Wednesday, October 9, 2013 at 6:20PM Looking forward to CILIPS Autumn Gathering 2013: Inspiration and Education tomorrow (10th October) in Edinburgh at the John McIntyre Conference Centre The themes for this year are school libraries, digital and information literacies and professional development.
Friday, August 9, 2013 at 2:35PM Email out from the CILIP in Scotland Team to say that booking is now open for this year's CILIP Autumn Gathering at the John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh. It looks like a great programme / line up
This year is all about Education and Inspiration and the programme contains three main strands:
The keynote speakers reflect this diversity as we have Barbara Band (CILIP Vice President), Liz McGettigan (Head of Edinburgh Libraries) and Simon Finch (Northern Grid).
Other sessions offer a choice for delegates and include a debate on e-books, a session on using social media effectively, school library best practice 'shout-outs', a case study of CPD 23, some best practice examples of information literacy projects, tips on how to deliver an elevator pitch, discussion about the new CILIP Professional Knowledge and Skills Base and school library research.
The early bird price for CILIPS members is only £55 so book now
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Friday, July 26, 2013 at 11:56AM 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. In that way, information literacy is very similar to complex reasoning skills. And some would argue that they are in fact the same.
If you think about it, every discipline requires a certain set of reasoning skills. On a broad level, these skills fall under the umbrella of inductive and deductive reasoning. But under that umbrella, you’ll find an enormous subset of reasoning skills. There’s social reasoning, legal reasoning, conditional reasoning, statistical reasoning, creative reasoning, academic reasoning, critical reasoning, historical reasoning, et al… And when you delve into the details of each reasoning skill, what do you find? Something that resembles information literacy. In other words, information literacy is a multifaceted reasoning skill. There are many shades of information literacy ..."
Donna provides as an example a historical reasoning model which she suggests could easily serve as a model for information literacy. I would have thought it is more of a faceted part of a model.
I have always viewed information literacy as multifaceted operating in different information environemnts / landscapes and certainly part of problem solving and critical thinking - the later of which Donna talks about in response to a question / comment on her posting.
Friday, July 26, 2013 at 9:47AM I'm a member of the LinkedIn CILIP IL Group and noticed the following request from Elizabeth Hutchinson, Schools' Library Liaison Officer at Schools' Library Service, Guernsey
"It looks like we are changing from GCSE's and A'levels to the Scottish system of highers. Are there any librarians out there that have embedded info literacy whilst using the Scottish system?"
I contacted Elizabeth and offered to put her request to the Community of Practice. So it is over to you. I'm sure there school librarians out there that can help Elizabeth.
IL and Highers in Schools Monday, June 24, 2013 at 12:01PM 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 age group of secondary school pupils and adult learners. We plan to look at maps from rural and urban areas and focus on how to read a map, picking out landmarks and reading maps in a historical context. We hope that this resource will be ready to go live at the end of September. I was at the Information Literacy Community of Practice meeting last week and had the opportunity to say a few words about this project. I received useful suggestions which I will feedback at our planning meetings. So thanks to all for this.
We are also looking at doing CPD sessions for teachers and school librarians around Scotland based on the 'Project Blaster' tool and are looking for suitable venues for this type of session, possibly public libraries. If you think you might be able to host one of these sessions, please could you contact me at v.denholm@nls.uk.
Looking forward to hearing from you!