Scottish Information Literacy Project

Last week John and I attended the 2009 Scottish Learning Festival which mainly attracts the school sector in Scotland with an occasional scattering of FE and HE. However this year the main focus was the Curriculum for Excellence and I’m not sure if the later sectors of education were present or not as you never get [...]

Last Thursday 24 September 2009, CILIP’s Council unanimously endorsed the proposal to support the campaign to make school libraries statutory.
CILIP has issued a press release announcing their support of the campaign
This is great news – unfortunately I haven’t seen any items in the press.
The petition to make school libraries statutory is available to sign online [...]

The latest issue of Library and Information Research is now available online at http://www.lirg.org.uk/lir/ojs/index.php/lir/issue/current.
 There are several items of interest from a project point of view including for school librarians:
Christina Sacco Ritchie asks “Would evidence-based school librarianship work in the UK?”
Other articles include:

‘the important question “Do we need the information professions?”
“An evaluation of the National Year of [...]

The Scottish Information Literacy Project’s third Open meeting took place on Wednesday 16th September 2009 at Glasgow Caledonian University and about 45 people attended. It was a genuinely cross sectoral event with people attending from all library sectors, educational agencies, government organisations including the Scottish Government and academia.  Inevitably a few people dropped out at [...]

More news on the important role of school librarians from an international prospective. This time from UNESCO
 
UNESCO participated in the 38th Annual Conference of the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL) School Libraries in the Picture: Preparing Pupils and Students for the Future, which highlighted
 

the increasingly important role of school libraries to equip students in [...]

For anyone like me unable to attend IFLA due to financial constraints then Sheila Webber’s reports have been great. Most have been information literacy related as she has just started as a member of the Information Literacy Section committee of IFLA.
There has been nine reports in total  the latest IFLA reports: E-learning will be of interest to many.
As [...]

Latest posting from Peter Godwin on Information Literacy meets Library 2.0 blog   about three videos he has made with his friend and colleague Alan Bullimore at University of Bedfordshire on YouTube, with the help of their Learning Technology department.  Al and Pete’s Search Tips
They are all short and are intended to get students to contrast journals with magazines ; Google [...]