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Stephen Abram, MLS, is a strategy and direction planning consultant forlibraries and the information industry as managing principal at LighthousePartners. He is a renowned library trend watcher and innovator and authorof Stephen’s Lighthouse blog, one of the most popular blogs in librarianship.He has been president of the Ontario Library Association, the CanadianLibrary Association and the Special Libraries Association. He receivedthe 2011 CLA Outstanding Service to Librarianship Award in June 2011. Hehas been in executive leadership positions at Cengage Learning (Gale),SirsiDynix, Thomson, ProQuest Micromedia and IHS. He has led severallibraries and served on the advisory boards of six LIS schools. He was listedby Library Journal as one of the top 50 people influencing the future oflibraries as one of the first LJ ‘Movers and Shakers’. He has been awarded theSLA’s John Cotton Dana Award as well as being a Fellow of the SLA. Hewas Canadian Special Librarian of the Year and Alumni of the Year for theFaculty of Information iSchool at the University of Toronto where hereceived the 2010 Outstanding Teaching Award. He received the AIIP RogerSummit Awardin 2009. He speaks internationally on innovation, technology,marketing and strategic success in libraries and is the author of hundreds ofarticles and ALA Editions’ bestselling Out Front with Stephen Abram.

Christine S. Bruce, BA, Grad Dip Lib Sc MEd (Res), PhD, is Professor inthe Information Systems School at the Queensland University of Techno-logy, Australia. Christine is interested in the experience of informationliteracy, with particular emphasis on the relational approach, and regularlycontributes keynote addresses in this area. She has developed key modelsincluding the Seven Faces of Information Literacy, and the Six Frames forInformation Literacy Education. Christine’s research interests incorporateworkplace, community and academic information literacy, includingcontexts such as health, faith and content creation. She is also extensivelyinvolved in higher education research, incorporating teaching and learningin a range of contexts including higher degree research and supervision.

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Christine has attended most recently, to working with her research team ondeveloping the pedagogical framework of informed learning, and also oninformation experience as a research focus. Christine has publishedextensively on information literacy and related topics. In 2010 she receivedan award from the State Library of Queensland Board for contribution toinformation literacy research and education. She is presently Higher DegreeResearch Director for the School of Information Systems, convener of theQUT Higher Education Research, a member of US National Forum forInformation Literacy Board of Directors and an Australian TeachingFellow.

Samuel Kai-Wah Chu, PhD, is an Associate Professor (Division ofInformation & Technology Studies) and the Deputy Director (Centre forInformation Technology in Education) in the Faculty of Education, theUniversity of Hong Kong. He has published over 100 articles and booksincluding key journals in the area of information and library science, IT ineducation, school librarianship, academic librarianship and knowledgemanagement. Dr Chu is the Associate Editor (Asia) for Online InformationReview. He is also the Asia Regional Editor for Journal of Information &Knowledge Management and an Editorial Board Member for the journalSchool Libraries Worldwide. He holds many research grants including a3 million Hong Kong dollar (USD$381,270) Quality Education Fund and isa recipient of his Faculty’s Early Career Research Output Award.

Sely Maria de Souza Costa, PhD, is a newly retired senior lecturer from theFaculty of Information Science at the University of Brası́lia, Brazil. She hasgot her PhD in information science from Loughborough University,England. Her major research interests are on scholarly communication,with focus on electronic publishing. Sely has extended her research topicsinto organization communication, as well as into other communicationcontexts, including business and communities. Sely has also carried outstudies on information and knowledge management, as well as on softsystem methodology. Sely leads a research group in electronic publishing inBrazil. She has contributed to a number of journals and conferences withresults of her research work. These contributions comprise journal articles,conference papers, books and book chapters. Sely has contributed as refereefor a variety of national scholarly journals in Brazil and also for nationaland international conferences to which she has also contributed as memberof both organization and programme committees.

Brian Detlor, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at theDeGroote School of Business and Chair of the McMaster Research EthicsBoard at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. Brian’s research

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interests lie at the intersection of users, information and information systems.His current and future projects pertain to digital literacy in academic andpublic library settings, electronic research ethics board systems and personalinformation management tools. Past research projects have investigatedtopics such as information literacy in business schools, web informationseeking, and the adoption and use of library, government, and corporatewebsites. He currently teaches courses at the undergraduate level in electronicbusiness at McMaster and at the graduate level in library administration andleadership at the Marshall School of Business at the University of SouthernCalifornia. Dr Detlor has published several peer-reviewed journals andbooks, presented at domestic and international conferences and garneredgrant awards from national funding agencies. He has over 10 years workexperience consulting, designing and managing information systems.

