Scottish Information Literacy Project

Just finished reading  A Vision for Scotland  report and identified a few items that tied in with the projects thinking and with the current project Real and Relevant – Information and Critical Literacy Skills for the 21st Century plus the work of our partners:

‘it is necessary to start literacy programmes from a very early age’ (p13)
‘good CPD is [...]

Jorum has now opened up for the sharing of resources, created under Creative Commons (CC) licences, through its new collection JorumOpen.
Jorum provides access to free learning and teaching resources, created and contributed by teaching staff from UK Further and Higher Education Institutions. Jorum offers two collections – JorumOpen and JorumUK, containing a wide variety of [...]

Copyright is a big problem so thanks to Carol Stewart for notifying me about news on the LTS website about New copyright proposals look to benefit educational and research institutions  .
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has opened the second stage of a consultation looking at specific amendments to UK copyright legislation, as identified by Andrew Gowers [...]

I see the LILAC 2010 draft programme for the parallel sessions are now posted on the LILAC 2010 website and that my presentation is first up in the parallel sessions for the conference.
Monday 29th March 2010
3pm – 3.45pm Begin at the beginning – Information Literacy in primary schools  – Christine Irving
4.25pm – 5.10pm  Employability and information literacy: [...]

Another gem from the Information Literacy Community of Practice. This time a posting from CCHS Library Learning Commons re the importance of paying close attention to your “market,” adjusting your service model, and remaining relevant to your customers.  
In the world of school libraries the rats leaving the ship is analogous to finding your job on the cut list. [...]

Thanks to Lesley Thomson and Jenny Foreman (Scottish Government) for highlighting the following article in the Information Literacy Community of Practice
Article from the New York Times reporting on research sponsored by Google and developed by the University of Maryland and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, “aimed at discerning the differences between how children and adults [...]

Sheila Webber has posted her presentation – International Perspectives on IL from the meeting on an Information Literacy Strategy for Wales on 30 November 2009 at Gregynogg Hall in Wales. John also spoke about the work of the Scottish Information Literacy Project and the lessons which Wales can learn from us his thoughts on the event were posted on the project [...]

Email message that you may or may not have seen.
LILAC 2010 would like to remind all interested that the closing date for nominations for the Information Literacy Practitioner of the Year 2010 (A Joint CSG IL, CONUL and LAI Award)  is fast approaching (31st January 2010)! 
We welcome nominations from all sectors. Individuals or groups may [...]

Happy New Year to everyone.
First day back in the office and I’m busy working my way through my emails. It feels strange to be in the office without John but as he said in his last posting although he has retired from the university he is still going to be active.
Just before Christmas I received some [...]