Papers by Annemaree LLoyd
This qualitative research study examined the impact of student leadership experiences on the pers... more This qualitative research study examined the impact of student leadership experiences on the personal and professional lives of alumni three to five years after graduation. Twenty-six former student members of two student alumni leadership groups at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were interviewed by telephone. Interviews focused on participants' recall of their student leadership experience and its impact on their current lives. Analysis of the interviews identified the following themes in alumni responses: (1) student leadership resulted in meeting and working with a wide range of people; (2) student leadership involvement enhanced leadership, management, and teamwork skills; (3) student leadership increased the sense of pride in and connection to the university; (4) professional leadership, management, and teamwork skills were enhanced by student leadership experience; (5) personal and professional interpersonal communication skills were improved by student leadership experience; and (6) self-confidence and professional poise were increased by student leadership experience. Examples of student comments illustrate each of the identified themes. The original proposal for the study is attached. (DB)
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2003
Media power Big money, politics and television: the connections become closer, and the public int... more Media power Big money, politics and television: the connections become closer, and the public interest weaker, throughout much of the Western media. In the UK, where a great public broadcaster is powerful enough to withstand the trend, the air has been noisy with the sound of wounds being self−inflicted. John Lloyd takes the Hutton inquiry as a starting point to investigate current media developments in the UK, in Russia, Italy and in the USA.
Journal of Documentation
In the "Cult of the 'I'" (Golub, Hansson and Seldén, 2017) three Scandinavian iSchools are compar... more In the "Cult of the 'I'" (Golub, Hansson and Seldén, 2017) three Scandinavian iSchools are compared with three American. The purpose is ambitious, to "establish any potential differences between American and Scandinavian iSchools" (50). This is pursued through a statistical analysis of curricula together with a qualitative study of three documents. The current text is a response from researchers active at the only certified Swedish iSchool, the Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS) at the University of Borås, one of three Scandinavian schools studied. The "Cult of the 'I'" article is written by colleagues at another Library and Information Science (LIS) department in Sweden, situated within the
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
Previous research has demonstrated that professional narratives reference discourses that shape t... more Previous research has demonstrated that professional narratives reference discourses that shape the practice of information literacy within higher education. This article uses discourse analysis method to identify how information literacy discourses construct and position teaching librarians within higher education. Texts analysed include four recent English-language models of information literacy and 16 textbooks. Analysis suggests the existence of two distinct narratives related to the role, expertise and professional practice of teaching librarians. In the outward-facing narrative librarian work is typically absent from guidelines for practice. In contrast, book introductions, which constitute the inward-facing narrative, centre professional librarians yet simultaneously position them as incompetent, or as lacking the skills and understandings that they need to be effective in this setting. These narratives constitute a form of othering that threatens professional practice at a t...
Risk and resilience in radically redefined information environments; information practices during the COVID ‐19 pandemic
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
The discourses of information literacy practice create epistemological assumptions about how the ... more The discourses of information literacy practice create epistemological assumptions about how the practice should happen, who should be responsible and under what conditions instruction should be given. This paper employs a discourse analysis method (Potter, 2008) to identify discourses of information literacy and the learner from within higher education focused professional texts. Texts analysed include 4 recent English-language models of information literacy and 16 textbooks. Analysis suggests that within higher education, information literacy is shaped by 2 conflicting narratives. The outward facing narrative positions information literacy as an empowering practice that equips learners with the knowledge and skills that they need within complex and fast-paced information environments. The inward facing narrative positions learners as incompetent or as lacking the ability to operate within higher education. This deficit perception consequently threatens the sustainability of inform...
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
A study of enthusiast car restorers is used to illustrate how an information practice approach ca... more A study of enthusiast car restorers is used to illustrate how an information practice approach can provide information science researchers with a richer, more nuanced understanding of the complex interrelationship between people, technology and information. The study's fieldwork adopted an ethnographic approach incorporating both semi-structured interviews and in the garage ethnographic observation. Analysis was undertaken using an inductive, thematic approach. The findings demonstrate that participants' information environments are rich and complex. Participants' accounts emphasised the corporeal and embodied nature of the restoration process, and this may account for why they privileged the social networks they had developed, often over many decades, over online resources and communities. The findings indicate that participants are engaged in much more than applied problem solving. What is also evident is that engagement in the social world of car restoration, and the networks of social knowledge sharing it affords, is significant for the emotional support it provides for older men who often lose these networks later in life. In a sense, the participants are not only rebuilding their cars but also their own sense of self
Shaping the contours of fractured landscapes: Extending the layering of an information perspective on refugee resettlement
Information Processing & Management
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
The concept of embodied information practices and its implications for information research and p... more The concept of embodied information practices and its implications for information research and professional practice are examined. The presentation draws on the researchers' empirical research in a range of different contexts (firefighting, nursing, chronic illness, theatre production and archaeology) to provide insights into the experiential, affective and embodied elements of information practices.
