“I would definitely recommend this chapter to new IL practitioners”

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“Only Connect challenges pre-conceptions  information professionals may hold with regards to what and whom constitute as being ‘information literate’ and asks the reader to broaden their view”

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Into the woods: teaching trails and learning

journeys

Alongside observing the complex eddies of group dynamics ... I was also watching a class in action.

‘The Stable Group’ (Mathew)

‘Memories’ (Dimmock, Hoon and MacLellan)

Even the dogs are learning to become guardians or gatekeepers: “Zack was teaching Bonnie how to fight and to bark with more aggression”

Information literacy is not a fixed set of skills. Information literacy cannot be measured as a percentage or grade. Information literacy is not independent of context.

There is no right or wrong way to be information literate, there are simply ways that work, or don’t work, for an individual in their current context.

Illustration by Josh Filhol from ‘The Fishscale of Academicness’ (Gröppel-Wegener and Walton)

Planned routes suggested and tested by knowledgeable guides

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‘An Educational Researcher’s Journey’ (Delasalle and Cullen)

Part one: Literature

Search Principles

• When you’re already

familiar with all the

relevant articles you

find, then it’s time to

stop searching.

• Follow the reference

trail: when you find a

good article, look at the

papers that it cites.

• Take advice from

experienced

researchers.

• Keep learning

throughout your career:

the search

tools available to you

will keep evolving.

a kind of A-Z guide to literature searching grows from one individual’s journey …

this chapter works rather like an illustrative travel guide.

‘An Educational Researcher’s Journey’ (Delasalle and

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‘The Information Quest’ (Tolly)

‘Exploring information landscapes and bubbles’ (Burkhardt and Carbery)

In the journey into the unknown, play and learning both require an exceeding of preset boundaries. To cross this threshold is to shift into the unimagined ‘now’ of creativity.

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Two clear routes into the forest emerged. We’ve described these as following the paths and exploring the landscape.

‘Journeying Without a Map’ (Johnson and Walsh)

‘The Information Quest’ (Tolly)

There is, then, a contextual disjointedness to teaching and learning:

the two phases are simultaneously

intimate and entirely distinct.

‘At Work in the Phenomenal Field’ (Norton)

‘The Library’ (Ramsden)

‘The Information Quest’ (Tolly)

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Illustration by Josh Filhol from ‘The Fishscale of Academicness’ (Gröppel-Wegener and Walton)

‘Memories’ (Dimmock, Hoon and MacLellan)

‘Journeying Without a Map’ (Johnson and Walsh)

Illustration by John Tenniel, 1866 (public domain)

Being on hand, like a guide who lurks behind trees or appears at difficult forks in the path like a Cheshire cat on the branch, could also be a useful role for librarians to take …

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‘Memories’ (Dimmock, Hoon and MacLellan)

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We gather and collect garments as a way of

retaining precious thoughts

‘Information seeking and challenging the concept of the unreliable narrator’

(Andrews and Soulsby-Kermode)

Image: ‘Watch comic strip’ by Penny Andrews and Steve Horry

‘Exploring information landscapes and bubbles’ (Burkhardt and Carbery)

‘Information seeking and challenging the concept of the unreliable narrator’

(Andrews and Soulsby-Kermode)

Image: ‘Radiator comic strip’ by Penny Andrews and Steve Horry

‘The Library’ (Ramsden)

Image: © Nevit Dilmen, Wikimedia Commons

‘Exploring information landscapes and bubbles’ (Burkhardt and Carbery)

Illustration by Josh Filhol from ‘The Fishscale of Academicness’ (Gröppel-Wegener and Walton)

‘Information seeking and challenging the concept of the unreliable narrator’

(Andrews and Soulsby-Kermode)

Image: ‘Overload’ by Marika Soulsby-Kermode

“It communicates the rewards of collaborative partnerships and the dynamic ways student learning can be supported.”

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Would it be grey and with dangerous teeth, because it has no illustrations and uses

unfamiliar words?

If this source was a sea creature, what would it be like – and why?

Would it be fat, because it gives you a lot of information on a very specific topic?

Would it be puffed up, because it seems a bit pompous and without real point?

Would it be curled up,because the informationis presented in a roundabout way?

‘The Fishscale of Academicness’ (Gröppel-Wegener and Walton)

Illustration by Josh Filhol from ‘The Fishscale of Academicness’ (Gröppel-Wegener and Walton)

“Has this book made you think? Edified you a little (or a lot)? Advanced the idea of information literacy at all?” The answer to all three: a resounding “yes”

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‘A Virtual Conversation Between Two Artists’ (Amado and Alarcón)

Image: ‘Two Lighthouses’ by Inês Amado

‘The Library’ (Ramsden)

Image: © Nevit Dilmen, Wikimedia Commons

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‘A Virtual Conversation Between Two Artists’ (Amado and Alarcón)

Image: ‘Interactive Metro’ by Ximena Alarcón

This journey narrates the way that I sought information to try and make some sense of my sexual identity ...

‘I Am What I Am’ (Osborne)

‘The Information Quest’ (Tolly)

Even the dogs are learning:

Zack was teaching Bonnie how to fight and to bark with more

aggression.

‘The Stable Group’ (Mathew)

The library was small, and had an adults’ and a children’s section. It also had its own unique smell of old book and furniture polish.

‘I Am What I Am’ (Osborne)

‘A Virtual Conversation Between Two Artists’ (Amado and Alarcón)

Image: ‘Relocated’ by Inês Amado

The library may even rebrand as The

Zone of Proximal Development.

‘At Work in the Phenomenal Field’ (Norton)

In a way you can imagine the information you get from a particular source as playing cards of the same

suit.

In a basic Annotated Bibliography, you present your reader with what in Poker would be a series of Straight Flushes –

cards of the same suit, in sequence. Just like they came out of the pack.

‘The Winning Hand of Independence’ (Gröppel-Wegener)

‘A Virtual Conversation Between Two Artists’ (Amado and Alarcón)

‘Information seeking and challenging the concept of the unreliable narrator’

(Andrews and Soulsby-Kermode)

Image: ‘Doodle’ by Marika Soulsby-Kermode

We are extending,

prolonging, each other’s thoughts,

feelings and dreams

‘A Virtual Conversation Between Two Artists’ (Amado and Alarcón)

‘The Library’ (Ramsden)