Introduction

I met Christine Bruce in 1999 during my first sabbatical to learn about information literacy while at Queensland University of Technology. While there, I read The Seven Faces of Information Literacy (1997) and had questions about putting the ideas into practice. After our appointment, I followed her subsequent work as well as that of related information literacy scholars. In 2016, I had been putting Informed Learning (2008) ideas into practice but lacked knowledge about the particular qualitative research method called phenomenography. I queried Dr Bruce about the possibility of doing a project under her mentorship. While there was not time for a phenomenographic study in a single semester, she urged me to write a book about my work and suggested inviting others to contribute chapters. The project formed the basis for my 2017 sabbatical in the Information Science area of Queensland University of Technology’s College of Science and Engineering, School of Information Systems.