In the Weekly News from CILIP, 22 May 2014 there was an item and link to ‘Social learning at work’. What caught my eye was that I had missed Learning at Work Week which was last week Monday 19 May. The other was “Natasha and Jacqueline blog about how important information literacy is to empowering learning and development […]
Having recently attended my first meeting of the Scottish Information Literacy – Community of Practice, I was asked to prepare a short post for the blog. I currently work for a land-based HEI as a campus librarian; but also have experience of working in public, school, schools library services and FE libraries. At the moment
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As a new member of the Community of Practice, Christine invited me to share my reasons for joining the group and any IL activities I’m involved in. I work at Scottish Borders Campus in Galahsiels which is a shared Campus between Heriot-Watt University and Borders College. Although I’m on the payroll of the University the
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Further to John’s blog,, I recently (Wednesday 7th May) sent the e-mail below to the central enquiries unit of the Scottish Government http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Contacts Can I please encourage others to place similar enquiries: I am most concerned that the success we have achieved by getting Information Literacy in the RSE report will not translate into Government action
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The Scottish Government has just launched a new strategy outlining how digital technology can be used to tackle inequalities and benefit communities across the country The National Digital Participation Framework for Local Action maps out how helping people to get online and become confident users of the internet can open up new possibilities in healthcare,
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The Final Report of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Inquiry into digital participation was published on 30 April 2014. The Report is available from the RSE website in PDF, eBook and HTML formats. If you would like a printed copy of the report, please contact Susan Lennox at slennox@royalsoced.org.uk. A copy of the presentation given
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