IFLA statement on digital literacy: resource pack
This document contains case studies and links to digital literacy projects across the world Originally added by Fiona Laing
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Critical digital literacy: ten key readings for our distrustful media age
Reposted from the London School of Economics and Political Science Blog Originally added by Fiona Laing
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Fake news and real people
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism held focus group discussions in Finland, Spain, the UK and the US. Here’s what people said about fake news – and more. Originally added by Fiona Laing
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Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy The
IFLA now encourages its members to engage in discussions on media and information literacy worldwide. They have produced a guide for those interested in drawing more attention to the key role libraries play. Originally added by Fiona Laing
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Inquiry into fake news: the CILIP ILG response
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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Fake news and the librarian’s duty of care
From Infomation Today Europe 31st March 2017 Originally added by Fiona Laing
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IPRA 2017 – Winner – Dr Jane Secker
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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Good news for libraries in Scotland!
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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Digital skills articles
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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Information: interactions and impact (i3) conferences – more reflections
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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