Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

There is a Call for Papers for the IFLA Information Literacy Section Satellite Meeting taking place in Limerick, Ireland, August 14-15 2014. The conference title is Facing the Future: Librarians and Information Literacy in a Changing Landscape. Main themes are: Information literacy and lifelong learning in a changing landscape; Information literacy - theoretical approaches (standards, assessment, collaboration, etc.); Success stories and best practices and Strategic planning, policy, and advocacy for media and information literacy in a digital age. Contributions can be: Full papers, Presentations, Roundtable discussions, Poster sessions, Train-the-trainers workshops, and PechaKucha presentations. Deadline for proposals is February 28 2014.

April 4, 2014 4:00p.m. - April 5, 2014 5:00p.m.

We invite faculty, administrators, and librarians to share and discuss approaches to teaching research-as-process, research writing, and primary source literacy as part of the one-day conference “New Directions in Information Fluency.”