Draft Programme (Last update: Feb.12, 2012)
EMMILE in libraries (and beyond)
European Meeting on Media and Information Literacy Education
incorporating “IASL Regional Meeting – Europe”, “IFLA SLRC Section Midterm Meeting”, “IASL-IFLA Joint Steering Committee Meeting”
Milan, February 27-29, 2012
Feb. 27, 2012
“Raising the 21st Century Citizen”
8.00 Registration, conference material and welcome coffee
9.30 Welcome: Regione Lombardia – Greetings: Stefano Parise (Presidente AIB), Ulrich Braeß (Direttore Goethe-Institut Mailand), Randi Lundvall (IFLA SLRC Chair), Giuseppe Colosio (Direttore Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per la Lombardia), Gianni Puglisi (Presidente UNESCO-CNI)
10.00 Introduction
EMMILE in Libraries (and beyond)
Luisa Marquardt (Università “Roma Tre”, Roma, Italy - Director Europe for IASL)
10.15
(Digital) Citizenship and Libraries in Europe
Aldo Pirola (Direttore Settore Biblioteche. Comune di Milano / Eblida Executive Committee)
10.45
Information Literacy: Global Trends
Albert Boekhorst (IFLA IL Section, Brazil)
11.15
Challenges of Educational Reform in Germany and the Potential Role of Information Literacy
11.45
Media and Information Literacy (MIL) as a composite concept:
- The UNESCO model MIL curriculum for school teachers Alton Grizzle (UNESCO, Paris)
- UNESCO MIL Indicators Irmgarda Kasinskaite-Buddeberg (UNESCO, Paris)
12.45 Discussion
13.00 Buffet Lunch
14.00 Panel on Information Literacy* development and training in educational contexts:
creating knowledgeable and critical 21st century citizens
Introduction and Coordination:
*IL is here a generic term for teaching and learning how to search, locate, use and evaluate information through multiple media
Panellists: Sirje Virkus (Tallinn University, Estonia), Mihaela Banek Zorica (Zadar University, Croatia), Dianne Oberg (Alberta University, Canada), Vincent Liquête (Universitè “Montesquieu”, Bordeaux, France), Albert Boekhorst (IFLA IL), Maria Xanthoudaki (“Leonardo da Vinci” Science Museum, Milan, Italy)
16.15 IASL Regional Meeting: Europe
Coordination: Luisa Marquardt (Director Europe for IASL)
17.15 Discussion and closing remarks
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Feb. 28, 2012
8.30 Welcome Coffee
“Information Literacy: a Bridge between School and University in a Lifelong Learning Perspective”
9.30 Session Introduction and Coordination:
Information Literacy: Another Opportunity taken away from Libraries?
Carla Basili (Ceris/Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – CNR, Italy)
9.45 “Yes, we can” – five libraries working together for the target group pupils
Naoka Werr (Universitätsbibliothek Regensubrg, Germany)
10.15 Linking School and University through Information Literacy Education
Laura Ballestra (LIUC, Castellanza, Varese, Italy – IFLA IL Section)
10.45 Transliteracy and the evolution of the French “professeur-documentaliste”
Anne Lehmans (Universitè Montesquieu, IUFM, Bordeaux, France)
11.15 School Librarians’ Education and Training in Bozen for new literacies
Patrizia Caleffi-Liebner (Province of Bozen, Bozen, Italy)
11.45 New competencies for the teacher-librarian
Barbara Schultz-Jones (College of Information, University of North Texas, USA)
12.15 Information Literacy Education: School and Public Libraries Collaboration
Maria José Vitorino (Portugal)
12.45 Discussion
13.00 Buffet Lunch
Laboratory on Media and Information Literacy through Poster Discussion
This interactive session aims at presenting the posters submitted to EMMILE in order to stimulate debate, reflections and critical evaluation in view of future collaboration.
14.00 Poster Session Introduction and Coordination:
Paola De Castro (Istituto Superiore di Sanità – ISS, Italy)
14.15 Poster Presentations
16.45 Discussion and closing remarks
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Feb. 29, 2012
“Media and Information Literacy Education in Different Contexts and Sectors”
8.30 Welcome Coffee
9.30 Session Introduction and Coordination:
9.45 Information Literacy as aTransversal Competency
10.30 Strategies to produce and disseminate information in public health. The experience of the NECOBELAC project in Europe and Latin America
Paola De Castro - Daniela Marsili (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy)
11.00 Information literacy in differente sectors: a view from Russia
Natalia Gendina (Kemerovo State University, Russia / IFLA IL Section)
11.30 EMPATIC: putting the needs of learners first in Information Literacy
Rob Davies (MDR)
12.15 Presentation of Workshop Sessions and Formation of Break-out Groups
Carol Priestley (EMPATIC)
12.30 Discussion
MIL experiences & policy: workshop validating the final recommendations of EMPATIC Project
14.00 Break out groups to:
- discuss the results and recommendations for each sector, and further
- develop recommendations from each sector
EMPATIC docs for each sector are available for public consultation here or under each specific entry (sector), as follows.
Sectors:
- School – Facilitator: Dr. Monika Krakowska (Institute of Information and Library Science, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland). See docs:
- EMPATIC_IL_Schools Sector-one pager
- EMPATIC_IL_Schools Sector-recommendations
- Please, post your comments here: http://emmile.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/empatic-school-sector/ or mail them to info@empat-ic.eu.
- Higher Education – Facilitator: Carla Basili (Ceris/Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – CNR, Italy)
- EMPATIC_IL_Higher Education-one pager
- EMPATIC_IL_Higher Education Sector-recommendations
- Please, post your comments here: http://emmile.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/empatic-higher-education/or mail them to info@empat-ic.eu.
- Adult Education /Lifelong Learning - Facilitators: Anthi Katsirikou (University of Piraeus, Greece), Aris Meletiou and Christos Skiadas (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
- EMPATIC_IL_Adult Education Sector_one pager
- EMPATIC_IL_Adult Education Sector-recommendations
- Please, post your comments here: http://emmile.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/empatic-adult-education-lifelong-learning/ or mail them to info@empat-ic.eu.
- Vocational Education & Training - Facilitator: Bulent Yilmaz (Turkish Librarians’ Association, Turkey). See docs:
- EMPATIC_IL_VET one pager
- EMPATIC_IL_VET Sector-recommendations
- Please, post your comments here: http://emmile.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/empatic-vet-sector/ or mail them to info@empat-ic.eu.
16.3 Feedback from each Group and Refinement of Final Recommendations chaired by Monika Krakowska
17.00 EMMILE Poster Award
17.15 Closing remarks
Luisa Marquardt (IASL Europe) and Claudio Gamba (Regione Lombardia)


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