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Developing Digital Literacies for a Digital World – ALISS agm speaker papers now available
Catching up on some email alerts that I thought would be of interest to the CoP and articles that I need to add to my to read pile. ALISS AGM 2014: Developing Digital Literacies for a Digital World papers now...
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...
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...
KAREN GARNETT – CAMPUS LIBRARIAN FIRST BLOG
Having recently attended my first meeting of the Scottish Information Literacy – Community of Practice, I was asked to prepare a short post for the blog. I currently work for a land-based HEI as a campus librarian; but also have...
Jamie McIntyre – FE Liaison Librarian first blog
As a new member of the Community of Practice, Christine invited me to share my reasons for joining the group and any IL activities I’m involved in. I work at Scottish Borders Campus in Galahsiels which is a shared Campus...
Digital Participation Framework
Further to John’s blog,, I recently (Wednesday 7th May) sent the e-mail below to the central enquiries unit of the Scottish Government http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Contacts Can I please encourage others to place similar enquiries: I am most concerned that the success we have...
Digital Participation Framework
The Scottish Government has just launched a new strategy outlining how digital technology can be used to tackle inequalities and benefit communities across the country The National Digital Participation Framework for Local Action maps out how helping people to get...
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...
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...
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...