1. Information Literacy in a Digital World Gwyneth Price Collection Development Services Librarian Institute of Education

2. The Lecture Introduction What is a Lecture? Libraries in Bloomsbury Electronic libraries Information literacy Library 2.0

3. Libraries at the centre of London What is happening at: The British Library Senate House The Institute of Education The School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) And other libraries in London?

5. These require over 625 km of shelves, and grow 12km every year

7. Institute of Education Library

8. School of Oriental and African Studies Library You may borrow from SOAS on production of your IoE registration card.

9. 21st century libraries Libraries continue to collect books and journals for research and provide spaces where you can study and employ librarians who can help But there are also places to talk; computers & televisions lots of self-service

10. What is happening in the electronic world? E-journals Databases E-books Gateways Links to external/ free resources Online help on web pages and in VLEs

11. The future needs of libraries Digitisation work at the BL requires storage space of six terabytes per year By 2020 40% of the UK research output will be in electronic format only Libraries need staff who can manage resources and clients who can make sense of them

12. Why such an emphasis on information literacy? Information literacy is knowing when and why you need information, where to find it, and how to evaluate, use and communicate it in an ethical manner.

14. What’s in a name? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ECAVxbfsfc Literacy or Fluency?

15. Ethical issues What kind of issues should we be concerned about?

16. How do you keep track of what you have found? Carefully organised notes A database Purpose designed software, egEndNote Web 2.0 technologies, eg delicious or Librarything

17. Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 Web 2.0 is about: user-generated, web-based content collaboration open-source

19. Find out more Find links and these slides at: http://delicious.com/GwynethP/caplitstalk

20. Conclusions What is a lecture? What is a library: physical and virtual?

21. Contact detailsGwyneth Price g.price@ioe.ac.ukEnquiries lib.enquiries@ioe.ac.uk