Archive for July, 2009

Jul 22 2009

Ofcom Update: Ofcom launches campaign to help keep children safe online this summer

Published by christine irving under Uncategorized

I received this update from Ofcom and thought I would share it with you. Although it mentions Public Libraries it only does so in relation to finding out where to find computer / Internet courses however this could lead Public Libraries promoting their courses to parents. In relation to schools it talks about finding out what [...]

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Jul 22 2009

Journal of Information Literacy

The summer 2009 issue is now out – it is a special issue with a collection of articles from the LILAC Conference.  Although most of the articles are from HE (a reflection of those presenting and attending LILAC) there are items of interest / relevance to other organisations:

collaboration with teaching staff
integration of information literacy activities relevant [...]

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Jul 16 2009

Survey of Scottish school librarians and their knowledge and use of Curriculum for Excellence.

As part of the work commissioned by Learning and Teaching Scotland Curriculum for Excellence Literacy Team the project is carrying out an online survey of Scottish school librarians and their knowledge and use of Curriculum for Excellence with regard to information literacy.
We are aware of some IL activities in this area:

piloting and creating new activities
mapping IL activities across the [...]

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Jul 13 2009

Post Open Space meeting June 15th

The Post Open Space meeting was held at Glasgow Caledonian University on 15th June 2009 as a direct result of the Open Space meeting of 27th March 2009 organised and facilitated by Skills Development Scotland staff (http://caledonianblogs.net/information-literacy/2009/05/01/open-space-technology-meets-information-literacy/) bringing together key stakeholders from education sectors and employability, skills and information agendas to identify key factors in [...]

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Jul 13 2009

IFLA Information Literacy Section Newsletter

Reading through the June 2009 IFLA Information Literacy Section Newsletter  I came across quite a few bits of information that I thought many of you might be interested in. Items include:

Using RSS feeds for Current Awareness
Faculty and Instructional Technology Conversations – what your faculty and IT staff say about Information Literacy when you’re not in the room. [...]

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Jul 09 2009

Information: interactions and impact – i3 Conference sessions (information literacy and schools plus the unemployed and information literacy boundaries)

My final posting about the i3 conference sessions I attended relate to information literacy and schools plus information literacy and the unemployed and information literacy boundaries. As most of you know the schools arena is an area in which the project is heavily involved in and the two session speakers are well known to the [...]

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Jul 08 2009

Information: interactions and impact – i3 Conference sessions (information literacy and health)

There were several sessions I attended that looked at the issues surrounding information literacy and health / health issues.
Audrey Marshall – Weighing in to the literacy debate: findings from a research study on the role of ICTs for weight management
The Net.Weight project is a University of Brighton project funded by the Department of Health (England) investigating the potential [...]

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Jul 07 2009

Information: interactions and impact – i3 Conference sessions (online communities)

I blogged earlier about the keynotes at this conference now I’ll share with you my notes / thoughts from some of the sessions I attended.
Hazel Hall – shared relationships, spaces and online information behaviours: a social exchange and capital perspective (link to PowerPoint presentation) 
The paper was about an academic study looking at ”To what extent are online information [...]

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Jul 07 2009

Information: interactions and impact – i3 Conference

This is the second year for the i3 conference the first was held in 2007 (it is held every two years). I found the first conference very stimulating and was pleased to attend once more as it certainly does what it says
i3 brings together researchers and practitioners interested in exploring such interconnections between information behaviour, information [...]

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