Hilary Johnson

Chair of the Advisory Committee on Information Literacy

Director of Information Resources & Services
The University of Northampton

Contact:

Park Campus Library
The University of Northampton
Boughton Green Road
Northampton
NN2 7AL

E-mail HILARY.JOHNSON@northampton.ac.uk

Tel +44 (0) 1604 735500
Fax +44 (0) 1604 718819

Areas of research:

• Information Literacy
• Learning support in Higher Education
• Quality enhancement & Organisational and management development in academic services

Professional background:

1975 - 1978 Assistant Librarian, University of Sussex
1978 - 1986 Information Officer; User Education Librarian; Technology Subject Librarian, Plymouth Polytechnic
1986 - 1990 Deputy Librarian, Royal Military College of Science
1990 - 1995 Assistant Head of Learning Resources, Brighton Polytechnic/University of Brighton

Bibliography:

Johnson, H. 2004. Accrediting Information Literacy. Information Literacy for Health, LKDN/SCONUL/UMSLG Joint Workshop. London, 1 March 2004. PowerPoint Slides

Johnson, H. 2003. Product, process or pre-requisite? Information Literacy as infrastructure for information networking. New review of Information Networking, 9(1) pp 2-20.

Johnson, H. 2003. The SCONUL Task Force on Information Skills. In: Martin, A. and Rader, H. eds. Information and IT literacy: enabling learning in the 21st century. London: Facet, p. 45-52.

Johnson, H. 2002. The SCONUL Task Force on Information Skills. IT&ILit 2002 - 1st International Conference on IT & Information Literacy. Glasgow, March 2002.
http://www.elit-conf.org/itilit2002/papers/ab41.html

Johnson, H. 2001. Information skills, information literacy. Library Association Record, 103(12) December, pp752-753.

Updated March 2004 by Selena Lock S.A.Lock@Cranfield.ac.uk.