Scottish Information Literacy Project

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

If you haven’t read Curriculum for Excellence 4: Skills for learning, life and work then I would certainly recommend it.  I found it to be a very useful document which covers not just the school sector but everyone involved in lifelong learning. It sets the context: To meet the aspirations of Curriculum for Excellence, there will [...]

 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 [...]

Have just been reading a blog posting on 20 Ways to Celebrate Information Literacy Awareness Month by debhanson.   I like the use of celebrate plus the closing line Be ready. Be smart. Be information literate

Barack Obana, President of the United States of America, proclaims October 2009 as National Information Literacy Awareness Month and calls upon the people of the United States to recognize the important role information plays in our daily lives, and appreciate the need for a greater understanding of its impact. A lot of work has gone on in the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]