Scottish Information Literacy Project

A recent article by Dylan Jones-Evans Information Literacy and the Digital Divide  (Daily Post, 10th August 2009) discusses the Welsh Affairs Committee report which “highlighted the problem areas with limited or no access to high-speed internet connects”. Whilst attention has been drawn to the following quote: The report by the Welsh Affairs Select Committee is a welcome first step [...]

The summer 2009 issue is now out – it is a special issue with a collection of articles from the LILAC Conference.  Although most of the articles are from HE (a reflection of those presenting and attending LILAC) there are items of interest / relevance to other organisations: collaboration with teaching staff integration of information literacy [...]

As part of the work commissioned by Learning and Teaching Scotland Curriculum for Excellence Literacy Team the project is carrying out an online survey of Scottish school librarians and their knowledge and use of Curriculum for Excellence with regard to information literacy. We are aware of some IL activities in this area: piloting and creating new activities mapping [...]

The Post Open Space meeting was held at Glasgow Caledonian University on 15th June 2009 as a direct result of the Open Space meeting of 27th March 2009 organised and facilitated by Skills Development Scotland staff (http://caledonianblogs.net/information-literacy/2009/05/01/open-space-technology-meets-information-literacy/) bringing together key stakeholders from education sectors and employability, skills and information agendas to identify key factors in [...]

Reading through the June 2009 IFLA Information Literacy Section Newsletter  I came across quite a few bits of information that I thought many of you might be interested in. Items include: Using RSS feeds for Current Awareness Faculty and Instructional Technology Conversations – what your faculty and IT staff say about Information Literacy when you’re not in [...]

My final posting about the i3 conference sessions I attended relate to information literacy and schools plus information literacy and the unemployed and information literacy boundaries. As most of you know the schools arena is an area in which the project is heavily involved in and the two session speakers are well known to the [...]

There were several sessions I attended that looked at the issues surrounding information literacy and health / health issues. Audrey Marshall – Weighing in to the literacy debate: findings from a research study on the role of ICTs for weight management The Net.Weight project is a University of Brighton project funded by the Department of Health (England) investigating [...]

I blogged earlier about the keynotes at this conference now I’ll share with you my notes / thoughts from some of the sessions I attended. Hazel Hall – shared relationships, spaces and online information behaviours: a social exchange and capital perspective (link to PowerPoint presentation)  The paper was about an academic study looking at ”To what extent are [...]

This is the second year for the i3 conference the first was held in 2007 (it is held every two years). I found the first conference very stimulating and was pleased to attend once more as it certainly does what it says i3 brings together researchers and practitioners interested in exploring such interconnections between information behaviour, [...]

Just back from a 2 day JISC Regional South West Summer Conference – The Learner Experience where John and I were asked to do a presentation about the project  - initial feedback from the organisers is that it was well received. We shared the presentation slot with Exeter College talking about their information literacy work, issues [...]