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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The Cross Party Group on Digital Participation met at Holyrood on the 2nd of April. Professor Michael Fourman was the first of the evening’s three speakers. He spoke about the forthcoming Royal Society of Edinburgh’s (RSE) final report on digital participation, having co-chaired the Group which prepared it. The interim report has been quite controversial
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Good news story from Geoff Wallton. His article – Using assignment data to analyse a blended information literacy intervention: A quantitative approach Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 45 (1) pp53-63, written with Mark Hepworth has been selected by the American Library Association’s Library Instruction Round Table’s (LIRT’s) Top Twenty Committee as a 2013 Top Twenty article. The committee noted
Last year the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) launched an enquiry entitled ‘Spreading the benefits of digital participation’. About ten evidence submissions were sent in from the Library and information sector in Scotland, including the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS) and the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC). I submitted
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I’ve been following the discussions about Teaching Information literacy through comics on the LinkedIn Group Library and Information Research Methods It’s been an interesting discussion and Ryan Scicluna Library Assistant at the University of Malta who posted a message saying Hi, does anyone know of any good reference articles about information literacy and graphic novels?
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Hi everyone and Happy New Year Can I please draw members’ attention to this report by Professor Dorothy Williams which has a number of references to information literacy in schools http://www.scottishlibraries.org/storage/sectors/schools/SLIC_RGU_Impact_of_School_Libraries_2013.pdf Originally added by Ian McCracken
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I attended the Cross Party Group on Digital Participation meeting at Holyrood with Jenny Foreman on Tuesday 10th December. Sorry about the delay in posting but I was overcome by festive season sloth and I am only just recovering. The meeting was on the theme of Digital Participation in the workplace with two speakers and
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The latest CILIP update has a number of articles of relevance to the CoP. The one I found most interesting was “call for literacy to take centre stage” relating to the Chartered Institute for IT. The website format (at least on my computer) is a bit odd, but worth having a look at it http://dlfl.bcs.org
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After an interested meeting of the CoP in Edinburgh on Bonfire Night, I thought I’d share a link or two. Well, it was the day of Bonfire Night, we didn’t get together to forgo the fireworks! We discussed how the term digital native is misleading. There is an assumption digital native denotes an innate understanding of technology and
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