The latest issue of the Journal of Information Literacy, the international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of the CILIP Information Literacy Group, has just been published.
As ever, it includes the latest in IL research, including an investigation of information literacy as a measurable construct, and a project report that describes a collaborative effort between librarians, staff, local journalists and students discussing ‘fake news. Also included is a conference report on the European Conference on Information Literacy 2018, plus the latest reviews of books recently published on information literacy topics.
The full contents of volume 12, issue 2 are listed below:
Editorial
Reading between the lines Emma Coonan
Peer reviewed articles
The seven voices of information literacy (IL) Veronica Cunningham, Dorothy Williams, Professor
Source evaluation behaviours of first-year university students Elise Silva, Jessica Green, Cole Walker
Articles from LILAC
Drawing on students’ funds of knowledge Amanda L. Folk
Comics, questions, action! Stephanie Margolin, Mason Brown, Sarah Ward
Information literacy as a measurable construct Helena Hollis
Project reports
Supporting open information literacy via hybridised design experiments Kristen Radsliff Rebmann
Beyond databases Dana Ingalls
Putting levity into literacy Bogdana A. Marchis
When the library steps in Joseph Marmol Yap, April Ramos Manabat
Examining student perceptions of their knowledge, roles, and power in the information cycle Lucinda Rush
Conference Updates
Does LILAC tone you up or calm you down? Tibor Koltay
ECIL 2018 Alison Hicks
Book reviews
Book review of Oberlies, M. K. and Mattson, J. (eds). 2018. Framing information literacy: Teaching grounded in theory, pedagogy, and practice. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries Anna Lavinia Barefoot
Book review of Veach, G. (ed.) 2018. Teaching information literacy and writing studies: Volume 1, first-year composition courses Evangelia Bougatzeli
Book review of Proffitt, M. (ed.) 2018. Leveraging Wikipedia: connecting communities of knowledge Sebastian Krutkowski
Book review of Brown, E. H. 2018. Learning through metaphor Kirsten Lamb
Book review of Walsh, A. 2018. The librarians’ book on teaching through games and play Amy Straker