Archive for May, 2009

May 22 2009

Digital Britain report

I have been reading the Digital Britain report www.culture.gov.uk/images/publications/digital_britain_interimreportjan09.pdf which is certainly to be welcomed. It takes a ‘whole population’ approach rather than specific sectors and has things to say about media literacy and also copyright which is not surprising as Andrew Gowers, the author of the Gowers report on copyright,  is a member of [...]

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May 08 2009

Govan High School Future Skills Symposium

On Friday 24th April we attended a Future Skills Symposium at Govan High School.  The school is one of our most active Project partners through the work of Ian McCracken the Learning Resources Manager there. The Framework (Future Skills) of 71 core transferable skills is the work of Philip Graham, the Depute Head and Ian [...]

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May 01 2009

Open Space technology meets information literacy

As part of its strategy of working with supportive organisations outside the library and information world the Scottish Information Literacy Project has been working with the careers arm of Skills Development Scotland (SDS) to raise awareness of information literacy as a career management strategy. Following meetings with SDS Staff last year we agreed to hold [...]

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