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Tuesday
Jun182013

RSE digital participation enquiry

The Royal Society of Edinburgh is launching an enquiry on digital participation in Scotland and submissions from individuals and organisations are welcome.  See below. Martyn Wade  is on the  Committee which is good news.

It does seem to me that looking at the various headings the two areas where we can contribute most are training and employability and skills development.  Skills development to promote the Scottish economy always goes down well and I think we could promote this as an information skills training need and how it might be addressed.  The move to an information society is widely acknowledged as the base from which an information literate society should be promoted.

 I think there is scope for input from most library sectors with particular sectors contributing more under some specific headings. 7 –Risk is an obvious are for school librarians for example.

public librarians are already doing valuable work but there is probably a need for a more co-ordinated approach to training with a willingness to provide targeted and probably certificated training on a nationwide basis.

HE probably presents fewest problems but it would still be useful to point to the good work that HE librarians do in preparing students for employment. 

I think the most significant area to address, however, is the workplace and in particular small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) which constitute the bulk of the UK economy. The research which has been done in this area suggests that IL skills in SMEs is poor and is detrimental to economic development.  This matter does not receive systematic attention anywhere in the UK and to highlight and suggest the need for action could be useful and also innovative.  However what training is needed and who should provide it are major issues. Training for SME staffs needs to be highly targeted and there is also evidence that SMEs are unsure of their own training needs and it is undoubtedly the case that many SME employees will be unaware of what information literacy activity is even if they are engaging in it.

All these points, of course, are predicated on the assumption that Scottish librarian are willing to engage much more with education and training and be suitably trained themselves to undertake such work.

 

Website and further information: http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/1058_SpreadingtheBenefitsofDigitalParticipation.html

Inquiry Blog:   http://engagingdigitalscotland.wordpress.com/

Inquiry online submission form: http://bit.ly/diginquiry

 

 John

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28th June 2013 is the deadline for submissions to the Royal Society of Edinburgh enquiry on digital participation in Scotland. it is important that we all submit and highlight information literacy and challenge the assumptions that everyone has the skills to use digital technology and that the only source of information is available digitally.

June 20, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterChristine Irving

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