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Free Information Literacy event

Start date:19-03-2007
End date:31-03-2007
Location:Department of Information Studies, 2nd Floor, Regent Court, Portobello Street, University of Sheffield

The Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, is holding a free half-day event on information literacy research, featuring speakers from the Department plus a visiting speaker: Dr Christine Bruce, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Date: Friday 30th March 2007
Registration from 1.15, programme starts at 1.40 and ends at 4.15.

Where : Regent Court, Portobello Street, University of Sheffield

What: Programme consists of:
Introduction ( Professor Sheila Corrall, University of Sheffield);
Guest keynote: Information literacy: models from research (Dr Christine Bruce);
Information Literacy research in the Department of Information Studies, and the UK research agenda (Sheila Webber and Nigel Ford);
Conceptions of information literacy of UK Chemistry and English academics (Sheila Webber, University of Sheffield, and Bill Johnston, University of Strathclyde);
Mining of search activity data to support information literacy (Professor Nigel Ford and Dr Andrew Madden, University of Sheffield, reporting from a project investigating search behaviour of members of the public).
There will be opportunities for questions and discussion.

How much: Free

How to register: Email Ms Phussadee Dokphrom at p.dokphrom@shef.ac.uk

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