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New MILCOP website launched

The Scotland’s Media and Information Literacy Community of Practice (MILCOP) have launched this new website to support the recently renamed community. This website will contain an archive of old posts from the previous Right Information website as well as news relating to media and information literacy and be a place for information and resources for […]

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Information, Political, Digital and Ethical Literacy in Education

CILIPS and other partners have been reaching out to engage with other work that could be linked to media and information literacy. Recently a very popular webinar was held with Dr Huw Davies, who is currently undertaking a project alongside Education Scotland aimed at equipping teachers and young learners across Scotland with the capacity to

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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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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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MIL (Media and Information Literacy) Week Event in Aberdeen

A small, but select, group of people gathered together on Halloween in The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen to hear two presentations.  They were joined by a larger group of virtual attendees from the UK and beyond. Jacqueline Geekie, Public Libraries Representative on CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) shared the new definition of Information Literacy

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Information literacy and digital inclusion: from advocacy to action

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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Reflections from Information: Interactions and Impact (i3) Conference

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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The Welsh Information Literacy Project comes to an end

I attended the last meeting of the Welsh Information Literacy Project in Wrexham last Thursday, 26th March. The Project is coming to an end after five years of productive work. During this time it has been funded by Cymal, the Welsh agency supporting libraries and museums. Thanks to Cymal funding, it has been one of

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Information literacy is for life, not just for a good degree

Good to see Information literacy is for life, not just for a good degree by Dr Charles Inskip a lecturer at UCL’s Department of Information Studies and a member of CILIP’s Information Literacy Project Board. In addition to the information on the web page there is a  literature review which includes work by John Crawford and I. Charles would

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