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Call for papers AND call for *suggested* speakers!

The IFLA Information Literacy Section and the IFLA
Management and Marketing Section are holding a joint session
during the Oslo World Library 2005 conference 14-18 August.

Information Literacy: a voyage of discovery for citizens.

The theme is citizens’ discovery of their own capability with
information, and of the ways in which librarians and information
professionals can help citizens fulfill their goals and dreams.
This will be a 2 hour session with presentations and short panel
discussion.

We are aiming to have speakers from different sectors,
perspectives and countries for this session. The speakers may
come, for example, from:

- Public library sector
- Social action and citizen groups
- Public administration
- Community and outreach librarians

The focus for the session is on participants’ understanding the
citizen (your "customer") and what the citizen could gain from
information literacy. The citizens might have educational goals,
business goals, survival goals, or personal goals and dreams.
These are all areas where information literacy could be
transformational.

The focus is also on librarians being willing to put aside
assumptions, acknowledge the skills that citizens already have,
and empathise with citizens' life goals.

Papers may include:

- case studies which show how librarians in different types of
library and culture had built on their knowledge of their market
to create information literacy services or education which had an
impact on people’s lives.

- research, testimony or informed reflection on the needs of a
particular group of citizens, and how this group could benefit
from greater information literacy

If you would like to propose a paper yourself OR if you would
like to suggest a speaker for this theme please contact Sheila
Webber or Christina Tovoté (see below for details). IFLA asks
for a full text paper (this does not have to be lengthy!) to be
supplied before the conference itself. We have applied for
simulataneous translation at this session, but do not yet know
whether we will have it.

Unfortunately IFLA cannot provide funding for speakers’
attendance.

Contacts
- Christina Tovoté, Pedagogical Developer, Stockholm
University Library, SE-10691
Stockholm, Sweden. Email christina.tovote@sub.su.se Tel. +46
8 164005 Fax +46 8 157776 Secretary IFLA Information
Literacy Section

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Sheila Webber, Lecturer, Department of Information Studies, University of
Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK.
Email s.webber@sheffield.ac.uk
Tel. (0044) 0114 222 2641
Fax 0114 278 0300
The Information Literacy Weblog: http://ciquest.shef.ac.uk/infolit/

posted by Nafiz Zaman @ 3:00 AM