Moira Bent

Faculty Liaison Librarian, University of Newcastle and National Learning and Teaching Fellow. Moira’s particular interests are support for research, information literacy and staff development. She chairs the Newcastle Library Infolit group and the ResIN (research support) group and is also the project manager for the Library Information Literacy Project. In 2002 she won the CILIP UC&R Innovation Award for a project on using a VLE for staff development and is currently the joint holder of a University Teaching Fellowship studying the integration of information literacy into the chemistry curriculum. Moira plans to use her National Teaching Fellowship to study the impact of Information Literacy on the student learning experience.

Moira talked about the Newcastle Information Literacy Forum, a working partnership of academic, library and educational development staff and described the IL toolkit under development together with the pedagogical principles underpinning its creation.

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• Developing a Community of Practice : the Newcastle Information Literacy Project (PowerPoint)
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