Scottish Information Literacy Project

This years LILAC took place in Limerick with both John Crawford and myself presenting the last of the Scottish Information Literacy Projects which appropriately dealt with:

Begin at the Beginning: Information and Critical Literacy in Curriculum for Excellence Early & First Level (Nursery and Primary Schools) (powerpoint presentation) Begin at the beginning – Information Literacy in primary schools [...]

I see the LILAC 2010 draft programme for the parallel sessions are now posted on the LILAC 2010 website and that my presentation is first up in the parallel sessions for the conference.
Monday 29th March 2010
3pm – 3.45pm Begin at the beginning – Information Literacy in primary schools  – Christine Irving
4.25pm – 5.10pm  Employability and information literacy: [...]

Happy New Year to everyone.
First day back in the office and I’m busy working my way through my emails. It feels strange to be in the office without John but as he said in his last posting although he has retired from the university he is still going to be active.
Just before Christmas I received some [...]

The 100th blog which is in itself quite a milestone as we have made 100 posts in a little over a year, and my last as Director of the Scottish Information Literacy Project. Following the latest reorganisation here, I will be taking early retirement under the University’s Voluntary Early Release scheme and will be leaving [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The third Scottish Information Literacy Project Open Meeting will take place on Wednesday 16th September between 10.0am  and 4.15 pm  at Glasgow Caledonian University. It is a free event to encourage maximum participation.  The programme is enclosed below.
As with last year’s event there will be a strong focus on partnership involvement with presentations by  Project [...]

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 IL activities across the [...]

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 the room. [...]