Scottish Information Literacy Project

A couple of weeks ago (November 30th- 1st December) I attended an invitation only conference in Wales on the theme of ‘An Information Literacy Strategy for Wales?’  which was held at the attractively situated if geographically inconvenient University of Wales conference centre at Gregynog House.
All LIS sectors and Welsh education were represented and I was [...]

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 need to [...]

Thanks to Carol Stewart for alerting me to
The new Building the Curriculum 4: skills for learning, life and work  policy guidance is now available online.
The publication is part of a series of Building the Curriculum papers and is intended to further support planning, design and delivery of the curriculum in pre-school centres, schools and colleges. It sets [...]

For anyone interested in the work Kate King is doing at Edinburgh Prison Libraries Edinburgh City Libraries has a blog called Tales of One City  where progress regarding the prison library service is recorded.
Thanks to Cathy Kearney for this bit of information.

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A lot going on recently and I have been at Brighton University, making my last visit as an external examiner so a bit behind on writing up. We have been engaged on an extensive programme of meetings on workplace information literacy issues with a view to devising a programme of action.
On Monday 24th November [...]