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Evidence to the Royal Society of Edinburgh for their enquiry into digital participation

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Dear all, copy evidence I have just submitted to RSE. John RSE Evidence: Spreading the benefits of digital participation From Dr John Crawford, Chair, the Right Information: Information Skills for a 21st Century Scotland. Before addressing some of the specific questions below I think it is important to be clear about what digital participation actually […]

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Mistakes multiplying over the internet

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It is quite worrying that a poem written in 1981 has been attributed to William Blake and has found its way onto school reading lists. This is a prime example of why information literacy is so important. Well done to Mr Pitchard, a school librarian in England for spotting it. Here’s the full news article:

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Digital inclusion health hubs launched in England

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In last months CILIP Update there was a news item about ‘Digital inclusion health hubs launched’ which caught my eye. “DIGITAL hubs to give people the skills they need to access online health information are being created in libraries and community centres.” P6 The news item is based upon an article originally published in E-Government

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Gin and tonic: making Boolean fun

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I have been catching up on my reading and came across this short piece in the March CILIP Update by Emily Houghton. In the piece she describes how she came across an example of how a librarian taught his university students about Boolean operators using the folowing approach Gin and whiskey bottles were acquired and

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CILIPS IL Group membership

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Most of you will know that the IL sub-group in CILIPS became a fully-fledged group earlier this year. I have just received information from CILIP that the UK membership is 382 and membership in Scotland 35, a good start, I think. Ian Originally added by Ian McCracken

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Hello everyone

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Hi everyone, My name is Marion Kelt and I’m the Senior Librarian for Information Literacy and Digital Development at Glasgow Caledonian University. The job title is a bit of a giveaway to tell you that I’m also interested in information literacy and how it can be used to support students at any point in their

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Introducing myself

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Firstly I commend myself on the original title of this post, I really couldn’t think of anything better. My name is Ruth Gould and I am the Team Librarian for the Central Children’s Library in Aberdeen. My work focusses on working with young people up to 16. I have been interested in Information Literacy since

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Welsh Information Literacy Project

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On Monday 28th January I attended a meeting of the Welsh Information Literacy Project at a college in Rhos on Sea in North Wales. The Project is now in its third year and plans to seek funding from Cymal, the body in Wales which funds LIS R&D, for a fourth year. There were short presentations

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Introducing myself

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Hello everyone. I am John Crawford and I am the former director of the Scottish Information Literacy Project which had something to do with the setting up of this online community of practice. Apologies for the delay in contributing but I am currently busy finalising text for the book. I am pleased to see that

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profile-Ian McCracken

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Hi everyone First of all, thanks to all concerned in setting up everything. My involvement in Information Literacy goes back more years than I like to remember. While I worked in Govan High School, Glasgow, I developed a lot of ways of addressing information literacy issues and raised concerns about some assumptions that were being

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