Reposted from CILIP ILG April 20, 2017 Stéphane Goldstein, Advocacy and Outreach Officer of the CILIP Information Literacy Group and Executive Director of InformAll, outlines our recent submission to the inquiry into fake news that is being conducted by the House of Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport. In January 2017, the House of Commons Select […]
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From Infomation Today Europe 31st March 2017 Originally added by Fiona Laing
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Dr Jane Secker was nominated by Emily Shields. She is the winner of the Informed Peer Recognition Award 2017, recognising her significant contribution and her activities as an exceptional information professional. The text of her nomination is below. “I would like to nominate Jane Secker, Copyright and Digital Literacy Advisor at the London School of Economics
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Scotland was well represented at the recent ECIL2017 conference, with myself, John Crawford, Bill Johnston and Kirsten McCormick (hope I got that right Kirsten!) all in attendance. I was presenting the highlights from a book chapter I have written which gives a checklist of eight main things to consider when you are writing or adapting
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Slides from Information literacy and digital inclusion: from advocacy to action Sharon Wagg Tinder Foundation, UK Jane Secker London School of Economics and CILIP Information Literacy Group, UK Stéphane Goldstein InformAll, UK European Conference on Information Literacy ECIL2016 Prague 10 October 2016 Originally added by Fiona Laing
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The Scottish Government has published A plan for Scotland: the government’s programme for Scotland 2016-17 “We will invest £450,000 in the Public Library Improvement Fund to support innovative ways for people to use public libraries. A pilot area will be selected by the Scottish Library and Information Council in the next year to try out a
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This new book explores critical literacy theory and provides practical guidance to how it can be taught and applied in libraries. The approach taken in critical literacy is not to read texts in isolation, but to develop an understanding of the cultural, ideological and sociolinguistic contexts in which they are created and read. The book
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Over the past couple of months I have been adding links to articles that I thought may be of interest to the community under the Resourses tab. I now realise that doing this does not send out an alert/ I am now adding them as a blog post so I hope that if you haven’t
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This year I attended i3 with my fellow Edinburgh Napier University Centre for Social Informatics PhD Students. The papers we delivered included topics on: the role of the census in public policy makers; information literacy; grass roots campaigns on public library closures in the UK; could social networking help NEET young people gain employment; knowledge
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i3 is a great event to attend and speak at. My thanks to everyone who attended my presentation How can information literacy be modelled from a lifelong learning perspective? Now that the Conference is over, it is time to start writing the full paper for the special issue of the Journal of Information Science (JIS).
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