Phussadee Dokphrom, BA (Geography), MSc (Information Systems), PhD(Information Studies), is a senior lecturer at the Department of LibraryScience, Faculty of Arts, Silpakorn University. Phussadee is interested ininformation literacy, educational informatics and knowledge management.Phussadee has contributed to a number of peer-reviewed journals and bookchapters in these areas both in Thai and international versions.

Thomas S. Duke, PhD, is Professor of Education at the University of AlaskaSoutheast, where he coordinates graduate programmes in special educationand teaches courses in special education, multicultural education andqualitative research methods.

Babakisi Tjedombo Fidzani, BEd (Bachelor of Education), MLIS is DeputyDirector responsible for information and research services at the Universityof Botswana Library. Babakisi is very passionate about information literacy(IL) and advocate for its institutionalization in Higher EducationInstitutions and Public Library programmes. To this end she hasparticipated in a number of information literacy training programmes andprojects locally and internationally. The latest project the product of whichis a co-authored publication entitled ‘Developing an Information LiteracyProgramme for Lifelong Learning: Information Literacy Toolkits forAfrican Universities’ highlights the basic elements to be considered ininstitutionalizing IL and have it embedded in the institutions’ programmes.Babakisi is extending her research interest to monitoring and evaluations ofIL programmes and IL and e-learning initiatives. Babakisi has contributedto a number of peer-reviewed journals on the same subject.

Mark Hepworth, PhD, is Reader in People’s Information Behaviour Leader,People centred design and capability building research group at

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Loughborough University. He is particularly interested in how we can helpto develop peoples’ capabilities in exploiting knowledge and informationboth as individuals and also within an organizational or community context.Mark’s research reflects this interest and includes: developing theoreticalframeworks and applied methodologies in information literacy; e-literacy;information needs analysis; people’s information seeking and use behaviour;learning and pedagogy; people centred design; participative design;community engagement and monitoring and evaluation. He teaches in theareas of: defining information needs and requirements for informationservices and products; teaching information literacy and i-capabilitybuilding; people centred design; people centred service delivery; theevaluation of information systems, services and i-capabilities.

Bill Johnston, BA, Dip Ed Tech, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy,Honorary Research Fellow, University of Strathclyde, is a retired SeniorLecturer in the Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement atthe University of Strathclyde, Scotland. He taught core modules on thePGCert for new academics, and was also responsible for devising andexecuting large-scale, institutional pedagogical enhancement projects. Hehas undertaken extensive research on curriculum development (includingprojects funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, theScottish Quality Assurance Agency and the Australian Learning andTeaching Council) and has published widely. Bill has been invited keynotespeaker at international conferences on the first year experience of HE andon information literacy. Since retiring Bill has remained academically activeand is currently researching the information literacy experiences of adultlearners on a university pre-entry course. He is also a UK contributor to acurrent European project DIALOGUE (http://dialogue.eucen.eu/) whichaims at bridging the gap between academic research on University LifelongLearning (ULLL) and professional practice.

Heidi Julien, BEd, MLIS, PhD, is Professor and Director at the School ofLibrary and Information Studies at The University of Alabama. She hastaught at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, at DalhousieUniversity in Canada and at the University of Alberta in Canada. Herresearch interests are in the areas of information literacy and informationbehaviour. She has examined information literacy instructional practicesin Canadian academic and public libraries, and explored the experienceof librarians in their teaching roles. She also is interested in people’sinformation behaviour in their everyday lives, especially the role of affect intheir information-related experiences. Heidi has published widely, andpresented at conferences around the world. She has been a Visiting Expertat Beijing Normal University, and a Visiting Professor at Charles Sturt

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University. She has served as Editor of the Canadian Journal of Informationand Library Science, and currently serves on the Boards of Library &Information Science Research and Cosmopolitan Civil Societies. Heidi hasalso served on the Board of the American Society for Library andInformation Science Education, and has chaired SIG USE in the AmericanSociety for Information Science & Technology.

