UK academics' conceptions of, and pedagogy for, information literacy
Sheila Webber and Bill Johnston. 3 year project with one research assistant. It will start in 2002 and is due to finish in 2005.
http://dis.shef.ac.uk/literacy/ahrb.htm

Success Factors in Effective Information Literacy Instruction is a 3-year project which started in 2000. It is funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and managed by Dr Heidi Julien at the University of Alberta.
http://www.mgmt.dal.ca/slis/Releases/sshrcgrant.html
See also: Julien, H., and Boon, S. (2002) “From the Front Line: Information Literacy Instruction in Canadian Academic Libraries.” Reference Services Review 30(2), 143-49.
Julien, H. (2002) Miles to go before we sleep (ppt). Paper presented at the 2002 WILU conference.

Infolit project
An information literacy project "working within five of the higher education institutions in the Western Cape in South Africa". It started in 1995 and is due to finish in 2002.
http://www.adamastor.ac.za/Academic/Infolit/origins.htm

JUBILEE project: JISC User behaviour in information seeking longditudinal evaluation of electronic information services. University of Northumbria at Newcastle.
"seeks to predict, monitor and characterise users' information seeking behaviour" (in UK higher education) First & second annual reports are available.
http://online.northumbria.ac.uk/faculties/art/information_studies/imri/rarea/im/hfe/jub/hfjubilee.htm

JUSTEIS: JISC User Behaviour Monitoring and Evaluation Framework Department of Information and Library Studies University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
They have published a detailed first annual report
http://www.dils.aber.ac.uk/dils/Research/Justeis/JISCTop.htm

LIK, das Lernsystem Informationskompetenz is a project based at the Fachhochschule in Hamburg, Germany. It is based on the premise that information literacy delivered through libraries of various kinds contributes to lifelong learning to benefit all aspects of life.
http://www.bui.fh-hamburg.de/projekt/lik/index.html

University of California at Los Angeles Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. (2001) Pacific Bell/UCLA Initiative for 21st Century Literacies Los Angeles: UCLA. Available at http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/21stcent/
A project with $1 milliion funding which aims to explore the meaning of literacy in a 21st century context, including information literacy.

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Bruce, Christine. (2000) Information literacy research: dimensions of the emerging collective consciousness." Australian academic and research libraries 31 (2), 91-109.

Bruce, Christine. (1999) Information Literacy: An International Review of Programs and Research. Auckland, New Zealand: University of Auckland, 1999.
http://www.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/conf99/bruce.htm

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The Big Blue: information skills for students
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)-funded project researching the provision of information skills training for students in UK further and higher education. Now complete, it includes a project report and case studies etc.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/bigblue/

Greenstein, D and Watson Healy, L. (2002) National Survey Documents Effects of Internet Use on Libraries CLIR issues, (27). http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues27.html#national
Summarises results of a study, Dimensions and Use of the Scholarly Information Environment undertaken by the Digital Library Federation (DLF) and research firm Outsell. The full report is available on the CLIR site: at http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub110/contents.html. It looks at how print and electronic resources are being used by academics and students and what problems these patrons perceive in their information use. Watch the Digital Library Federation page has some further background.

STEFI: Studieren mit elektronischen Fachinformationen http://stefi.de/
Project carried out by the Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund. Studied the use of electronic resources in higher education. Findings included: information literacy of students needed improvement and they were uncertain about information quality issues; Electronic sources were becoming the number one source, but there tended to be unsystematic browsing. This project finished in 2001.

Joint, Nick and Kemp, Bob. (2000) Information skills training in support of a joint electronic library in Glasgow: the GAELS project approach to library courseware development." Aslib proceedings 52 (8), 301-312.

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