Libraries Empowering Society through Digital Literacy Education - Celebrating IFLA’s Upcoming Book

18 August 2023 09:00 till 17:00 - Location: TU Delft Library, Prometheusplein 1, 2628ZC Delft; Orange room - room number 1.12 | Add to my calendar

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International conference

IFLA Information Literacy Section (ILS) Satellite Meeting

The Information Literacy Section (ILS) is thrilled to have the opportunity to organize the satellite meeting at the Delft University of Technology Library in Delft, Netherlands. We deeply appreciate their hospitality and generosity in providing their state-of-the-art facilities and extraordinary staff support as well as making this event with free registration.

By attending the satellite meeting, you will not only hear from a group of invited authors of the upcoming IFLA book on digital and media literacy but also actively participate in roundtable discussions with the speakers.

NB: registration is required and it will be closed when the number of registrants reaches 40 or by July 31, whichever comes first.

Program

9:00 - 10:00 Registration and Breakfast
Morning Program  
10:00 - 10:45 Presentations
  • From Book Trailer to BookTok: Engaging Readers Through Digital Literacies - Jennifer Moore, Associate Professor & Director of the School Librarian Certification Program, University of North Texas, USA
  • Digital Inclusion: Empowering India's Citizens with Digital Media Literacy - Saloni Chaudhary, Senior Research Fellow, Banaras Hindu University, India, and Anand Kumar Singh, Librarian, Maharana Pratap Polytechnic, India
  • Developing university students’ digital literacies: Using educator and employer perspectives to inform the role of academic libraries - Kwang Cham, Director of Education Research, Melbourne School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, Australia
 
10:45 - 11:00 Q&As
11:00 - 12:00

Roundtable Discussions - led by Jennifer Moore, Associate Professor & Director of the School Librarian Certification Program, University of North Texas, USA

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch and Networking
Afternoon Program  
14:00 - 14:45 Presentations
  • Ideas, Resources and Conceptual Framework for Teaching News Literacy - Mary Feeney, News Research Librarian Liaison Librarian for History, Journalism, Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Arizona Libraries, USA, Ana Krahmer, Director, Digital Newspaper Program, University of North Texas Libraries, USA, and Viktor Mutev, Associate Professor at the Medialogy and Literature Department (LIS School), St. Petersburg State University of Culture, Russia
  • Transliteracy in Archives: Engaging Students with Primary Sources - Kristen Nyitray, Director, Special Collections and University Archives, University Archivist, Associate Librarian, Stony Brook University Libraries, USA, and Dana Reijerkerk, Knowledge Management and Digital Assets Librarian, Senior Assistant Librarian, Stony Brook University Libraries, USA
  • Digital Literacy: Necessary but Not Sufficient for Life-Wide and Life-Long Learning - Darryl Toerien, Head of Inquiry-Based Learning, Blanchelande College, Guernsey
 
14:45 - 15:00 Q&As
15:00 - 16:00 Roundtable Discussions - led by Mary Feeney, News Research Librarian Liaison Librarian for History, Journalism, Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Arizona Libraries, USA and Ana Krahmer, Director, Digital Newspaper Program, University of North Texas Libraries, USA
16:00 - 17:00 Library Tour and Networking (optional)

 

Presenters

Melbourne School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia

Dr Kwang Cham, Director of Education Research

Dr. Cham is an optometrist and a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne. His educational scholarship interests include using digital technologies for feedback and assessment and inter-professional education. Dr. Cham has received numerous educational research grants and has presented at national and international conferences on the scholarship of learning and teaching. He is currently the Director of Education Research at The Melbourne School of Health Sciences. In recognition of his contributions to the scholarship of learning and teaching, Dr Cham received the University of Melbourne David White Award for Teaching Excellence in 2022.

Department of Library and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Department of Library and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Saloni Chaudhary, Senior Research Fellow

Saloni Chaudhary is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the Department of Library and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. She did her Graduation in Ancient Indian History, Culture & Archaeology, and Post-Graduation in Library and Information Science from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. She is also the recipient of the National Fellowship for Research (Junior Research Fellowship) provided by the University Grant Commission, India. Her area of interest is Scientometric, Digital Humanities, and Digital Literacy.

The University of Arizona Libraries, Tuson, Arizona, USA

The University of Arizona Libraries, Tuson, Arizona, USA

Mary Feeney, News Research Librarian and Liaison Librarian for History and Journalism

Mary Feeney is the News Research Librarian and Liaison Librarian for History and Journalism at the University of Arizona Libraries, where she collaborates with faculty and students in their research, teaching, and learning. She has led and participated in National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grants, a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program grant, a Mellon-funded project, “Using Newspapers as Data for Collaborative Pedagogy,” and the creation of the UA Libraries’ Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press digital collection. She has presented and published about the use of newspapers in research, newspaper digitization, text mining, and teaching with primary sources.