Emily S. Kinsky, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department ofCommunication at West Texas A&M University where she teaches coursesrelated to advertising, public relations, design and research. She serves as theadviser of the college’s National Broadcasting Society and assists theuniversity Ad/PR Society. She earned her doctorate and master’s in masscommunications from Texas Tech University and her bachelor’s degreefrom Baylor University in the University Scholar programme. Besides herpassion for children’s media, her other research areas of interest includecrisis communication, social media and the portrayal of public relations inthe media. She currently serves as the teaching research co-chair for thePublic Relations Division of the Association for Education in Journalismand Mass Communication and the division’s newsletter editor.

Rosemary Kuhn is a senior librarian in the subject librarian cohort in theCecil Renaud main library of the Pietermaritzburg campus of the Universityof KwaZulu-Natal. Her responsibilities include collection development andorganisation, academic liaison and user education for a range of disciplinesincluding the campus law library. She does part time lecturing in theDepartment of Information Studies at undergraduate, diploma and post-graduate level as well as the compulsory undergraduate law degree modulecalled Legal Research Writing and Reasoning. She has a particular interestin information literacy.

Vicki Lawal, BLIS, MA (Law and Diplomacy), MPhil (LIS), PhD, CLN, isthe Law librarian at the University of Jos, Nigeria. Her area of researchinterests include information literacy, human information behaviour,Information and Communication Technology (ICT), legal education andlegal research and copyright and intellectual property and has also publishedin these areas. Vicki is a member of various professional associations localand international including the Nigerian Library Association (NLA),Library Association of South Africa (LIASA) and the InternationalAssociation of Law Libraries (IALL).

Celina Wing-Yi Lee, BA (Hons), PGDE (expecting: 2013) is a graduate fromThe University of Hong Kong and is pursuing her Postgraduate Diploma ofEducation in English for Secondary School in the institution. Ms Lee has

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been involved in conducting research in the field of IT in Education, inquirylearning and development of 21st century skills. She is the first author of aconference paper titled ‘Inquiry Project-Based Learning and Web 2.0Technologies: 21st Century Skills Education’ and a co-author of a publishedbook on inquiry learning and three other conference papers.

Tzu-Bin Lin, BA, MA, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department ofEducation at National Taiwan Normal University. His research focuses oneducation policy and leadership, media and Information literacy, multi-cultural education and English teaching. His most recent research was todevelop a framework and instrument to investigate newmedia literacy amongSingapore students. Prior to his current post, he worked for theMedia Schoolin Bournemouth University UK as researcher and the Policy and LeadershipStudies Academic Group in National Institute of Education Singapore asassistant professor. He serves in the editorial board for the Journal of MediaLiteracy Education (JMLE) and the TESOL Journal. He has publishedmore than 20 papers on peer-reviewed journals and books. He is currentlyco-editing a Springer book on new media and learning in East Asia.

Edward Lumande has a Masters of Library Science (MLS), Bachelor Arts(BA) and an Agricultural Information Specialist (AIS) certificate. He is aSenior Librarian at the University of Botswana, coordinating faculty outreach for Science and recently for Health Sciences and Engineering andTechnology. Edward is interested in a variety of subject areas includinginformation seeking behaviour and imparting of information literacy skillsto students. He has been involved in the development and institutionaliza-tion of information literacy programmes at the University of Botswana andhe has been involved in the organization and training programmes of thelibrary for both library staff and academic staff and in pedagogicalworkshops with stakeholders. Recently he was a member of the DELPHEProject: ‘Developing an Information Literacy Programme for LifelongLearning in African Universities (2009–2012)’ under the auspices ofDevelopment Partners in Higher Education (UK). The project developeda set of toolkits on establishing information literacy programmes in HigherEducation Institutions (HEI) of which he was one of the co-authors of thereports. Edward has contributed to a number of peer-reviewed journals onthe same subject and he hopes to continue to extend the experience gained inthe establishment and infusion of IL programmes in HE institutions.

