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

Welsh Information Literacy Project Phase 3 starts

Phase 3 of the Welsh Information Literacy Project has been awarded to Coleg Llandrillo’s Library and Learning Technology Service (LLTS), led by Andrew Eynon. The main streams are concerned with Public Libraries, Schools/Education, and Information Literacy for Employability. Currently they are using their college's blog to report news http://liberace.wordpress.com/ and the previous website is at http://library.wales.org/informationliteracy/blog/
Yesterday they posted a reflection on Phase 3 of the Welsh Information Literacy project, reporting how information literacy is "mentioned specifically in the Digital Classroom task and finish group report [commissioned by the Minister for Education and Skills in the Welsh Assembly], as one of the core features of success for supporting the recommendations of change to drive forward the digital learning agenda in Wales" http://liberace.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/welsh-information-literacy-project-reflections-on-the-hwb/
Photo by Sheila Webber: Cherry blossom on my tree, April 2012