Sheila Webber
Senior Lecturer
University of Sheffield, Department of Information Studies
Contact:
211 Portobello Street,
Sheffield,
S1 4DP
E-mail: s.webber@shef.ac.uk
Tel +44 (0)114 222 2641
Areas of research:
- Information literacy & pedagogy
- Business information
- Weblogs
Biography:
I have been at Sheffield since 2000. I teach on the undergraduate and postgraduate courses (including modules on Information Literacy and Information Literacy Research), and am the Departmental Director of Learning and Teaching.
I was Principal Investigator on a 3 year AHRB-funded project investigating UK academics’ conceptions of pedagogy for information literacy. I am a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, and of the Higher Education Academy. From 1992-2000 I was a lecture in the Department of Information Science, Strathclyde University. 1980-1992. I worked for the British Library, including being Manager of BLAISE Online Services and (my last post there) Manager of the British Library Business Information Service. In my spare time I unite three interests (information literacy, blogging, my digital camera) in the Information Literacy Weblog (though I sometimes do other things in my spare time too ;-)
Biblography:
Webber, S., Johnston, B. and Boon, S. 2007. The Information literacy weblog [online]. Sheffield: University of Sheffield. http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/
Boon, S., Johnston, B. and Webber, S. (2007) "A phenomenographic study of English faculty's conceptions of information literacy." Journal of documentation, 63 (2), 204-228.
Johnston, B. and Webber, S. (2006) “As we may think: Information Literacy as a discipline for the information age” Research strategies, 20 (3), 108-121.
Webber, S. (2006) “Information Literacy in Higher Education.” In: Stopar, K. and Rabzeljl. (Eds) Informacijska Pismenost med teorijo in prakso: vloga visokošolskih in specialnih knjižnic: Zbornik prispevkov. [Information Literacy between theory and practice: The role of academic and special libraries:
Proceedings.] Ljubljana: ZBDS. pp9-20.
hhttp://dis.shef.ac.uk/sheila/webber-sl-06.pdf
Webber, S., Boon, S. and Johnston, B. (2006) "Comparaison des conceptions pédagogiques de la maîtrise de l’information chez des universitaires britanniques de différentes disciplines." Actes des 5èmes Rencontres Formist:
Lyon: 2005. Lyon: ENSSIB. http://babel.enssib.fr/document.php?id=315
Webber, S. and Johnston, B. (2006) “Working towards the information literate university.” In Walton, G. and Pope, A. (Eds) Information literacy: recognising the need. Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent: 17 May 2006. Oxford:
Chandos. pp 47-58. http://dis.shef.ac.uk/sheila/staffs-webber-johnston.pdf
Webber, S. and McGuinness, C. (2006) “State of the art of Information Literacy in English speaking European countries: United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland.” In:
Lau, J. (Ed) Information Literacy: an international state-of-the-art report.
Published on behalf of UNESCO, UNESCO ID 600015.
http://www.uv.mx/usbi_ver/unesco/
Webber, S. and Johnston, B. (2005) “Information literacy in the curriculum:
selected findings from a phenomenographic study of UK conceptions of, and pedagogy for, information literacy” In: Rust, C. (Ed) Improving Student
Learning: Diversity and Inclusivity: Proceedings of the 11th ISL symposium, Birmingham, 6-8 September 2004. Oxford: Oxford Brookes University. pp212-224.
http://dis.shef.ac.uk/sheila/literacy/webber-johnston-isl.pdf
Johnston, B. and Webber, S. (2005) “The role of LIS faculty in the information literate university: taking over the academy?” In: Ashcroft, L. (Ed.) Coping with continual change: change management in SLIS: Proceedings of the EUCLID and ALISE Joint Conference, Potsdam, Germany, 31 July- 1 August 2003. pp91-98.
Bradford: Emerald Publishing.
Webber, S., Boon, S. and Johnston, B. (2005) “A comparison of UK academics’
conceptions of information literacy in two disciplines: English and Marketing.”
Library and information research, 29 (93), 4-15.
Virkus, S., Boekhorst, A. K., Gomez-Hernandez J.A., Skov, A. and Webber, S.
(2005) “Information literacy and learning.” In: Kajberg, L. and Lørring, L.