Silas Oluka received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics at MakerereUniversity in 1988 and 1992, the latter through sandwich programmes withKing’s College London and the University of Bergen, Norway. His PhDdegree in science and development education is from the University of

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Alberta, 1997. Silas has spent his early career as a science educator atMakerere University — Kampala, Uganda, where he immersed himself intothe balancing act of teaching and researching medical physics, alongsidecurriculum and pedagogy professional development practices. Due to thelatter capabilities, Dr Oluka was able to shift into academic development inJune 2008 at the University of Botswana where to date he is deputy directorin charge of learning and teaching development. As an academicdevelopment scholar, bolstered by a 2005/2006 Fulbright Scholar residencyat University of Massachusetts, Amherst, his goal is to apply his expertiseand experience as an educator, academic, curriculum developer andevaluator, research scholar and a higher education facilitator in professionaldevelopment to advance higher education goals of engagement. A three-yearcentral role in the Information Literacy project ‘Developing an InformationLiteracy Programme for Lifelong Learning for African Universities (2009–2012)’ under the auspices of Development Partners in Higher Education(UK) championed his pathway to enhancement of quality of studentlearning through instructional design and implementation anchored inanalytical skills that are best facilitated through an information-literacystreamed programmes of study.

Helen Partridge, BA, GradCertEd (HigherEd), PgDipPscyh, MIT, PhD,FALIA, is a Professor in the Information Systems School at QueenslandUniversity of Technology, Australia. She is the coordinator of the School’slibrary and information science education programme and has received anumber of teaching awards including a Teaching Fellowship in 2008 fromthe Australian Learning and Teaching Council. Helen was elected to theBoard of Directors of the Australian Library and Information Associationin 2006 and again in 2008, and was appointed a Fellow of the Association in2012. She is the secretary for the Library Theory and Research StandingCommittee of the International Federation of Library and InformationAssociations, and coordinated the committee’s recent project, ResearchLibrarian Partnership, a mentoring programme aimed at helping newprofessionals in the library sector develop their knowledge, skill andexperience in undertaking research. She has received over $1million inresearch funding; her work focuses on the interplay between information,learning and technology. In 2011 she was a visiting fellow at the OxfordInternet Institute, University of Oxford, where she undertook a studyexploring people’s information experiences in Twitter.

Sandhya Rajagopal, MSc (Librarianship), MBA (MIS), MSc (Physics), first-year PhD student at the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong(HKU). Her research interests are in information retrieval and informationmanagement particularly in Academic libraries. She has authored two

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conference papers and published one in the faculty’s e-journal (iTec), ontopics relating to enhancing library functions and services. Prior to enteringacademia she worked as a technical writer for commercial softwareapplications in internationally reputed technology companies, for overeight years.

Alexander Serenko, PhD, is an Associate Professor of ManagementInformation Systems in the Faculty of Business Administration at LakeheadUniversity, Canada. Dr Serenko holds a PhD in Management InformationSystems from McMaster University. His research interests pertain toscientometrics, knowledge management and technology addiction.Alexander has published over 60 articles in refereed journals, includingMIS Quarterly, Information & Management, Communications of the ACM,Journal of Informetrics and Journal of Knowledge Management. He has alsowon awards at several Canadian, American and international conferences.In 2007, Dr Serenko received the Lakehead Contribution to ResearchAward which recognizes him as one of the university’s leading researchers.

Debra C. Smith, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department ofAfricana Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where sheteaches courses in media, film, health and environment and education. Sheearned her doctorate from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.Her research and teaching interest include e-Black Studies, African-Americans in communication and popular culture, minority images in themedia, contemporary African-American folklore and developing teachingstrategies that incorporate popular culture, language and power.

Mary M. Somerville, BA, MA, MLS, CAS, PhD, Professor, serves as theUniversity Librarian and Library Director at the Auraria Library, whichserves the University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State University ofDenver and Community College of Denver in Denver, Colorado, USA. Herleadership approach applies participatory co-design principles and practicesto further workplace information sharing and knowledge creation.Complementary frameworks of appreciative inquiry, action research, sharedleadership and informed learning advance organizational capacity forlearning enabled through purposeful communication, decision-making andplanning systems. A monograph, Working Together: Collaborative Informa-tion Practices for Organizational Learning (Association of College &Research Libraries, 2009), discusses highlights of the initial three-yearimplementation study at California Polytechnic State University in San LuisObispo, California, USA. In 2012, insights gained from a decade ofimplementation and evaluation in three North American organizationssupported articulation with international colleagues of an Informed Systems

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Approach, which promotes workplace learning through contextualizedinformation experiences.

