Scottish Information Literacy Project

Aberdeenshire Library and Information Service started filming last week on their Libraries R 4 Learning Project: Multimedia clips. As one of those approached, I travelled north last week (2nd and 3rd February 2010) to do some filming. It was an interesting process writing the scripts for the introduction sections on Information Literacy, Information Literacy in schools and Information [...]

An open letter to the Prime Minister re UK School Libraries has been sent by various organisations, including the CSG Information Literacy Group,  in response to the statement made by the Government about the online petition to make school libraries statutory.

CILIP supports the call for statutory school libraries A small group of people from the Youth and School Libraries Joint Committee are putting together a Libraries for schools manifesto. The text below is the latest draft February 2010: Every child, at every stage, is entitled to: designated library staff able to encourage ‘wider reading and reading [...]

There was a posting on LIS-LINK@JISCMAIL.AC.UK by Karen Rolfe, Assistant Librarian User Services @ National Oceanographic Library summarising the information she received to a question she had posed about the technology\software\applications that people are using to support information literacy.  Which I thought might be of interest to some of you. _______________  Total number of responses received 10  Questions and replies (number of responses [...]

The latest issue of Library and Information Research is now available online Issue 105 contains a number of invited contribution papers (from the projects partners so) is focused on current information literacy initiatives in Scotland especially in the schools sector.  Libraries R 4 Learning: supporting the Curriculum for Excellence in Aberdeenshire - Sue Cromar Collecting case studies [...]

Debbi is well known to the project through her involvement as Chair of CILIP’s Information Literacy Group and LILAC (Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference) which is now in its sixth year and attracts international delegates. Currently Deputy Director of Information and Learning Services at the University of Worcester since 2007 and prior to that was a Faculty [...]