Sheffield iSchool has a strong presence again at the Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference taking place in Glasgow on 11-13 April. Yesterday, Prof Sheila Corrall delivered a paper on Webscale Discovery and Information Literacy with John Dove, President of Credo Reference. Today, Sheila will lead a workshop on Exploring Good Practice for Research Supervisors in Information Literacy Development with Ruth Stubbings of Loughborough University, while Pam McKinney and Barbara Sen present a paper on Reflection for Learning: Understanding the Value of Reflective Writing for Information Literacy Development. In addition, Munirah Abdulhadi is presenting a poster on Collaborative Social Tagging and Information Literacy, based on her PhD research supervised by Barbara and Dr Paul Clough.
A project to create a raspberry pi weather station is currently live in the Information School. The Sheffield Pi weather station has been created by Romilly Close, undergraduate Aerospace Engineering student at the University of Sheffield. The project was funded by the Sheffield Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) scheme and is being supervised by Dr Jo Bates, Paula Goodale and Fred Sonnenwald from the Information School. Information about the Sheffield Pi station and how to create your own can be found on the project website . You can also see live data from the Sheffield Pi station on Plot.ly , and further information can also be found on the Met Office Weather Observations Website . This work compliments the School’s existing project entitled ‘The Secret Life of a Weather Datum’ which explores socio-cultural influences on weather data. This project is funded under the AHRC’s Digital Transformations Big Data call. It aims to pilot a new approach to im
Comments