Christine Stilwell is Professor of Information Studies in the School of SocialSciences, Pietermaritzburg Campus. She is a National Research Founda-tion-rated researcher and has published numerous journal articles, aco-edited book, a directory of South African resource centres and chaptersin books. She serves on the Editorial Boards of several journals bothinternational and local. She participated in a Carnegie funded LibraryLeadership Academy, a University of Pretoria-based collaborative initiativewith the University of Cape Town and UKZN which has produced some120 young library leaders for the South African profession. She was Head ofthe Information Studies Programme from 2003 to 2007 and is currentlyActing Director of the Centre for African Literary Studies on thePietermaritzburg Campus. She serves on the Advisory Board of the AlanPaton Centre and Struggle Archives. Her research interests are publiclibraries and their role in addressing poverty and social exclusion, andinformation behaviour.

Ian Stoodley, DipTeach, BEd, GradDipLib&InfoStudies, PhD, is aresearcher at the Queensland University of Technology. His work includesqualitative research into information use, specializing in the investigation ofpeople’s experience. His research has embraced the experience of profes-sional ethics, information technology research and higher degree researchsupervision. Out of this research, Ian has published a number of highranking peer-reviewed journal articles. He was conferred an IT FacultyDean’s Award for Excellence for his doctoral work on professionalethics. Ian is currently involved in an Australian Office for Learning andTeaching funded project to assist institutions in managing and improv-ing their student retention activities, which is constructing a MaturityModel for Student Success, Engagement and Retention. He is engaged inan Australian Research Council Linkage Grant project investigatingageing Australians’ experience of health information literacy. He is alsoactive in the development of a Higher Education Research Network, whichaims to champion and embed high quality higher education researchat QUT.

Rosemeire Barbosa Tavares, PhD, is an Associate Researcher at theUniversity of Brasilia, Brazil and works as a Support Lecturer in theInformation Communication and Media subject area. Rosemeire isinterested in the cognitive processes involved in becoming informationliterate particularly concerned with ordinary people inside their commu-nities. She works at State Government of Brasilia, as a Tax Auditor since

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1984, where she has developed a sort of projects related with informationmanagement including digital literacy and how information behaviours canhave an effect on information system design. In this way, she is alsointerested in identifying processes of information management inside publicorganizations which take into account information behaviour patterns.Rosemeire, joined with Hepworth and Costa, has written a paper inwhich the findings of her pilot research are presented (http://idv.sagepub.com/content/27/2/125), and also participated of the Enancib/2012 Forum(http://www.enancib2012.icict.fiocruz.br/) where the comparative studybetween findings from pilot and principal investigation were presented inorder to show how the learning process inside communities could beexplored.

Peter G. Underwood is Honorary Professor of the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Emeritus Professor of the University of Cape Town, havingoccupied the Chair of Librarianship there from 1992 to 2010. He is theauthor ofManaging Change in Libraries and Information Services: A SystemsApproach and Soft Systems Analysis and the Management of Libraries,Information Services and Resource Centres, and co-author of Basics of DataManagement for Information Services. In 2010, with Dr Colin Darch, hepublished Freedom of Information in the Developing World: Demand,Compliance and Democratic Behaviour (Woodhead/Chandos, 2010). Histeaching and research focuses on information literacy, information systemsmanagement and organizational behaviour in the context of libraries andinformation services. He is also Senior Associate with a consulting group,Knowledge Leadership Associates (www.knowlead.co.za).

Geoff Walton, BA (Joint Hons), MA, PgCHPE, PhD, FHEA, MCLIP,Learning Excellence Fellow, is a Senior Researcher and Academic SkillsTutor: Librarian at Staffordshire University. Geoff is interested in thecognitive and metacognitive processes involved in becoming informationliterate and how information behaviour theory and research can helpunderstand these. He contributes to the working group which develops theAssignment Survival Kit or ASK (www.staffs.ac.uk/ask). Geoff is extendinghis research interests into bibliometrics, social media and digital literacy,and is also interested in identifying synergies between information literacy,e-learning and inquiry-based learning. He was SLA Europe InformationProfessional 2010. He is joint managing editor of the online journalInnovative Practice in Higher Education (www.staffs.ac.uk/ipihe) andmember of the Research Information Network (RIN) InformationHandling Group (soon to be rebranded the Research, Information &Digital Literacies Coalition — RiDLS).

