Scottish Information Literacy Project

Thought some of you might be interested in the following event : Title: Introducing Twitter as a professional development tool Date: 17 Sep 2009 Time: 09:30 – 12:30 Venue: [Google map ] The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Fees: CILIP members:GBP 20.00; institutional members:GBP 25.00; non-members:GBP 30.00 Organiser CILIPS Contact Catherine Kearney (t: [...]

  This is clearly an extremely helpful piece of work and will attract much interest and many citations.  We particularly like it because it highlights issues about which we have been campaigning for some time. It also draws attention to action needs and points which again reflect our experience. There are useful references to staff [...]

At the end of November John and I attended the SLIC FE Conference ( see John’s post) and one of the speakers was Phil Bradley described in the programme as the “Well known Internet consultant, librarian and popular CILIP ‘Update’ columnist”. During his presentation he talked about practical uses for Web 2.0 which he described [...]

Last week was a busy week for the project with meetings and or presentations everyday. On Monday morning we were in Greenock at Inverclyde Libraries talking with the People’s Network Librarian Sean McNamara about identifying areas for possible IL input into existing courses they offer and new courses for 2009. Courses such as an employability [...]