Response to the RSE Enquiry into Digital Participation

I have read the responses already posted below and realise my response is very similar but here is my reponse anyway: 1. What do you think are the current benefits of digital participation and using the internet? There are many benefits of digital participation and to using the internet and these are well documented. As […]

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Evidence to the Royal Society of Edinburgh for their enquiry into digital participation

Dear all, copy evidence I have just submitted to RSE. John RSE Evidence: Spreading the benefits of digital participation From Dr John Crawford, Chair, the Right Information:  Information Skills for a 21st Century Scotland. Before addressing some of the specific questions below I think it is important to be clear about what digital participation actually

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New guidelines for citing moving image and sound sources

The British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC) has drawn up and issued new guidelines for citing moving image and sound sources including: film television programmes radio programmes audio recordings DVD extras including interviews and commentaries clips trailers adverts idents stings non-broadcast material amateur footage archival material (catalogued and not catalogued) podcasts vodcasts DVD study

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Digital inclusion health hubs launched in England

In last months CILIP Update there was a news item about ‘Digital inclusion health hubs launched’ which caught my eye. “DIGITAL hubs to give people the skills they need to access online health information are being created in libraries and community centres.” P6 The news item is based upon an article originally published in E-Government

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Aberdeenshire Information Literacy and Learning Librarian wins CILIP President’s Information Literacy Challenge

Congratulations to winner Jacqueline Geekie Information Literacy and Learning Librarian at Aberdeenshire Council. Jacqueline and colleague Jan Murdoch – a network librarian filmed a group of school pupils on a visit to Ellon Library to research a project on the Second World War and shows how the library service puts information literacy into action. See

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Health literacy: let’s think again

Catching up on my emails after being away and came across this interesting article ‘Health literacy: let’s think again’ by Graham Kramer a GP and National Clinical Lead Self Management and Health Literacy, Scottish Government. He starts by saying that he doesn’t like the term ‘health literacy’ as not many people understand it. Sounds familar!

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Scottish Government awards SLIC Digital Participation funding

Great news of SLIC’s Digital Funding – see announcment below. Hopefully information literacy will play a key role in any of the digital initiatives. “The Scottish Government has awarded the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) additional funding to support digital participation initiatives as part of the implementation of the national digital strategy. SLIC will

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