Sheila Webber

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Studies at the University of Sheffield.

Sheila’s topic was "Working towards the Information Literate University". She discussed the Information Literate University (ILU) as a desired outcome for institutional strategy. In reflecting on its potential aims and key leaders and stakeholders she drew on: research carried out with Johnston and Boon, which elicited academics’ conceptions of the ILU; early experience of being part of a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (namely the Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences, which includes information literacy as a focus); and observations of progress and practice in universities outside the UK.

Downloads

• Working towards the information literate university (PowerPoint)
• Audio file of Sheila Webber's Information Literacy presentation
  (MP3 file, size 12 MB, duration 26 mins)