Dr Marc Forster is a librarian at the University of West London, looking after the needs of the College of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare. His research interests include information literacy’s role in learning and in the performance of the professional role. Contributors: Christine S. Bruce, Professor, Information Systems School, Queensland University of Technology Bonnie Cheuk, Executive, Euroclear Stéphane Goldstein, Executive Director, InformAll Annemaree Lloyd, Professor, Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås Stephen Roberts, Associate Professor, Information Management, University of West London Elham Sayyad Abdi, Associate Lecturer, Information Systems School, Queensland University of Technology Mary M. Somerville, University Librarian for University of the Pacific Libraries in Sacramento, San Francisco, and Stockton, California, USA Andrew Whitworth, Director of Teaching and Learning Strategy, Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester
Informed and informative, thoughtful and thought-provoking, Information Literacy in the Workplace will prove to be applicably useful for librarians and LIS students in understanding how information literacy is experienced by the professions they support and academics teaching professional courses. It will also be of interest to professionals (e.g. medical, social care, legal and business based) and their employers in showing that IL is essential to best practice and key to ethical practice. * Midwest Book Review *