how important information literacy is to empowering learning and development in the workplace

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 […]

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Spreading the benefits of digital participation: RSE Inquiry Report

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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Cross Party Group on Digital Participation 02.04.14

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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Using assignment data to analyse a blended information literacy intervention: A quantitative approach

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

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Spreading the benefits of digital participation

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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The Use of Graphic Novels in Information Literacy Instruction

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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A Healthcare Lens for the SCONUL Seven Pillars Model 

A Healthcare Lens sounds like a brilliant idea and indeed different lenses or ways of looking at information literacy is something I’m a strong advocate of. I therefore read with interest Michelle Dalton’s blog post introducing a healthcare lens for the Seven Pillars of Information Literacy and the subsequent discussions that took place in the

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Information literacy at the Scottish Parliament (2)

As you will have gathered from Ian’s post we both attended the Holyrood Cross Party Group on Digital Participation on the evening of Wednesday 4th September to give presentations. My presentation was Information skills for a 21st century Scotland: an online information literacy community of practice. I was a bit unsure as to how we

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Information Literacy at the Scottish Parliament

I was recently asked to give a presentation on Information Literacy to the Cross-party Group on Digital Participation. I contacted John Crawford and he was also able to take part. Last night, we gave our presentations. Mine was “skills and assumptions“, highlighting some of the challenges pupils/students etc face-situations familiar to us all but seemingly

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