Journal of Information Literacy new issue

There's a new issue of the open access Journal of Information Literacy, volume 6, number 1 (2012) at http://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/JIL/index. It includes the following, plus a conference report and book reviews:
- The experiences of Chinese PhD students in Australia: Encountering information literacy challenges: Jinghe Han
- Business information literacy teaching at different academic levels: An exploration of skills and implications for instructional design: Mariela Gunn, Cynthia E. Miree
- Active and reflective learning initiatives to improve web searching skills of business students: Alison E Lahlafi, Diane Rushton, Erica Stretton
- Learning Literacies through collaborative enquiry; collaborative enquiry through learning literacies: Jo Ashley, Freya Jarman, Tunde Varga-Atkins, Nedim Hassan
- Looking to the future: Developing an academic skills strategy to ensure information literacy survives in a changing higher education world: Helen Howard
- Creating an online tutorial to develop academic and research skills: Sara L Thornes
- The Welsh Information Literacy Project: Phase 2: Cathie Jackson
Photo by Sheila Webber: Alium heads, Sheffield Botanic Gardens, June 2012

Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship IL special issue

There's an information literacy focus to volume 17, issue 1, 2012, of the Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship. Aryicles are:
- Information Literacy in the Workplace: Employer Expectations by Jason Sokoloff. There is an interesting blog post about this article (particularly interesting to me as my library doesn't subscribe to this publication): Cramer, S. (2012) "Information Literacy: Academia v. Workplace" This liaison life, April 10. http://liaisonlife.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/infolit_workplace/
- Workplace Information Literacy: A Neglected Priority for Community College Libraries by Nora J. Bird, Michael Crumpton, Melynda Ozan and Tim Williams
- Information Literacy in the Accounting Classroom: A Collaborative Effort by Wayne Finley and Tammy Waymire
- The Impact of Library Instruction on the Quality of Student Project Performance in an Advanced Financial Management Case Class by Michael Sherman, Julia A. Martin and Xiaoran An
- A Sustainable Approach to Teaching Information Literacy: Reaching the Masses Online by Camille Tooman and Julie Sibthorpe
- Developing and Assessing a Library Instruction Module for a Core Business Class by Connie Strittmatter
- Embedded Librarianship and Virtual Environments in Entrepreneurship Information Literacy: A Case Study by Hal Kirkwood and; Kelly Evans.
The home page is at http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wbfl20/17/1
Photo by Sheila Webber: Arts tower, University of sheffield, April 2012.