Scottish Information Literacy Project

The 100th blog which is in itself quite a milestone as we have made 100 posts in a little over a year, and my last as Director of the Scottish Information Literacy Project. Following the latest reorganisation here, I will be taking early retirement under the University’s Voluntary Early Release scheme and will be leaving [...]

A couple of weeks ago I spent the day in a Junior (Primary) 1 class as part of the work I’m doing for Learning and Teaching Scotland CfE Literacy Team – Real and Relevant – Information and Critical Literacy Skills for the 21st Century Learner’ (Early and First Level). The day was amazing with lots [...]

The Winter issue 2009 of the Journal of Information Literacy  has been published.
Of particular interest is the Editorial by Susie Andretta   The multifaceted nature of information literacy: solving the Rubik cube puzzle. (1-5) 

The collection of papers presented in this issue positions information literacy in diverse contexts, implying that this phenomenon has finally permeated our social, [...]

Heard from Jo Parker at the Open University recently about a project they have been working on called iKnow (Information and Knowledge at Work)  for the last couple of years, which has involved building information literacy/management materials for employers to use.
The front page of the training materials state that:
An estimated 6.4 hours per employee are spent looking [...]

Help is being asked to build up a full UK picture of school libraries by completing a questionnaire.
The work instigated by the School Libraries Group of CILIP (the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) and supported by the School Library Association and CILIP Scotland, with funds provided by the Wendy Drewett Bequest.
The survey is being managed by [...]

A couple of weeks ago (November 30th- 1st December) I attended an invitation only conference in Wales on the theme of ‘An Information Literacy Strategy for Wales?’  which was held at the attractively situated if geographically inconvenient University of Wales conference centre at Gregynog House.
All LIS sectors and Welsh education were represented and I was [...]

Thank you to everyone who completed the survey. There were a total of 74 responses of which 72 were from the secondary sector – a response rate of 20%.
The survey suggests that the school librarians are tending to concentrate primarily on the Learning Experiences and Outcomes and not the Principle Papers which are said to be “essential reading [...]

I recently participated in a Round Table discussion on
the growing importance of information literacy to the profession generally and CILIP’s policy and advocacy activities in particular.
The session was very ablly chaired by Biddy Fisher, Vice-President of CILIP and Chair of the Policy Forum.
This was
primarily a scoping exercise to identify the place of information literacy within professional practice [...]

Thanks to Carol Stewart for highlighting an article in TESS -  Zero tolerance on illiteracy  which is about about a new report  - A Vision for Scotland
The new report lays out recommendations on how to become ‘world’s first fully-literate nation’
Scotland can become the world’s first fully-literate nation by declaring zero tolerance on illiteracy according to a “visionary” plan [...]

Last month the CILIP’s LIRG (Library and Information Research Group)meeting was held at Loughborough University where  members of the Department of Information Science presented their research.  Of particular interest to project partners in Higher Education /  Academic Librarians is research carried out by Helen Young on Evaluating the impact of Academic Librarians on their user community (that is some of their academic [...]