of information literacy provision at university libraries in South Africa and the United Arab Emirates. Library Review, Vol 65 (1/2): 93 -107
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THANK YOU!
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