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Aberdeenshire Information Literacy and Learning Librarian wins CILIP President’s Information Literacy Challenge
Congratulations to winner Jacqueline Geekie Information Literacy and Learning Librarian at Aberdeenshire Council. Jacqueline and colleague Jan Murdoch – a network librarian filmed a group of school pupils on a visit to Ellon Library to research a project on the...
Health literacy: let’s think again
Catching up on my emails after being away and came across this interesting article ‘Health literacy: let’s think again’ by Graham Kramer a GP and National Clinical Lead Self Management and Health Literacy, Scottish Government. He starts by saying that...
Scottish Government awards SLIC Digital Participation funding
Great news of SLIC’s Digital Funding – see announcment below. Hopefully information literacy will play a key role in any of the digital initiatives. “The Scottish Government has awarded the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) additional funding to support...
Gin and tonic: making Boolean fun
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...
CILIPS IL Group membership
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...
Information Literacy Practitioner of the Year Award – 2013
Congratualtions to Information Literacy Practitioner of the Year Award – 2013 winner Kim McGowan “Kim was recognised for an impressive body of work which has raised the profile of IL at University of Cumbria. The judges praised her provision of...
Two information literacy resources
Notification from Mark Hepworth re two publications that he thinks should be useful for people who do information literacy training. 1. The first is a book I published in collaboration with Geoff Walton. This is called Teaching Information Literacy for...
A collection of Information Literacy (IL) Resources from around the world is now available on UNESCO’s website
A collection of Information Literacy (IL) Resources from around the world is now available on UNESCO’s website in e-Pub and PDF formats. The publication titled “Overview of Information Literacy Resource Worldwide” is divided into 42 language lists and includes selected...
Minutes of meeting of January 30th 2013 and next meeting
Dear all, At Christine’s suggestion I have posted the minutes on the discussion board which I compiled with a little help from Christine and Jenny. We will need to plan the next meeting well in advance probably second half of...
SMILE – a free information literacy resource
Hi again, Just a note about SMILE. SMILE is an online information literacy and employability skills training package. It is freely available under a creative commons license for use and modification. It is made up of web pages and multimedia...