Information literacy scholar, Dr. Christine Bruce, presented the 2012 Information Literacy Research Symposium on August 13, 2012 in Hicks Undergraduate Library, Room B848. This event was co-sponsored by the Purdue University Libraries and the Discovery Learning and Research Center (DLRC). Dr. Bruce outlined informed learning, a pedagogy for teaching how to use information in subject-focused [...]
As part of the Information Literacy Symposium series directed by Dr. Sharon Weiner, Dr. Paulette Kerr gave a lecture and workshop at Purdue on Friday, November 11, 2011. Both the morning and afternoon sessions were quite intriguing, as Dr. Kerr shared the findings from her doctoral research into espoused and practiced theories that inform information [...]
Project investigators from the University of Washington iSchool choose Purdue University to release the results of the 2010 Project Information Literacy (PIL) study. Dr. Alison Head led a day-long symposium on October 27. Forty invited members who attended included representatives of the PIL Board, Board of Directors of the National Forum on Information Literacy, members [...]
The Libraries Faculty Seminar Committee hosted a workshop with information literacy researcher, Dr. Ross Todd, on May 13 2010. Dr. Todd is the director of the Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries and a professor in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers. His day-long presentation and workshop was titled, New Foundations: Building [...]