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Item Inspiring Innovation: Lessons learned from an academic-library-student partnership to support digital development(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-10-27) McGuinness, Claire; Fulton, Crystal; Carrie, David; Cohen, Gina; Owens, Emma; Bustillo, Marta; Browne, Andrew; Guerin, SuzanneThe topic of the poster, which highlights a successful academic-library collaboration and a 'students-as-partners' approach to learning development, aims to inspire library colleagues around the world to explore innovative student focused approaches to supporting information, digital and media literacy development in higher education and beyond. The students-as-partners approach helps to create "more egalitarian, inclusive learning environments, where students and staff shape university teaching together" (Fulton et al, 2022), and gives students a greater sense of agency and empowerment in shaping the direction and form of their own learning. In this, it aligns well with the ACRL's Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, which explicitly recognises students' agency as information creators and interpreters rather than merely passive consumers, and aims to reflect a world in which "students have a greater role and responsibility in creating new knowledge, in understanding the contours and the changing dynamics of the world of information, and in using information, data, and scholarship ethically" (ACRL, 2015).Item Open Educational Resources (OERS) for Digital Research Skills: Sharing our Experience of Blended Learning(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-11-26) McGuinness, Claire; Fulton, Crystal; Pope, PaigeThis poster presents an innovative digital literacy project from the School of Information & Communication Studies, University College Dublin, which involved the creation of six original e-tutorials supporting the development of students’ digital research skills, to complement traditional research and information literacy competencies in our undergraduate programs. Targeting key digital research topics, such as social media analytics, data visualisation and the academic web, the e-tutorials blend text, image, audio, and video to offer an engaging and interactive learning experience for students. Importantly, our e-tutorials are available for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, and are categorised as Open Educational Resources (OERs), free to be shared with librarians and teachers in higher education around the world.Item Training the trainers: A public library - higher education collaboration for Media Literacy education in Ireland(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-06-18) Fulton, Crystal; McGuinness, Claire; Kerrigan, Páraic; Siapera, Eugenia; Carrie, David; Pope, PaigeThis paper addresses the issue of media, information, and digital literacy training for public library staff by describing a recent collaboration between academics at the School of Information and Communication Studies (ICS) at University College Dublin (UCD), and Meath County Council Libraries in Ireland, which aimed to develop and pilot an innovative media literacy training programme for the Meath public library staff in Spring 2021. In a project initiated by the Libraries Development unit of the Irish Local Government Management Agency (LGMA), and funded by Meta (formerly Facebook), the UCD team adopted a participatory action research approach to exploring the learning needs of the library staff, and creating a bespoke Media Literacy curriculum and training programme to prepare them to teach in their libraries. Needs assessment consisted of a review of the existing media literacy training landscape and a survey of the participating library staff, while a qualitative focus group probed the library staff’s perceptions and experiences of media literacy in relation to their day-to-day work, and suggested topics of critical importance for inclusion in the new curriculum. The Media Literacy training programme, which comprised five interactive online workshops on media literacy and pedagogy, took place at the end of June 2021. Participant evaluations provided valuable feedback about the effectiveness of the training, and recommendations for future developments. This paper demonstrates the power of collaborating with external groups - in this case, academics - to create a library-focused media literacy training programme for public librarians.