Scottish Information Literacy Project

Just back from a 2 day JISC Regional South West Summer Conference – The Learner Experience where John and I were asked to do a presentation about the project  - initial feedback from the organisers is that it was well received.
We shared the presentation slot with Exeter College talking about their information literacy work, issues etc. [...]

Yesterday I attended a stimulating and interesting event at the ELISA Open Forum 2009 – Libraries & Learning in the E-environment in Edinburgh. The programme was packed but well paced with lots of interesting presentations, discussions and cross sector delegates from library and information services in Edinburgh.
The morning keynote speaker was Nora Mogey, Head of Learning Services, Information [...]

 
This is clearly an extremely helpful piece of work and will attract much interest and many citations.  We particularly like it because it highlights issues about which we have been campaigning for some time. It also draws attention to action needs and points which again reflect our experience.
There are useful references to staff training: [...]

This idea comes from Mark Hepworth’s blog – “a kayaking trip: an adventure, that involves battling through rapids; avoiding whirl pools or colliding with rocks; having to navigate channels; using one’s knowledge of the water (environment), the kayak, the padel (tools); following an overall route or journey and so on.”
http://markhepworthsblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/kayaking-metaphor-for-facilitating.html
I can see this appealing to [...]

The National Information Literacy Forum in the US is mobilising supporters to join their campaign for the national recognition of October 15th – November 15th as National Information Literacy Month

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Couple of interesting questions in Bonnie Cheuk’s weblog posed by Mark Hepworth – why do people generally shy away from thinking about how they learn and why do organisations seem unwilling or don’t appreciate the need to spend time and money developing people’s information literacy and information management skills i.e. their information processing capacity?
As [...]

Recently came across a blog posting about a school librarian’s thoughts and experiences about GLOW (Scotland’s national intranet for education) entitled Get Glowing which makes interesting reading about the issues she is facing also her experience on an introductory presentation on GLOW to the staff at her school. Jen’s other thoughts and activities also make for interesting reading [...]