Debbi Boden

Biography - Debbi Boden is a Faculty Team Leader at Imperial College London and leads on the College's Information Literacy Programmes for students, academic and library staff.   Debbi is also Chair and founder of the CILIP CSG Information Literacy Group whose aim is to promote IL across all sectors, and who organises the Librarian Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC).  Debbi recently completed a project with the Bradford Metropolitan Council known as POP-i. POP-i was a unique collaboration between Higher Education and the Public sector to create an online programme to teach enquiry desk staff in public libraries about IL and to help them develop the skills to transfer that knowledge into the work place. Phase 2 of the project (LolliPop) was to adapt the programme for HE and a pilot is in progress with the Universities of Bedfordshire and Loughborough.

Abstract - The Pop-I Project: Information Literacy in Public Libraries

POP-i was a unique collaboration between Higher Education and the Public sector to create an online programme to teach enquiry desk staff in public libraries about IL and to help them develop the skills to transfer that knowledge into the work place. The presentation will look at brokering the partnership, developing the project plan, agreeing the IL content, choosing the VLE, setting up the evaluation instrument, managing the project, versioning the content for a public library audience, the wider definition of IL in public libraries, using Moodle, overcoming attitudinal barriers and planning future activity.