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The Finnish approach to teaching IL and the fight against fake news
There is an excellent article in The Guardian by Jon Henley, published 29th January 2020. It explores how Finland decided to tackle the problem of misinformation, disinformation and malinformation (terms that are preferred over “fake news”). Have a wee look...
Informed societies: why information literacy matters for citizenship, participation and democracy edited by Stéphane Goldstein
Hello, You might be interested in the recently-published book edited by Stéphane Goldstein on Informed societies: why information literacy matters for citizenship, participation and democracy. There are excellent chapters written by three members of the Information Literacy Community of Practice...
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...
Announcing the GIG Award Winners 2019
Government Information Group (GIG) The Awards keep coming in for Fiona Laing who is the winner of the GIG Life-time Achievement Award for 2019. Fiona was also recently named the Scottish Library & Information Professional of the Year for 2019....
Erasmus+ study visit to Bergen: public libraries and their roles and work in inclusion and learning
In May this year, I was really pleased to join an Erasmus+ study visit to Bergen, Norway. It was organised by the Norwegian government agency, Diku, with the aim of exploring “the roles and work of public libraries relating to...
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...
SLIC INFORMATION LITERACY TOOL KIT and SCHOOLS
A really interesting and positive blog post from Amanda Joykin about her project, developing an IL Toolkit. Read more about it below: https://scottishlibraries.org/about-us/news/planning-an-information-toolkit/ It’s been four months since I started work on developing the Information Literacy Toolkit and a good...
Maddie is Online
Dr Konstantina (Dina) Martzoukou is an academic at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland, researching information and digital literacy. She has been working on a cartoon video series for school children (9-12 years old) to illustrate the dangers of online...
ILG Funded Project: Public library digital participation programmes – the impact on employability
Work IT was shortlisted for The Edge conference Digital Award 2019! Work IT is a flexible programme of digital support for employability offered by libraries in libraries, established in response to increased demand for job-related IT assistance. Staff were being...
CILIPS Library and Information Professional of the Year 2019
Congratulations to Fiona Laing who is the the winner of Library and Information Professional of the Year 2019 Fiona (pictured with Michelle Elkington of sponsors Bolinda Digital), is the Official Publications Curator in Collections and Research, National Library of Scotland. The award was presented...