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CRIG Info Lit “Grim Reaper” Seminar. Gary Hardy ghardy@swin.edu.au. Things that worry me about IL:. Terminology Statistics and evaluation Assumptions Lack of agreement in the profession about IL Resourcing, priorities and return on effort What the users are telling us.
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CRIG Info Lit “Grim Reaper” Seminar Gary Hardy ghardy@swin.edu.au
Things that worry me about IL: • Terminology • Statistics and evaluation • Assumptions • Lack of agreement in the profession about IL • Resourcing, priorities and return on effort • What the users are telling us
Information Literacy Life long learning Face to face Extended sessions Generic principles “They should know this” Contextual skills Just in time Online, embedded Small chunks Specific tools “They want to know that” What are we talking about ?
Statistics • Average for Victorian CAUL respondents of 14,913 persons in “face to face presentations made as part of formal bibliographic instruction programs and through other planned class presentations, orientation sessions and tours. • Average total students at Victorian CAUL institutions: 46,197
Statistics – two conclusions: • We aren’t getting anywhere near interacting with the bulk of our audience with the face to face IL endeavour. • The way we are collecting and sharing these very basic statistics is not very illuminating.
Materials Availability • 1063 respondents • 91.2% obtained the item they wanted • Of the 8.8% of items not found: 22% not in catalog 15% item not on shelf 15% item on hold or loan 12.5% not on home campus 3.8% have print but user wants electronic 7.6% other system issues • User factors – user skill? >10% - ie less than 1% of total
Do we need to check the underlying assumptions about search? • Implicit assumption that the students need Librarians to show them how to search?