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JANE SECKER
Biography:
Dr Jane Secker is the Learning Technology
Librarian at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
She works in the Centre for Learning Technology and advises academic
staff about copyright issues and using library resources in e-learning.
She has considerable experience in research and has worked on projects
funded by JISC, the British Library as well as internal projects
funded by the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and UCL. She has
recently written a book, Electronic resources in the virtual
learning environment: a guide for librarians (published by
Chandos Publishing).
Jane is the Chair of the HERON User Group, which represents
over 70 librarians in the UK undertaking copyright and digitization
programmes. She was recently appointed to the Universities UK Copyright
Working Group who are negotiating a digitisation licence with the
Copyright Licensing Agency for the Higher Education sector. Jane has
experience in academic writing, not only her book, but she has published
journal articles, conference reports and book reviews. In addition
she regularly attends and presents at conferences such as the Association
for Learning Technology (ALT) Conference. She also serves on the editorial
board of Program and is a referee for the ALT Journal and conference.
Jane is Chair of the newly established independent group for librarians
in the social sciences, ALISS. She is also the Conference Officer
for the CILIP CSG-Information Literacy Group and on the organising
committee of LILAC 2005 .
Title:
Lessons from LILAC 2005 (Librarians'
Information Literacy Annual Conference
Summary:
This session will reflect on issues that have emerged
from the first LILAC conference and consider how we can move the
Information Literacy agenda forward. The traditional role
of a librarian was to concentrate on locating resources, that role
has now changed to include critical evaluation and analysis, how
to identify quality resources and how to manage information effectively.
Skills such as these empower people to make informed decisions about
the information they are looking at. Information Literacy
is part of life long learning, it is a core transferable skill which
everyone not only requires but is entitled to in today's 'global
information society'.
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