LILAC and Citation Project Workshop in Savannah!

The LILAC Project and the Citation Project will present a joint workshop from 1:45-4pm on September 29, 2018, at the Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy in Savannah, GA. Early bird registration for the conference has been extended through September 3, 2018.


We hope you will join us!

LILAC Project Updates

If you will be attending CCCC in Portland next month, some of us will be presenting a panel on LILAC, so we hope you will join us. The session will be held from 3:30 PM to 4:45 PM on Friday, March 17, 2017. Check for the room in the printed or online CCCC schedule.

We can still use more subjects, so do what you can to recruit subjects. If you need more numbers, let me know, and I’ll extend your range. If you are not currently a LILAC Project partner, please email jwalker@georgiasouthern.edu for information about how you can join us!

We also need to get started coding videos. If you or any volunteers would like to start on this process, please let me know that as well!

Looking forward to a fantastic 2017 for the LILAC Project!

LILAC Project Workshop

LILAC and Citation Project Workshop
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
Savannah, GA
October 1, 2016
1-4 p.m.

Workshop Facilitators:
Jeanne Bohannon, Kennesaw State University
Sandra Jamieson, Drew University
Jinrong Li, Georgia Southern University
Janice R. Walker, Georgia Southern University
Carrie Wastal, University of California, San Diego


Workshop Description:
The LILAC Project (Learning Information Literacy across the Curriculum) is a multi-institutional study of student information-seeking behaviors (lilac-group.blogspot.com). This year we join forces with the Citation Project, a study of how students use the information they find (CitationProject.net), to consider what both studies may have to tell us about students’ information literacy “habits of mind.”

Participants will gain hands-on experience with the research-aloud protocol (RAP) video captures used as part of this study and identifying and coding subject behaviors.  We will demonstrate coding and analysis of information-seeking behaviors of both native speakers of English and multilingual writers in composition courses, share preliminary findings of a project examining the information literacy of multilingual writers, and discuss its relevance in composition classes, ESL academic writing classes, and content courses in different disciplines. In both large- and small-group discussions, we will consider what we are learning from results of these studies and what we can do with the information, sharing our experience in data analysis and results interpretation, and inviting participants to discuss how to consider the framing of LILAC projects from different disciplinary perspectives. The addition of citation context analysis like that done by the Citation Project allows participants to explore both the research process and the products of that research. The triangulation of data made possible by this combined research provides deeper and more nuanced understanding of information literacy in general and use and misuse of sources in particular.

Don't forget to register!

Just a reminder: Registration is open for the Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy in Savannah, Georgia, September 30-October 1, 2016. We will also host a reception the evening of September 29 for this year's Keynote Speaker, Daniel Anderson. Register before August 29, 2016, before late registration fees are applied!

Online registration is available at http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ce/conferences/infolit/infolitregistration/. I'm happy to answer any questions about the conference!

REGISTRATION FOR THE GEORGIA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION LITERACY IS NOW OPEN!

You're invited to attend the Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy that will take place in historic Savannah, Georgia at the Coastal Georgia Center, September 30 - October 1, 2016.

Visit the conference website at http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ce/conferences/infolit/ for more information.

Student Success in Writing Conference, Savannah, GA

LILAC Project members Jeanne Bohannon, Jenna Lancaster, Jinrong Li, Janice R. Walker, and Leigh Ann Williams will be presenting a double session at the upcoming Student Success in Writing Conference to be held at the Coastal Georgia Center in Savannah, GA, March 11, 2016.

We plan to present a bit of background information on LILAC, introduce the RAP videos and coding procedures (e.g. a norming session), followed by small and large group discussions (pretty much what we did at the Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy this past fall).

We hope you will be able to join us--or bring (or send) others who might be interested in our work to join us.

For more information on the conference, including registration (early bird registration of $90 is available until February 15, 2016; regular registration is $100 until February 29, 2016; and late registration of $110 begins on March 1) and accommodations, visit the conference Web site at https://studentsuccessinwriting.wordpress.com/.

We hope to see you there! 

Interviews, RAPs, and other Fancy Stuff

One of our students recently agreed to an interview about information literacy, what he has been taught, what he thinks he needs to know, and more. I really enjoyed talking with him and I hope you will enjoy the video as well. It is now posted to YouTube at https://youtu.be/kcItFxoUYmU.

By the way, we have been posting RAPs to our YouTube channel as well. While we still have lots more to post, you can access the interview and the RAPs that have been posted thus far at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv1NCZ-tlvcRybEqxbL-sww.

We have now collected survey and RAPs from well over 200 subjects, but we have a long way to go to reach our goal. Please let me know if I can do anything to help you. The hardest part of this project is getting students to volunteer. Luckily, some of the faculty at my institution, from a variety of disciplines, decided to award their students a few extra credit points for participating, and that has really driven up the number of participants! Talk to faculty at your institution about how they can encourage their students to volunteer.