RUTH STUBBINGS

Biography: Ruth Stubbings has worked in special, commercial and academic libraries.  She is currently Academic Services Manager at Loughborough University Library and leads a team of eleven that support the learning, teaching & research needs of the Social Science & Humanities Faculty.  

Ruth is particularly interested in the development of students information literacy skills, study skills, the exploitation and marketing of library services and managing users expectations.  To this end she has been involved in several projects that ensure greater access to resources and the development of teaching material that helps develop students information searching skills.

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'.