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Papers and presentations by Bill and Sheila on the Sheffield server

• Webber, S. and Johnston, B. (2005) “Information literacy in the curriculum: selected findings from a phenomenographic study of UK conceptions of, and pedagogy for, information literacy” In: Rust, C. (Ed) Improving Student Learning: Diversity and Inclusivity: Proceedings of the 11th ISL symposium, Birmingham, 6-8 September 2004. Oxford: Oxford Brookes University. pp212-224. http://dis.shef.ac.uk/sheila/literacy/webber-johnston-isl.pdf
• Webber, S. and Johnston, B. (2003) “Information literacy in the United Kingdom: a critical review.” In: Basili, C. (Ed) Information Literacy in Europe. Rome: Italian National Research Council. 258-283. http://dis.shef.ac.uk/sheila/webber-johnston-uk.pdf
• Webber, S. and Johnston, B. (2002) "Information literacy: the social action agenda." In: Booker, D. (Ed) Information Literacy: The Social Action Agenda: Proceedings of the 5th National Information Literacy Conference. Adelaide: University of South Australia Library. 68-80. ISBN 0 86803-929-2.http://dis.shef.ac.uk/literacy/adelaide-webber-johnston.pdf
• PowerPoint presentation: Sheila Webber. Information literacy around the world; presented at the Online 2002 conference, London, December 2002
• PowerPoint presentation: Sheila Webber. Progress and prospects [in Information literacy] in the education sector: an academic perspective; given at a TFPL one day seminar in London, December 2002.
• A PowerPoint presentation of our paper on Assessment for information literacy: the challenge for lifelong learning from the 2nd International Lifelong Learning conference in Yeppoon, Australia, June 2002 (this has some overlap with the ITIL paper, below, but adds some more ideas, in line with the title). There is also a handout with the bibliography
• A PowerPoint presentation of our paper on Assessment for information literacy from the March 2002 IT and Information Literacy Conference.
• A review by of the IT and IL conference by Sheila Webber (a slightly abbreviated version of this appeared as: Webber, S. (2002) "Getting the knowledge." Library and information update, 1 (7), 52-3.
• PowerPoint presentation from Sheila Webber: Information literacy: sharing the vision (presented at Online 2001, Olympia, London, 6th December 2001.)
• Information literacy and community: a UK perspective (presented at the 5th National Information Literacy Conference held in Adelaide 1 Dec. 2001)
• Full text of: Webber, S. (2001) Myths and opportunities. Library Association Record, 103 (9), 548-549.
• Detailed report on Bill and Sheila's seminar (MS Word document) Information literacy and pedagogy (held in Edinburgh in August 2001) by Moira Massey
• PowerPoint slides from the same seminar.
• A PowerPoint presentation of Bill Johnston's paper on How can you tell that you are information literate? presented at the Online 2000 conference in London, December 2000.
• Towards the information literate graduate: rethinking the undergraduate curriculum in business studies. paper by Johnston, B. and Webber, S. (2000) [pdf version: 102K]
• Article summarising the aims, philosophy and perceptions of the Strathclyde class (written for circulation at a SCONUL conference in July 2000)

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