Information Literacy Group and CILIP join forces to launch Media and Information Literacy Alliance

The Information Literacy Group and CILIP have announced a joint initiative to launch a new cross-sector Media and Information Literacy Alliance (http://www.mila.org.uk), with the aim of “helping people be happier, healthier, safer and better-informed in their online lives”. Chair of the Information Literacy Group Dr Jane Secker said, “’Media and Information Literacy’ (MIL) refers to […]

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Digital Proxies Workshops – Centre for Social Informatics – Napier University

Registrations are now open for workshops on how information workers act as ‘digital proxies’. Digital proxies, for this research, are those who access online systems on behalf of others to help their clients – with their permission, possibly informally. For example, a staff member may help someone log into a benefits-claim system and enter data

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The Finnish approach to teaching IL and the fight against fake news

There is an excellent article in The Guardian by Jon Henley, published 29th January 2020. It explores how Finland decided to tackle the problem of misinformation, disinformation and malinformation (terms that are preferred over “fake news”). Have a wee look here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/28/fact-from-fiction-finlands-new-lessons-in-combating-fake-news The nub of it is that since 2016, the Finnish national curriculum has

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Informed societies: why information literacy matters for citizenship, participation and democracy edited by Stéphane Goldstein

Hello, You might be interested in the recently-published book edited by Stéphane Goldstein on Informed societies: why information literacy matters for citizenship, participation and democracy. There are excellent chapters written by three members of the Information Literacy Community of Practice for Scotland: John Crawford, Bill Johnston, Konstantina (Dina) Martzoukou. Others equally exciting by Geoff Walton,

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Honorary Membership Awards from CILIP Scotland

CILIP Scotland Honorary Membership 2019:  Jenny Foreman, Head Librarian, Scottish Government Library and Information Service and Cleo Jones, Lifelong Learning Strategic Officer, City of Edinburgh Council, have been awarded Honorary Memberships for CILIP Scotland 2019 for their joint efforts in raising the awareness and importance of Information Literacy and the role it plays in every

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Erasmus+ study visit to Bergen: public libraries and their roles and work in inclusion and learning

In May this year, I was really pleased to join an Erasmus+ study visit to Bergen, Norway. It was organised by the Norwegian government agency, Diku, with the aim of exploring “the roles and work of public libraries relating to inclusion and learning”. It drew together participants from 16 European countries, and I was one

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Health Literacy information

We’re delighted to recommend the following freely available ebook. International Handbook of Health Literacy was published yesterday open access: http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=1005225 You may be particularly interested to look at Dr Evelyn McElhinney’s contribution at chapter 39 ‘Health literacy practices of adults in an avatar-based immersive social virtual world: a sociocultural perspective of new media health literacies’

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