Scottish Information Literacy Project

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 [...]

 Last month, before the Scottish Learning Festival took place (23-24 September), attendees were invited to submit questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education for her to answer.  I submitted the question below but only a few were answered directly by the minister at the conference. The remainder were subsequently dealt with by email.  The minister’s [...]

Partly with a view to promoting the value of information skills as an essential national resource but also with the wider concerns of the information profession very much in mind, I am standing for election to CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) Council. All information professionals, irrespective of those who they wish to [...]

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 [...]

Brilliant article about school librarians in TESS includes our very own Ian McCracken, Govan High who is a project partner and on our project advisory group. Article also includes quotes / case studies from other activists in the field: Duncan Wright, convener of the School Library Association (Scotland) and librarian at Stewart Melville’s College; Wendy [...]