Sophie Brettell   

Biography - Sophie Brettell has been working in the areas of e-learning and more general curriculum development for the past 5 years. Her main interest in Information Literacy is in developing ways in which to help teaching staff to contextualise and integrate the materials at both a modular and programme level

Abstract - Collaboration in transition: working together to facilitate information literacy

With the rise of social software and the increase in available information, how can schools and universities collaborate in producing information literate graduates? This session will report on the preliminary findings from a National Teaching Fellowship research project which is working with teachers, students and librarians to discover what they think other people think about information literacy and how these perceptions affect student information literacy. The Newcastle IL toolkit, an initiative to facilitate IL in the curriculum, will also be demonstrated.