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
Recognising the importance of exploring multimodal experiences of information, this paper provide... more Recognising the importance of exploring multimodal experiences of information, this paper provides a detailed examination of the scope of visual research methods within information practices research. More specifically, the paper will use the examples from one completed study (Lloyd and Wilkinson, 2017) and one ongoing study (Hicks, in progress) to discuss and provide a detailed examination of the use, affordances and limitations of two research methods that centre upon participant-created photographs: photo-elicitation and photovoice. Demonstrating that the use of photographs helps to evoke and communicate complex meaning as well as to mediate between linguistic, temporal and spatial constraints, this study highlights the continuing need to develop research methods that privilege participants’ understandings and perspectives.
Journal of Documentation, 2017
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce a range of sensitising themes that may help to ... more Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce a range of sensitising themes that may help to frame the emerging concept of fractured landscapes. Design/methodology/approach Key concepts are drawn from the forced migration field, from social theory and from Library and information science research to frame the concept of fractured landscape research. Methodological and ethical aspects that influence research are also introduced. Findings The importance of nomenclature is identified in relation to designations of refugee and migrant. The concept of a fractured landscape provides a suitable way of describing the disruption that is caused to refugees’ information landscapes in the process of transition and resettlement. The sensitising themes such as the exilic journey, liminality, integration, bonding and bridging capital are introduced to provide a way of framing a deeper analysis of the information experience of people who must reconcile previously established ways of knowing wit...
Journal of Information Science, 2016
Refugee youth are faced with complex information needs that require them to identify and map the ... more Refugee youth are faced with complex information needs that require them to identify and map the everyday spaces that can contribute to their learning outside the formal schooling system. The use of everyday spaces by refugee youth aged 16–25 was investigated using photovoice and interview data collection methods. The findings of the study suggest that the information needs and information literacy practices of this cohort arise from the desire to connect with a new community, to learn new social rules and to become established, while at the same time supporting the information needs of other family members and dealing with the social challenges that arise from cultural expectations. These challenges require them to connect with a wide range of everyday spaces to support their learning needs.
Learning as Being ‘Stirred In’ to Practices
Practice Theory Perspectives on Pedagogy and Education, 2017
Learning to Put Out the Red Stuff: Becoming Information Literate through Discursive Practice
The Library Quarterly, Jan 3, 2007
From recent doctoral research into information literacy and workplace learning, an understanding ... more From recent doctoral research into information literacy and workplace learning, an understanding of information literacy as a complex constellation of experiences and relationships with a range of information modalities is emerging. It is constituted through the connections among ...
Information literacy landscapes : information literacy in education, workplace and everyday contexts
For the past 20 years or so, it has been largely described by a rather formalised skills approach... more For the past 20 years or so, it has been largely described by a rather formalised skills approach within the formal education context. Schools, universities and libraries have been largely considered to be its base and its natural focus. Underpinning this approach has been the assumption ...
Framing information literacy as information practice: site ontology and practice theory
Journal of Documentation, Mar 8, 2010
PurposeInformation literacy is a rich and complex social information practice that is constructed... more PurposeInformation literacy is a rich and complex social information practice that is constructed according to specific practical understandings, rules and teleoaffective features which characterise a social site or setting. This paper aims to explore the philosophical and theoretical perspective of practice theory, in particular, the ontological work of Schatzki. These perspectives are to be used to frame an understanding of the features of information literacy as sociocultural practice.Design/methodology/approachA theoretical perspective is introduced to examine the concept of information literacy practice by framing this analysis through a site ontology developed by Schatzki. Sociocultural and practice theory are employed in this exploration of information literacy as sociocultural practice and provide a framework for architecture of information literacy practice.FindingsInformation literacy can be understood as a critical information practice which is organised and arranged through the site of the social, rather than as a reified and decontexualised set of skills.Research limitations/implicationsFraming information literacy research through site ontology and the use of a practice perspective has implications for further research into information literacy and for the development of pedagogic practices related to information literacy instructionOriginality/valueThe paper offers an alternate way of framing information literacy by introducing the concepts related to practice theory.
Things are not always as they seem: perceptions of the role of librarians in TAFE
Journal of Documentation, 2015
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce and explore the concept of information resili... more Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce and explore the concept of information resilience. Design/methodology/approach – The concept of information resilience emerges from a qualitative study that explored the health information experience and information practices of resettling refugees. Semi-structured face-to-face interviews were employed and the data collected were analysed using an grounded theory approach. Findings – The present study describes information resilience as an outcome of information literacy practice. As an emerging concept information resilience has the potential to focus research attention towards the critical role that information and information practices such as information literacy have in supporting people whose knowledge bases, social networks and information landscapes have become disrupted during transition. Practical implications – Public libraries role in support the development of information resilience is considered. Social implications –...
Challenges for future research on learning, literacies and information practices
Practising Information Literacy, 2010
This volume has put forward new ways of understanding the phenomena of learning and schooling, th... more This volume has put forward new ways of understanding the phenomena of learning and schooling, the nature of literacy, and the role of various sources and types of information in the development of expertise. It has highlighted various ways in which information literacy as ...
A conceptual architecture for information literacy practice
Information Literacy Landscapes, 2010
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