My paper from the European Conference on Information Literacy has been published!! 🥳

'Approaches to exploring the information worlds of women engineering students', free to read until the end of February at this link: https://rdcu.be/dxI05

#InformationLiteracy #infolit #LISresearch #ECIL2023

My last #ECIL2023 blog post! Just a couple of my favourite presentations from the conference.

https://woodsiegirl.wordpress.com/2023/11/02/ecil-2023-standout-presentations/

Continuing my reflections from #ECIL2023, these are the presentations (besides the keynotes!) that made me Think Big Thoughts

https://woodsiegirl.wordpress.com/2023/11/02/ecil-2023-things-that-made-me-think/

Some reflections on the practical ideas I gained from presentations at #ECIL2023

https://woodsiegirl.wordpress.com/2023/11/01/ecil-2023-practical-ideas/

First of a series of blog posts on my learning points from #ECIL2023. This post discusses the four keynote talks

https://woodsiegirl.wordpress.com/2023/10/31/ecil-2023-the-keynotes/

Blogged my reflections on presenting in the doctoral forum at #ECIL2023

http://woodsieresearch.co.uk/2023/10/24/ecil-2023-reflections/

One of the speakers just mentioned needing to consult her “academic-speak to English dictionary” when going through the approval process for the credit-bearing module they designed 🤣 🤣 🤣 #ECIL2023

Many of their students are older adults with significant digital and information literacy needs. The info lit classes the library offers are not compulsory, so wanted to embed in compulsory modules for greatest impact #ECIL2023

Background on the students at Bristol Community College: mostly non-traditional, first generation, working as well as studying. Part of a push to increase access to higher education, reduce the debt burden for college education #ECIL2023

The speakers giving credit to Laura Hogan, who couldn’t be here at #ECIL2023 but was the driving force behind the work they are discussing today

Panel discussion now on “Building Knowledge across the Curriculum: Utilizing the Learning Community Model to Maximize Relevant Information Literacy Instruction”, with Emily Zealand Brown and Susan Souza-Mort from Bristol Community College, USA #ECIL2023

Information experience research often neglects prior research in information behaviour. This can lead to repetitive work, reinventing the wheel - there is a long-established tradition of information behaviour that research could draw from #ECIL2023

In her review, Sabina didn’t come across any new methods or techniques in information experience research. They are all methods that have been long used in LIS research generally #ECIL2023

Sabina raising a good question: if anything can be information, where are the boundaries of inforamtion experience research? E.g. a chair can be informative - would we study the information experience of sitting on chairs?? 🤣 #ECIL2023

Units of analysis in info experience research can be behaviour (e.g. activities), people/individuals/groups etc, objects (e.g. information sources), or time units.

Side note: I read this paper recently about the lifeworld as a unit of analysis which I’m finding very helpful for my own research! https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JD-12-2017-0174/full/html

#ECIL2023

Alphabetical list of methods used in the information experience literature. Surprised to see phenomenography on this list but not phenomenology? #ECIL2023

(Again, apologies for lack of alt text - will add later!)

I would add to this that I am generally dubious of quantitative research in information literacy! I think most of what matters in info lit is very difficult, if not impossible to quantify, and most of the quantitative research I have read in this field strikes me as very weak, I think they’re often not measuring what they claim to be #ECIL2023

Qualitative strategies dominate information experience research, for obvious reasons. Information experience is subjective, personal, lends itself well to qualitative approaches. Sabina did not find any quantitative research on information experience - although information literature research more commonly uses quantitative approaches #ECIL2023

I just realised I’ve mixed up the two speakers: the comments I’ve attributed to Sabina were actually said by Monika! 🤦‍♀️ Sabina now taking the mic to speak about methodological approaches #ECIL2023

Sabina asking a question I have been grappling with: what is the difference between information experience, information practice, information literacy, information behaviour? Glad to hear I am not the only one who finds this distinction challenging! Are they separate concepts, or do they all contribute to a wider umbrella concept? Is information experience the umbrella concept? #ECIL2023