The Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, is holding a free half-day event on 30 March 2007, on information literacy research , featuring speakers from The Department plus a visiting speaker: Dr Christine Bruce, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. The Programme consists of: Introduction ( Professor Sheila Corrall, University of Sheffield); Guest keynote: Information literacy: models from research (Dr Christine Bruce); Information Literacy research in the Department of Information Studies, and the UK research agenda ( Sheila Webber and Nigel Ford); Conceptions of information literacy of UK Chemistry and English academics ( Sheila Webber , University of Sheffield, and Bill Johnston, University of Strathclyde); Mining of search activity data to support information literac y (Professor Nigel Ford and Dr Andrew Madden , University of Sheffield ). There will be opportunities for questions and discus