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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...
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...
RGU research on the impact of school libraries on learning
Hi everyone and Happy New Year Can I please draw members’ attention to this report by Professor Dorothy Williams which has a number of references to information literacy in schools http://www.scottishlibraries.org/storage/sectors/schools/SLIC_RGU_Impact_of_School_Libraries_2013.pdf Originally added by Ian McCracken
Cross Party Group on Digital Participation meeting 10.12.13 and a Happy New Year
I attended the Cross Party Group on Digital Participation meeting at Holyrood with Jenny Foreman on Tuesday 10th December. Sorry about the delay in posting but I was overcome by festive season sloth and I am only just recovering. The...
Digital Literacy article
The latest CILIP update has a number of articles of relevance to the CoP. The one I found most interesting was “call for literacy to take centre stage” relating to the Chartered Institute for IT. The website format (at least...
Digital Native ~ Terminology Debate
After an interested meeting of the CoP in Edinburgh on Bonfire Night, I thought I’d share a link or two. Well, it was the day of Bonfire Night, we didn’t get together to forgo the fireworks! We discussed how the term...
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...
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...
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...
Information Sources for the European Union
I have recently changed job within Aberdeen City Libraries and now work for Europe Direct Information Centre – Aberdeen. My focus is now on providing an information service about the European Union that is relevant to the local population. We...