Scottish Information Literacy Project

Couple of blog postings that people might be interested in that relate to an Infolit iSchool Second Life event on 23rd April: Information Literacy meets Library 2.0 Peter Godwin and Jo Parker Impressions from the LILAC (information literacy) conference Vicki Cormie talking about Andrew Walsh’s session on using mobiles, Marshall Dozier talking about Peter Godwin’s, which also focused on [...]

I reported in my first posting on LILAC 2009 about Moira Bent and Elizabeth Stockdale’s presentation Integrating Information Literacy as a habit of learning: Assessing the impact of a golden thread of IL in the curriculum  for anyone who is interested the presentation is now on slideshare.

I only managed to attend one of the sesions on emerging technology Are we sharing our toys in the sandpit? A discussion on issues surrounding the re-use and re-purposing of electronic information literacy learning objects in the UK. where there emerged lots of the issues surrounding this area and the possiblity of interested parties coming together. The use of [...]

  This year’s LILAC, held at Cardiff, was yet another administrative triumph for the organising committee with all the components of a successful international conference present including two superb evening events. I shall certainly be going back to Caerphilly Castle again. With the 5th year completed a pattern is now established with the continuing predominance [...]

Although Linda Jones and Greta Figgens (University of Portsmouth) ’Destination information!: taking staff on an information literacy journey’ was about library staff development some of the resulting activities did include transition for new students to HE. Destination Information is the name of a successful staff development day held to introduce staff to information literacy (IL) and make [...]

I’m amazed how quickly LILAC comes around each year. This year was the 5th and it took place at Cardiff University. As usual there were familar faces like John and I’s but this year I noticed that there were quite a few first timers who were enthused about the conference - the keynotes, the parallel sessions, the networking evening [...]