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Lifelong Learning: how music, language and art make you smarter
Thanks to Lisa Jenkins for contacting me about graphics she helped create about the benefits of lifelong learning through music and language learning. I like the look of the graphics as they get the message over well and I also...
Earliest texts to mention the term ‘information literacy’
Thanks to Drew Whitworth, University of Manchester’s LIS-INFOLITERACY@jiscmail.ac.uk mailing Lee G Burchinal’s “The Communications Revolution” (1976): new digitised copy of text with commentary To facilitate further scholarship into the origins of ‘information literacy’ — as an idea and a practical...
50 Shades of Information Literacy – viewing information literacy as a multifaceted reasoning skill
Interesting blog posting titled ’50 Shades of Information Literacy” by Donna Witek “Information literacy can be found hidden in every corner of every discipline out there. It’s not always called information literacy and it does not always look the same....
Information Literacy Policies
There seems to be a growing interest in Information literacy policies. In the last couple of months I have received a couple of emails on the subject which I thought the Community of Practice might be interested in. The first...
Response to the RSE Enquiry into Digital Participation
I have read the responses already posted below and realise my response is very similar but here is my reponse anyway: 1. What do you think are the current benefits of digital participation and using the internet? There are many...
Evidence to the Royal Society of Edinburgh for their enquiry into digital participation
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...
Update from NLS
Dear all, Our ‘Project Blaster’ information literacy resource has been up and running since March and we are now at the planning stage for our next information literacy module which will be based on maps and aimed at the older...
Mistakes multiplying over the internet
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...
New guidelines for citing moving image and sound sources
The British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC) has drawn up and issued new guidelines for citing moving image and sound sources including: film television programmes radio programmes audio recordings DVD extras including interviews and commentaries clips trailers adverts idents...
Digital inclusion health hubs launched in England
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...