Scottish Information Literacy Project

A recent article by Dylan Jones-Evans Information Literacy and the Digital Divide  (Daily Post, 10th August 2009) discusses the Welsh Affairs Committee report which “highlighted the problem areas with limited or no access to high-speed internet connects”.
Whilst attention has been drawn to the following quote:
The report by the Welsh Affairs Select Committee is a welcome first step but if [...]

There certainly seems to be a lot of news / activities regarding school libraries.
Back in June there were a couple of articles in CILIP’s Library + Information gazette with the front page showing Into battle for school libraries  and School librarians: a role that deserves shouting about on page 4 & 19.
At this years Umbrela Conference [...]

The third Scottish Information Literacy Project Open Meeting will take place on Wednesday 16th September between 10.0am  and 4.15 pm  at Glasgow Caledonian University. It is a free event to encourage maximum participation.  The programme is enclosed below.
As with last year’s event there will be a strong focus on partnership involvement with presentations by  Project [...]

Thanks to Sheila Webber for blogging about this 4 page article - 
Fister, B. (2009) “Fostering Information Literacy Through Faculty Development.” Library issues, 29 (4). http://homepages.gac.edu/~fister/
LIfacultydevelopment.pdf
It’s a really interesting article about developing academic’s information literacy through workshops and collaborative working with academic librarians. I liked the following
mastering new technology seemed to be the greatest challenge librarians faced. Yet [...]

For those of you not on  LIS-INFOLITERACY@JISCMAIL.AC.UK there was an email sent out asking for support in the campaign to make school libraries a statutory right for young people in this country by taking time to sign an e-petition on the 10 Downing Street website and help influence future education policy: 
We, the undersigned, call on Her Majesty’s Government to accept in [...]

Recently I attended the launch of the Ofcom Scotland Communications Market report, published on August 6th 2009. http://www.ofcom.org.uk/media/features/cmrscot.  Ofcom staff presented the report and much of the discussion centred round the decline in spending by BBC Scotland and STV and there was concern about low Broadband take-up in Glasgow. There is really only one page [...]

Thought some of you might be interested in the following event :
Title: Introducing Twitter as a professional development tool
Date: 17 Sep 2009
Time: 09:30 – 12:30
Venue: [Google map ] The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN
Fees: CILIP members:GBP 20.00; institutional members:GBP 25.00; non-members:GBP 30.00
Organiser CILIPS
Contact Catherine Kearney (t: 01698 458888; f: 01698 283170; e: cilips@slainte.org.uk [...]

Apologies for the delay in posting this brief report on the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals’ (CILIP’s) Under one Umbrella conference at the University of Hertfordshire at Hatfield on the 14th- 15th July but holidays etc have got in the way.  I had to be up early for the 7 o’clock flight on [...]