Category Archives: Updates

ANCIL across the Atlantic

Posted on January 31, 2013 by librariangoddess

We’re honoured (and excited) that ANCIL was chosen as one of four significant UK information literacy models described in detail by Justine Martin in her report, Learning from Recent British Information Literacy Models, which was submitted recently to ACRL’s Information Literacy … Continue reading →

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Rethinking information literacy

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Jane Secker

Our new book came out shortly before Christmas published by Facet. Emma and I were thrilled to receive our copies and it is available to buy now! The book is divided into ten chapters with an introduction, conclusion and afterward. … Continue reading →

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ANCIL Seminar at LSE

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Jane Secker

A few weeks ago I presented a lunchtime seminar with Maria Bell to LSE Library staff and some colleagues from the Centre for Learning Technology. We were reporting on the ANCIL at LSE study that we have been undertaking with … Continue reading →

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To Dublin with the new curriculum

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Jane Secker

I’ve just returned from Trinity College Dublin, where I presented at the CONUL Information Literacy Seminar on 14th June 2012. I was speaking about the Arcadia research to develop the new curriculum, strategies for implementation and the subsequent work that … Continue reading →

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Update on ANCIL at LSE

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Jane Secker

I returned to work fired up after the AldinHE and Lilac conferences and got stuck into trying to create a simple questionnaire for LSE staff based on the ANCIL strands. It was aimed at staff who might not have time … Continue reading →

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Four seasons pizza

Posted on March 30, 2012 by librariangoddess

We’ve been fairly quiet recently – paradoxically, it’s because there’s a lot going on in world of ANCIL! First up, Jane and Katy have been doing an audit of information literacy provision for undergraduates at LSE, using ANCIL to map … Continue reading →

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ANCIL the movie is launched

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Jane Secker

Just before Christmas Emma, Katy, Helen and I were asked by John to star in a short video to publicise the work we had been doing on the new curriculum. We were all somewhat nervous about being plonked in front … Continue reading →

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Ongoing in 2012

Posted on January 3, 2012 by librariangoddess

A great start to the new year! We’ll be giving workshops about ANCIL at no fewer than four conferences in 2012. You can find me, Jane, Katy and Helen – or some combination of us – speaking at … libraries@cambridge: … Continue reading →

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2011 in review

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Jane Secker

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,300 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it … Continue reading →

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Hello world (of information literacy)!

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Jane Secker

Welcome to the new home of ANCIL – A New Curriculum for Information Literacy. We’re currently in the process of transferring our project research across from our old pbworks workspace. The ANCIL project research ran from May to July 2011, … Continue reading →

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