University of North Texas Libraries University of North Texas Libraries, Denton, Texas, USA

University of North Texas Libraries University of North Texas Libraries, Denton, Texas, USA

Ana Krahmer, PhD, Director of the Digital Newspaper Unit

Ana Krahmer is the Director of the Digital Newspaper Unit out of University of North Texas Libraries, where she oversees the Texas Digital Newspaper Program, hosted on The Portal to Texas History. TDNP is the largest, single-state, open access digital newspaper preservation repository in the U.S., encompassing just under 10 million newspaper pages. On the side, Krahmer teaches Technical Communication in the UNT Tech Comm Department. Krahmer’s teaching includes critical thinking and information literacy components, in which she develops materials and activities related to news source analysis over time to examine and contextualize communication situations within their historical frameworks.

Department of Information Science in the College of Information at the University of North Texas

Department of Information Science in the College of Information at the University of North Texas

Jennifer Moore, Associate Professor and the Director of the School Librarianship Program

She teaches graduate-level courses in instructional technology in school libraries, school library management and program development, pedagogy in school libraries, youth programming in libraries, and youth literature. Her recent scholarly interests include evidence-based practice in school libraries and integrating computational thinking into LIS curriculum, and her research has been supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Medialogy and Literature Department (LIS School), St. Petersburg State University of Culture, St. Petersburg, Russia

Medialogy and Literature Department (LIS School), St. Petersburg State University of Culture, St. Petersburg, Russia

Viktor Mutev, PhD, Associate Professor

Viktor Mutev holds the position of Associate Professor at the Medialogy and Literature Department (LIS School) and Scientific Secretary of the Dissertation Committee for Scientific Specialty “Library Science, Bibliography and Book Science” at St. Petersburg State University of Culture. He has published more than 40 works on topics such as book science, media, LIS methodology, LIS education, information policy and library management. He is a designer and instructor of courses: “Media-communications in LIS” and “Analysis of news and advertisements”, exclusive for Russian LIS educational system. Viktor is a member of the IFLA News Media section Standing Committee.

Stony Brook University Libraries, Stony Brook, New York, USA

Stony Brook University Libraries, Stony Brook, New York, USA

Kristen J. Nyitray Director, Special Collections and University Archives, University Archivist, Associate Librarian

Kristen J. Nyitray is Director, Special Collections and University Archives, and University Archivist at Stony Brook University. She is a Certified Archivist (C.A.) and maintains a Digital Archives Specialist certificate from the Society of American Archivists. Her research interests include examining the ways libraries and archives interface with Indigenous histories, public history, and heritage tourism.

Stony Brook University Libraries, Stony Brook, New York, USA

Stony Brook University Libraries, Stony Brook, New York, USA

Dana Reijerkerk, Knowledge Management and Digital Assets Librarian, Senior Assistant Librarian

Dana Reijerkerk is the Knowledge Management and Digital Assets Librarian at Stony Brook University. She holds a Master of Information from the University of Michigan. Her research interests include Indigenous open access and information privacy issues and Indigenization of GLAM web presences.

Librarian, Maharana Pratap Polytechnic Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

Librarian, Maharana Pratap Polytechnic Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

Anand Kumar Singh

Anand Kumar Singh is currently working as Librarian at Maharana Pratap Polytechnic, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India and simultaneously pursuing his research at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh India. He served the Vikram Sarabhai Library of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmadabad as a Library Trainee before joining for his research degree. He graduated with a Bachelor of Technology degree from the University of Allahabad in Electronics and Communication Engineering and did his Master’s in Library and Information Science at Banaras Hindu University.

Blanchelande College, Les Vauxbelets, St Andrews, Guernsey

Blanchelande College, Les Vauxbelets, St Andrews, Guernsey

Mr Darryl Toerien, Head of Inquiry-Based Learning

Darryl Toerien is Head of Inquiry-Based Learning at Blanchelande College, Guernsey. He is a co-opted member of the Board of the UK School Library Association, an elected member of the Standing Committee of the IFLA School Libraries Section, and a member of the International Association of School Librarianship. He is also originator of FOSIL (2011) and the FOSIL Group(2019). FOSIL – Framework Of Skills for Inquiry Learning – is based on the work of Barbara Stripling as reflected in the Empire State Information Fluency Continuum, and is included in Models of Inquiry (2022) in the IFLA / De Gruyter Global Action for School Libraries series.