Creative IL embedding at Royal Holloway, University of London 2013

Abstract

n 2013, Helen Westwood and Russell Burke presented at LILAC about how information literacy was embedded in Geography courses at Royal Holloway. One of our plans for the future was to embed IL across the college. In May 2014, a paper was accepted at the College’s Learning, Teaching and Quality Committee making IL training and assessment a requirement for all first year undergraduate courses from 2014/15. This poster will show the steps involved in achieving this outcome, the challenges we have faced, and how we have used a variety of ways to engage staff and students with information literacy. Our Academic Liaison team is formed of six Information Consultants. We are keen to be creative in the way we deliver IL training and we have used a range of methods in order to make the most of the time we are given for the content. An “Information Literacy for staff” libguide has been developed, which includes an information literacy menu so academics can see what we we offer and choose what they would like us to deliver for their students “a la carte”. We are also using libguides to support our sessions. For example, one has been developed especially for a Geography 1st year core module. This includes a pre-lecture quiz, as well as tabs for the components of IL. In workshops for a range of subjects, we have asked students to suggest keywords on a given topic using padlet.com. In other lectures, we are using the student response system Socrative for instant question and answer segments. We will use screenshots of these on the poster. We are keen to share and discuss our approach to embedding IL with LILAC delegates and hope this poster will provide inspiration for other institutions.