Project Information Literacy: CARLI Instruction Committee Event

Start With Students: A Virtual Chat with the Executive Director of Project Information Literacy, Dr. Alison Head.

Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2023 from noon-1pm central

Description:
The CARLI Instruction Committee partnered with the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign for a virtual Zoom chat with Dr. Alison Head, Executive Director of Project Information Literacy (PIL).

Centering around the question “Why do most students use campus libraries, but far fewer turn to librarians for help?,” Dr. Head led an engaging discussion highlighting major findings from “The Project Information Literacy Retrospective: Insights from more than a decade of information literacy research, 2008-2022”. PIL's empirical research reveals what students can teach us about their information habits and strategies, and Dr. Head introduced PIL’s model for the undergraduate research process as a tool for building student success and use of library services.

Recording:

Bibliography shared in the chat during the presentation by Barbara Fister:

• Project Information Literacy website
• And here is the retrospective, with capsules of all the research studies … Alison J. Head, Barbara Fister, Steven Geofrey, and Margy MacMillan.  “The Project Information Literacy Retrospective: Insights from more than a decade of information literacy research, 2008-2022” Project Information Research Institute. https://projectinfolit.org/publications/retrospective
• and Alison's reading Provocation is here: “Reading in the Age of Distrust,” Alison J. Head, Project Information Literacy Provocation Series, April 7, 2021. https://projectinfolit.org/pubs/provocation-series/essays/reading-in-the-age-of-distrust.html
• “Truth Be Told: How College Students Evaluate and Use Information in the Digital Age,” Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg, Project Information Literacy Progress Report, University of Washington’s Information School, November 1, 2010. https://projectinfolit.org/publications/evaluating-information-study/
• The previous (2009) research: “Finding Context: What Today’s College Students Say about Conducting Research in the Digital Age,” Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg, Project Information Literacy Progress Report, University of Washington’s Information School, February 4, 2009 (18 pages, PDF, 864 KB). https://projectinfolit.org/publications/finding-context-study/
• “Lessons Learned: How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age,” Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg, Project Information Literacy First Year Report with Student Survey Findings, University of Washington’s Information School, December 1, 2009 (42 pages, PDF, 3MB). https://projectinfolit.org/publications/information-seeking-habits/
• Here's the current website for the Berkman: https://cyber.harvard.edu/
• This is the study that included faculty interviews (and student focus groups). “Information Literacy in the Age of Algorithms: Student Experiences with News and Information, and the Need for Change,” Alison J. Head, Barbara Fister, and Margy MacMillan, Project Information Literacy Research Institute. January 15, 2020. https://projectinfolit.org/publications/algorithm-study/
• Jessica's graphic for the algo study: https://projectinfolit.org/pubs/algorithm-study/pil_algorithm-study_2020-01-15_algo-figure.png
• An early danah boyd publication about youth and the internet - https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300199000/its-complicated/
• Here's the Knight-funded News study which includes many students who don't trust *any* news... “How Students Engage with News: Five Takeaways for Educators, Journalists, and Librarians”:  Alison J. Head, John Wihbey, P. Takis Metaxas, Margy MacMillan, and Dan Cohen, Project Information Literacy Research Institute. October 16, 2018. https://projectinfolit.org/publications/news-study/
• These are the passage studies …. “Learning Curve: How College Graduates Solve Information Problems Once They Join the Workplace,” Alison J. Head, Project Information Literacy, Passage Studies Research Report, October 15, 2012. https://projectinfolit.org/publications/workplace-study/
• “Learning the Ropes: How Freshmen Conduct Course Research Once They Enter College,” Alison J. Head, Project Information Literacy, Passage Studies Research Report, December 4, 2013. (Text with appendix, 48 pages, PDF, 5.78 MB). https://projectinfolit.org/publications/first-year-experience-study/
• “Staying Smart: How Today’s Graduates Continue to Learn Once They Complete College,” Alison J. Head, Project Information Literacy, Passage Studies Research Report, January 5, 2016. https://projectinfolit.org/publications/lifelong-learning-study/
• The "zeitgeist studies" are the ones on news, algorithms, and the Covid study … “Covid-19: The first 100 days of U.S. news coverage: Lessons about the media ecosystem for librarians, educators, students, and journalists,” Alison J. Head, Steven Braun, Margy MacMillan, Jessica Yurkofsky, and Alaina C. Bull, Project Information Literacy Research Institute, September 15, 2020. https://projectinfolit.org/publications/covid-19-the-first-100-days/
• “Assigning Inquiry: How Handouts for Research Assignments Guide Today’s College Students,” Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg, Project Information Literacy Progress Report, University of Washington’s Information School, July 13, 2010 https://projectinfolit.org/publications/research-handouts-study/
• Here's how it looked in 2010 - faculty were scared of Wikipedia but students used it … for good. “How Today’s College Students Use Wikipedia for Course-Related Research,” Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg, First Monday, March 2010, Volume 15, Number 3 (16 pages). http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2830
• And this publication a year later addressed everyday research … “How College Students Use the Web to Conduct Everyday Life Research,” Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg, First Monday, April 2011, vol. 16, no. 4 (23 pages). http://firstmonday.org/article/view/3484/2857
• This may be helpful - helps students see how questions underlie scholarship in a 1st year library program... Deitering, A. M., & Jameson, S. (2008). Step by step through the scholarly conversation: A collaborative library/writing faculty project to embed information literacy and promote critical thinking in first year composition at Oregon State University. College & Undergraduate Libraries, 15(1-2), 57-79.
• Here's the interview with writing instruction expert, Andrea Lunsford - https://projectinfolit.org/smart-talk-interviews/writing-and-the-profound-revolution-in-access/