
In this article, I reflect on the changes to the information literacy research domain since it was written. I provide a highly personal perspective based on my interactions with researchers, research student through visits, consultancies, conferences and reading over the years. I have deliberately reflected in a conversational way although there are parts of the article which may be of more interest to researchers themselves. Towards the end, I raise the question of what it takes for a research domain to be considered mature and how this might apply to information literacy research.
Reflection on a journal article I wrote 21 years ago is a difficult task, especially as I retired three years later. That the intervening years have been spent on other activities, such as fly fish...
Our 2004 paper presented statistical and other data on professional-level Australian Library and Information Studies (LIS) education over the period 1991–2003 inclusive. This reflection paper updat...