(Eds) European Curriculum: Reflections on Library and Information Science Education. pp65-83. Copenhagen: The Royal School of Library and Information Science. http://biblis.db.dk/uhtbin/hyperion.exe/db.leikaj05
Armstrong, C, Boden, D., Town, S., Woolley, M., Webber, S. and Abell, A. (2005) “Defining Information Literacy for the UK.” Library and information update, 4 (1), 22-25.
http://www.cilip.org.uk/publications/updatemagazine/archive/archive2005/janfeb/armstrong.htm
Webber, S. & Johnston, B. (2004). Perspectives on the Information Literate University, SCONUL Focus, 33, 33-35.
http://www.sconul.ac.uk/publications/newsletter/33/12.pdf
Johnston, B. and Webber, S. 2004. The role of LIS faculty in the information literate university: taking over the academy? New Library world, 105 (1/2), pp12-20.
Webber, S., Johnston, B. and Boon, S. 2004. The information literacy weblog. Assignation, 21 (2), pp39-42.
Webber, S. 2003. Information literacy: today and tomorrow. In: Nixon, C. (Ed.) Internet Librarian International 2003. Medford: Information Today. pp335-340.
Webber, S. 2003. Information literacy: what is it? SPRIG bulletin, (39), pp6-13.
Webber, S. 2003. An International Information Literacy Certificate: opportunity or dead-end? In: World Library and Information Congress: 69th IFLA General Conference and Council: August 1st - 9th 2003: Berlin, Germany: programme and proceedings. [online] The Hague: IFLA. http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla69/prog03.htm
Webber, S. 2003. Taking information literacy seriously. Library and information update, 2(1), pp44-45.
Webber, S. 2003. Teaching information searching. Library and information update, 2 (4), pp31.http://www.cilip.org.uk/publications/updatemagazine/archive/archive2003/april/update0304b.htm
Webber, S. and Johnston, B. 2003. Assessment for information literacy: vision and reality. In: Martin, A. and Rader, H. (Eds) Information and IT literacy: enabling learning in the 21st Century. London: Facet. pp101-111.
Webber, S. and Johnston, B. 2003. Featured website: The information literacy place. Loex news, 29 (4), 2-3, pp6-7.
Webber, S. and Johnston, B. 2003. Information literacy in the United Kingdom: a critical review. In: Basili, C. (Ed) Information literacy in Europe: a first insight into the state of the art of information literacy in the European Union. Rome: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Note di Bibliografica e di Documentazione Scientifica; LXVI). pp258-283.
http://dis.shef.ac.uk/sheila/webber-johnston-uk.pdf
Johnston, B. and Webber, S. 2003. Information literacy in higher education: a review and case study. Studies in higher education, 28 (3), pp335-352.
Webber, S. 2002. Getting the knowledge. Library and information update, 1 (7), pp52-3.http://dis.shef.ac.uk/literacy/itilreview.htm
Webber, S. 2002. Mapping a path to the empowered searcher. In: Graham, C. (Ed) Online Information Proceedings: 3-5 December 2002. Oxford: Learned Information Europe. pp177-181.
Webber, S. and Johnston, B. 2002. Information literacy: the social action agenda. In: Booker, D. (Ed) Information Literacy: The Social Action Agenda: Proceedings of the 5th National Information Literacy Conference. Adelaide: University of South Australia Library. pp68-80.
http://dis.shef.ac.uk/literacy/adelaide-webber-johnston.pdf
Webber, S. 2001. Myths and opportunities. Library Association Record, 103 (9), pp548-549.http://dis.shef.ac.uk/literacy/lar0901.htm
Webber, S and Johnston, B. 2000. Conceptions of information literacy: new perspectives and implications. Journal of information science, 26 (6), pp381-397.
Johnston, B. and Webber, S. 2000. Towards the information literate graduate: rethinking the undergraduate curriculum in business studies. In: Appleton, K., Macpherson, C. and Orr, D. (eds). Lifelong learning conference: selected papers from the inaugural international lifelong learning conference: Yeppoon, Queensland, Australia: 17-19 July 2000. Rockhampton: Lifelong Learning Conference Committee. pp194-202.
Johnston, B. and Webber, S. 1999. Information literacy as an academic discipline: an action research approach to developing a credit bearing class for business undergraduates. In: Klasson, M., Loughridge, B. and Loof, S. (eds) New fields for research in the 21st century: Proceedings of the 3rd British Nordic Conference on Library and Information Studies: 12-14 April 1999: Boras, Sweden. Boras: The Swedish School of Library and Information Studies, University College of Boras. pp183-197.
Updated May 2007 by Moira Bent Moira.Bent@ncl.ac.uk.