ANTS

I think I have mentioned ANTS (Animated Tutorial Sharing Project) before. "The goal of the project is to create a shared repository of library, research, and information literacy tutorials created using screencast software such as Adobe Captivate, Qarbon Viewlet Builder, Techsmith's Camtasia Studio , or similar products." They recently announced that they have hit 99 tutorials and the tutorials can be accessed through various routes, including downloading the files and viewing them via http://liontv.blip.tv/ They are also starting to syndicate them via high definition on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/user/1LIONTV
The ANTS website is at http://ants.wetpaint.com/
Photo by Sheila Webber: Frosty Hedges, Gregynog Hall, Wales (sorry, I didn't get to write up the Welsh Information Literacy meeting yet...)

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Last issue of Internet Resources Newsletter

Roddy MacLeod has been masterminding the Internet Resources Newsletter for about 15 years, but he is now taking early retirement and the newsletter is retiring with him. The last issue is at
http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn178/irn178.html

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Project Information Literacy update

The USA's Project Information Literacy has published its latest research report Lessons Learned: How College Students Find Information in the Digital Age, which describes results from a survey of 2,318 students carried out last Spring at six U.S. universities. There were also some follow-up interviews.
From a superficial skim I would say that in general the findings tally with those that have emerged from UK studies of student use of resources, e.g. the findings of the excellent JUSTEIS studies (see e.g. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june03/urquhart/06urquhart.html or http://www.dil.aber.ac.uk/dils/Research/Justeis/JISCTop.htm ) and the report on the information behaviour of the researcher of the future (http://www.publishing.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour.html ) e.g. a reasonably narrow range of resources often used, use of search engines, lack of use of librarians, the importance of the lecturer in guiding behaviour, continued use of "traditional resources". I will certainly have a longer look, especially as it teases out some of these issues in more depth. Project homepage at http://projectinfolit.org/ and project report:
Head, A. and Eisenberg, M. (2009) Lessons Learned: How College Students Find Information in the Digital Age. Seatttle: University of Washington. http://projectinfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_Fall2009_Year1Report_12_2009.pdf
Photo by Sheila Webber: Library, Gregynog Hall, December 2009: I was there on Monday and Tuesday for a meeting about developing an Information Literacy Strategy for Wales: I will blog about that tomorrow!

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