Public lecture: Research on information seeking and learning during 25 years: challenges, lessons and prospects

Join the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts for a special lecture with Eminent Visiting Fellow, Senior Professor Louise Limberg for a public lecture entitled ‘Research on information seeking and learning during 25 years: challenges, lessons and prospects’.

Event details

Professor Louise Limberg will present overall findings from a number of research projects carried out in Swedish primary and secondary schools at a public lecture on 26 March.

Date

Thursday 26 March 2015

Time

4.30 pm - registration, 4.45 pm - lecture, 5.45 pm - refreshments

Venue

Bankwest Lecture Theatre, Building 200A, Curtin University, Kent Street, Bentley

Cost

Free

About the lecture

Professor Limberg will present overall findings from a number of research projects carried out in Swedish primary and secondary schools during the last 25 years. The research has been directed at the interaction between information seeking and learning, linked to issues of information literacy. Main conclusions are that variation in the quality of students’ information seeking and use interacts closely with variation in the quality of their learning outcomes, indicating that information literacy is a critical feature of learning via digital tools and information sources. The lecture will summarise these conclusions and discuss further research that is required.

About the speaker

Louise Limberg is a Senior Professor at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science at the University of Borås, Sweden, and an international leader in the field of information literacy and learning. Her research interests include issues of school and academic librarianship, particularly the pedagogical roles of such libraries. Her research has created a lively interest among practitioners in librarianship and education across Scandinavia. During March 2015 she will be based at Curtin University as an Eminent Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities.

Registration

Please RSVP by Monday 23 March to events@curtin.edu.au.

If you have any special requirements to enable you to attend this event, please advise when you RSVP and we will contact you to provide assistance. For more information, please visit our disability services website.