Online Harms - Media Literacy Survey - deadline Friday 17th January

Media Literacy Landscape Mapping Exercise 

The UK Government committed to developing an online media literacy strategy in the Online Harms White Paper, published in April 2019. As part of this the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport have appointed a consultancy, RSM UK, to undertake a comprehensive mapping exercise to identify what actions are already underway.

The consultancy has developed a framework to record and characterise the media literacy initiatives available to UK users and is in the process of populating this framework to help DCMS understand the nature of the initiatives and any gaps in provision.

If you represent an organisation that provides or funds any media literacy initiatives to users in the UK, it would be very helpful if you could complete this brief survey. 

The link below will take you to an online questionnaire, designed using SmartSurvey, that will ask some questions about the issues that you are trying to resolve, your target user groups, and delivery methods.

https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MediaLiteracy

The survey will ask you a few questions about your organisation as a whole. You will then have the chance to describe the individual media literacy initiatives that you provide.

The survey should take no more than 15-30 minutes depending upon the number of media literacy initiatives that you describe.

If you have any queries about how to complete the survey, please email matt.rooke@rsmuk.com and amy.hau@rsmuk.com. The survey will remain open until Friday 17 January and any queries will be responded to in time to complete the survey.

Many thanks

Jenny Foreman (Scottish Government Library)

Honorary Membership Awards from CILIP Scotland

CILIP Scotland Honorary Membership 2019:  Jenny Foreman, Head Librarian, Scottish Government Library and Information Service and Cleo Jones, Lifelong Learning Strategic Officer, City of Edinburgh Council, have been awarded Honorary Memberships for CILIP Scotland 2019 for their joint efforts in raising the awareness and importance of Information Literacy and the role it plays in every day society.   We all deal with vast amounts of information everyday as we go about our daily routines, sometimes being totally unaware we are doing so.  Through Jenny and Cleo and its members, the Information Literacy Community of Practice for Scotland, which Jenny and Cleo co-chair, aims to bring together those interested in Information Literacy - how we source information, why we must consider its importance and value, while taking care to evaluate and use what we source responsibly, all of which highlights the importance of teaching and promoting information literacy skills in education and lifelong learning.

Please do join the IL CoP if you're interested and come along to our biannual meetings. 

Email the Scottish Government Library sglibrary@gov.scot

The Right Information: information skills for the 21^st century

Thanks

Ian McCracken

Govan High School Archivist 

Modern Apprenticeships - Library & Information Sector Questionnaire

Hello

Our colleagues at CILIP recently undertook a process to approve new Apprenticeship standards for the library and information sector (https://www.cilip.org.uk/page/Apprenticeships).

You can view the Apprenticeship standard here: https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/library-information-archive-services-assistant/ 

As the processes and delivery model for Apprenticeships in Scotland are different we are currently assessing whether there is enough demand for us to undertake a similar piece of work here. To help us do this we would appreciate it if you could answer the following questions as honestly as possible. Please note that the answers you give will not be viewed as a commitment to offer apprenticeship positions and are just to give us a general idea of demand in Scotland. 

It would be hoped that should there be demand for a similar standard here then it would be pitched at a similar level (SCQF level 6/7) but this would be assessed.  

We would be grateful if you would complete the questionnaire so that we can assess whether there is enough demand for CILIPS to undertake a similar piece of work.

Thank you

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/97RGCFX

Sean McNamara 

Head of CILIP in Scotland

Twitter @CILIPScotland | Web: www.cilips.org.uk

Libraries Health & Wellbeing event (ARLGS) on 7th November 2019

In recent years there has been an increased focus on the role of mental health and wellbeing among students and staff in universities and colleges. As library workers we often play a direct though not well defined role here – while we are frequently at the front line our pastoral responsibilities are often unclear. It’s in this context that the Academic and Research Libraries Group Scotland (ARLGS) would like to warmly invite you to join us at a free event on the afternoon of Thursday the 7th of November. The aim of this event will be to share best practice in providing and addressing different aspects of wellbeing from a range of other information professionals from across the sector. You’ll hear from a variety of speakers about their experiences and innovations in teaching, resources, and service provision in academic and research libraries and beyond, with the opportunity to ask questions and participate in discussion.

Refreshments will be provided.

Places are limited, so please register at https://www.cilip.org.uk/event/ARLGSWellbeing before Wednesday 30th October to avoid disappointment.

We look forward to seeing you on Thursday the 7^th of November, 2019.

Laura Ennis on behalf of ARLGS Committee

Announcing the GIG Award Winners 2019

Government Information Group (GIG)

The Awards keep coming in for Fiona Laing who is the winner of the GIG Life-time Achievement Award for 2019. Fiona was also recently named the Scottish Library & Information Professional of the Year for 2019. Many congratulations Fiona on both of your very well-deserved awards. 

Fiona’s nomination for the GIG Life-time Achievement Award outlined her many achievements during a long career working with government information in the form of Official Publications, and specifically highlighted her outreach and training work. Fiona has worked tirelessly to promote Official Publications and ensure that they are as widely available and accessible as possible. In addition, she was commended for her work with SWOP (Scottish Working Forum on Official Publications) and CILIP, demonstrating the significant and highly-valued contribution Fiona has made to the wider profession in a number of different areas.

Also, another Information Literacy CoP member has received a GIG award. Margaret Gair (MOD Library) has been an integral part of this group achievement!

This year the Annual Award has been awarded to the GKIM Knowledge Management Task & Finish Group for their collaborative work on developing a Maturity Model to support implementation of the HMG Knowledge Principles.

The GIG Judging Panel were struck by how well a team, comprising 19 volunteers from a range of government depts and Agencies, had come together to work creatively and collaboratively to develop a robust and usable tool which will raise the profile and understanding of knowledge management in government departments and beyond. It was noted that all of the T&F Group had selflessly taken on this role in addition to their busy day jobs.

 Congratulations team on a great contribution to the GKIM profession and on winning the GIG 2019 Annual Award!

Website: https://www.cilip.org.uk/about/special-interest-groups/government-information-group

Email: info.gig@cilip.org.uk

Twitter: @gig_cilip