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Li Wang, BE, MLIS, PhD, is the Learning Support Services Manager at theUniversity of Auckland Library, New Zealand. Li has been working in thearea of information literacy education since late 1980s, as a higher educator,a library practitioner, a researcher and a developer. Li is interested in theareas of information literacy and academic literacy education, curriculumintegration of information literacy and academic literacy in highereducation, information literacy and academic literacy curriculum designand development, student-centred approach learning theories and howtheories can be applied in information literacy and academic literacyteaching as well as staff development in higher education in both class ande-learning environment.

Li’s doctoral research (http://eprints.qut.edu.au/41747/) focused on howto integrate information literacy across course curricula in higher education.She has developed an information literacy curricular integration model. Themodel has been applied in curricular integration of information literacy andacademic literacy in various subject areas in higher education such asengineering, education, planning and arts. The model has also been appliedin curricular analysis across a subject or programme curriculum as well as instaff development and training programme on curriculum integration ofinformation and academic literacy. Li has contributed to a number of peer-reviewed information literacy related journals and professional conferences.Li has been invited as a keynote speaker in international conferences. Shewas a recent participant in the Harvard/ACRL Leadership Institute forAcademic Librarians.

Li-Yi Wang, BA, MSc, PhD, is a Research Scientist in the Office ofEducation Research (OER), National Institute of Education Singapore. Hestarted his research career by looking into the transmission of professionalidentity of non-native English speaking teachers in the context of teachingEnglish as a foreign language (EFL). After joining the OER, He hasextended his research interests into a number of different areas includingschool-based curriculum innovation, media literacy, information literacyand education policy. He is also involved in the discussion of educationinequality with the focus on strategies and practices at different levels insocial psychology frameworks in relation to the pedagogical and affectiveneeds of academically at-risk and low-achieving students. He has also beenactively participating in academic communities by sharing his researchfindings with education practitioners in a number of internationalconferences and peer-reviewed journals.

Jennifer D. Ward, MLIS, is an Associate Professor of Library Scienceand Outreach Services Librarian at the University of Alaska Southeast in

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Juneau, Alaska. Currently she is on sabbatical studying academic librarianteaching practices in Finland.

Sheila Webber, BA, PgDip, FHEA, FCLIP, is a Senior Lecturer in theInformation School, Sheffield University, UK, where she is Director of theCentre for Information Literacy Research and Head of the Libraries andInformation Society Research Group. Previous jobs include teaching atStrathclyde University, Scotland, and heading the Business InformationService at the British Library. Her core areas of interest in teaching andresearch are information literacy, information behaviour and educationalinformatics. Sheila is a committee member of the IFLA InformationLiteracy Section and a past member of the SCONUL Working Group onInformation Literacy and the CILIP Information Literacy Group. She hasalso contributed to the development of the UNESCO Media andInformation Literacy indicators. She is an invited speaker on informationliteracy internationally, for example in 2011–2013 invited to speak inCanada, Poland, Turkey, Sweden and Estonia. She has maintained theInformation Literacy Weblog since 2005 at http://information-literacy.blogspot.com (which has had over a million page views) and is the author ofover 100 publications.

Evans Wema, BLIS (Makerere), MA IS (UDSM), PGCE (UWC), PGMeM(Stellenbosch), PhD (Loughborough), is a Researcher and Lecturerin Information and Library studies: Information Studies Programme,University of Dar es Salaam. Wema is interested in developing informationliteracy curricula through the integration of Information and LibraryScience conceptions of information literacy, educational theories andinformation behaviour research. He contributes to the working groupwhich develops Health Information Literacy Toolkit with the TanzaniaMinistry of Health and Social Work. Wema is extending his researchinterests into a number of different areas including Web 2.0 technologies,digital repositories and monitoring and evaluation methods for teachinginformation literacy. He is also interested in assessing informationbehaviour of students when accessing and using electronic theses anddissertation databases to find ways of improving such information retrievalsystems. Wema has contributed to a number of peer-reviewed journals andis currently working on developing an information literacy curriculum forthe Tanzania Public Services Commission College.