Scottish Information Literacy Project

Aberdeenshire Library and Information Service started filming last week on their Libraries R 4 Learning Project: Multimedia clips. As one of those approached, I travelled north last week (2nd and 3rd February 2010) to do some filming. It was an interesting process writing the scripts for the introduction sections on Information Literacy, Information Literacy in schools and Information [...]

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 them [...]

Transition is an area of interest to the project and I attended a couple of parallel session related to this topic
 
Michelle Schneider, University of Leeds – Reach for Excellence: Information Literacy supports widening participation
 
This scheme supports academically able young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, who for a variety of reasons feel higher education is out of their [...]