Catch up from John Crawford
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 9:50PM Dear All,
I am very much aware that I have been very uncommunicative lately but I have benn busy with other things, not ot mention major IT problems which are now hopefully sorted out. Not that there is nothing to report.
Lauren Smith, a PhD researcher at Strathclyde University has been awarded a grant by the Information Literacy Group (See press release below and CILIP news item 'Groundbreaking research in schools and workplace will marry information competenncies with citizenship and employability') and she will be working with the Community of Practice among others.
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Morag Higgison, John Crawford, Lauren Smith at the Il Symposium 2015
Learning, lending, liberty? Can school libraries be engines for youth citizenship?
The first research project, Learning, lending, liberty? Can school libraries be engines for youth citizenship? will explore the role of school libraries in the wider school environment including citizenship education. The project will identify how Scottish school libraries support young people’s political participation in two major political events – the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 and the UK General Election 2015. The project will also explore the information and information literacy (IL) needs of young people outside the school environment and identify how IL provision is vital in helping them become informed and meaningful participants in politics. Principle Investigator Lauren Smith (the University of Strathclyde) will work in partnership with YoungScot, a young people’s information charity; the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC); The Right Information, Scotland’s information literacy community of practice and CILIPS.
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IL Symposium, 13/02/2015The conference on February 13th at Atlantic Quay in Glasgow seems to have been a success, judging by informal feedback. One of its main aims was to bring together people from a range of sectors so that they could understand each other’s problems and understand how IL can help to solve them. Bill Johnston, Ian McCracken and I are meeting with SLIC staff next Monday to review feedback and consider what to do next.
I submitted a proposal to speak at this year’s CILIP conference in Liverpool at the beginning of July and it has been accepted http://cilipconference2015.org.uk/programme/ . My topic will be: An information literacy policy for a small state? No prizes for guessing what the small state is.
Rather further down the line is ECIL 2015 http://ecil2015.ilconf.org/ which will take place at Tallin University, Tallin, Estonia from 19th to 22nd October. Scots have presented at the two previous conferences and it would be good if there were Scottish presentations again this year, a co-ordinated panel perhaps.
Rather more locally I hope to attend the Welsh Information Literacy Project conference www.library.wales.org/informationliteracy . It is taking place in Wrexham on 26th March.
Best wishes
John Crawford