Scottish Information Literacy Project

For anyone interested in the work Kate King is doing at Edinburgh Prison Libraries Edinburgh City Libraries has a blog called Tales of One City  where progress regarding the prison library service is recorded. Thanks to Cathy Kearney for this bit of information.

This was the title of a Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (Scotland) (CILIPS) conference, held at Glasgow Metropolitan College, on Thursday 19th March and was chaired by Christine and me.  It was inspired by the Skills for Scotland policy document, published in October 2007 and reviewed the role of information literacy in skills [...]

Forgot this from our report on the trip to Sheffield. Seminar with post graduate students. Thanks to Sheila Webber for the photo – see also Sheila’s blog about our visit.

On Monday 16th March I attended the Alliance of Sector Skills Councils Employer Conference held at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh. All sector skills were represented and I joined the Lifelong Learning table. This sector covers community learning, FE/HE, Libraries, archives and information services and work based learning. The morning was taken up with the views of [...]

Thanks to Ian McCracken and Philip Graham from Govan High School for alerting me to a Radio 4 interview about the Internet, the Google generation and the rewiring of brains – available until Thurday 19th March 2008 via BBC iPlayer Transcript also available at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/analysis/7935725.stm    The interview is described on the BBC iPlayer as follows: “Kenan [...]

Discussions and presentations with staff and students at Sheffield University, Department of Information Studies         On Wednesday 11th March we were off to Sheffield at the request of Sheila Corrall and Sheila Webber of the Department of Information studies at Sheffield University to do some work with students. On the morning of [...]

  We have both had our heads down for a while with backroom matters hence the lack of postings but we were out and about last week. On Tuesday 10th March we attended the National Literacy Conference, held at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow. We had been invited by the Literacy Team of the Curriculum [...]

John and I recently attended an RSA in Scotland (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce) seminar in Edinburgh to identify ways in which RSA Scotland and Fellows can make a contribution in the field of Education and Skills in Scotland. A topic close to our hearts and we were not disappointed [...]