Taking a step back in time. Literally and Figuratively.

I spent the last two weeks preparing, flying and helping my sister with her wedding up in Big Island, HI.

She lives near the town of Hawi (pronounced "Ha-vee") in the general vicinity of North Kohala at the very North tip of the Big Island and while green, lush and beautiful... there was not a wifi hotspot to be found. Library student, that I am, of course what's one of the first things I sought out in this small town (right after a place to eat of course)... that's right. I scoped out the town library--Bond Memorial Public Library in North Kohala (below).

Bond Memorial Public Library in North Kohala -- Big Island, HI

Now I know how to have a good time, but I didn't go up there solely for a good time (family, what are you going to do?) annnnnnd, I the clock doesn't stop for my school assignments. Needless to say, it made for quite the challenge to get online at all to get anything done so here I am, finally getting in an entry almost two and a half weeks after my last one!

Whatever time I could escape my obligations as matron of honor and general all-around big sister, support and emotional rock, I carved out small pockets of time where I could hang out in here and read. In anticipation of this upcoming unplugging from the grid, I had printed out a few articles to look at that I thought might help me in the direction I had planned to take my research on information literacy instruction.

My topic is going to focus on articles regarding IL Instruction via Digital Initiatives & Emerging Technology: How we're using technology now to teach students Information Literacy. Because technology is such a rapidly moving target, I wanted to focus on articles no later than 2009... but the more current the better.

I've been perusing a bibliography on IL Instruction by Johnson, Sproles & Detmering (2011) which has landed me at least three really pertinent articles I could probably use for my topic. If they're good, I plan on chasing the references to see if I can't locate any good leads for other pertinent articles. Because of my strict requirement on article dates, I doubt it'll be much good because of the time it takes the peer-review process to get the papers out and published but it won't hurt to give the references a quick once over.

References I've got on deck so far:

Bobish, G. (2010). Instruction 2.0: What are we actually doing?. Communications In Information Literacy, 4(1), 93-111.

Johnson, A. , Sproles, C. , & Detmering, R. (2011). Library instruction and information literacy 2010. Reference Services Review, 39(4), 551-627. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00907321111186640

*The purpose of this 78-page-paper is to provide a selected bibliography of recent resources on library instruction and information literacy. PayDirt!

Wong, G. W. (2010). Facilitating Students' Intellectual Growth in Information Literacy Teaching. Reference & User Services Quarterly, 50(2), 114-118.

Also, in my research, I've come across this really interesting video about digital literacy for our youngsters in school. It's a really interesting comment on how we can teach information literacy through media education in our schools. http://www.edutopia.org/media-literacy-skills-video

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