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The International Information Literacies Research Network
Information literacy research with varying foci is carried out in many places around the world.
The International Information Literacies Research Network will facilitate sustainable discussions and the exchange of information and ideas in order to:
- Develop the emerging interdisciplinary research field of information literacies and its theoretical and methodological foundations
- Explore the relationship across disciplines
- Initiate formalised and informal collaborative research projects
- Promote a strong research agenda for the network
- Enable joint publications
- Arrange and support conferences, seminars, workshops
- Secure the growth of the research field (e.g. PhD courses, connecting PhD students)
The Network brings together researchers with a shared interest in this emerging field and will focus on sociocultural approaches to understanding information literacies, while acknowledging variation regarding methodological approaches amongst researchers. The members of the network share the idea that a common platform which can facilitate exchange of experiences, ideas and information is valuable and productive. Through collective efforts our intention is to build a network that can benefit from and enhance research on information literacy practices. The network will enable formalised international research cooperation within small or large scale projects, and it will provide opportunities for researchers and research students to meet and learn from each other.
The development of information literacy can be regarded as a process of empowerment in relation to various information practices, such as within formal education, in workplaces or in everyday life. Information literacy has attracted increased attention during the last decades. The particular interest of this network is to develop and connect conceptual understandings of information literacy to empirical research in various contexts and related to particular practices.
The overarching questions directed at the theoretical and empirical research agenda of the network are: How does information literacy happen in the context of practice? How are information literacy practices shaped, arranged and organized?
