Information literacy at the Scottish Parliament (2)
Thursday, September 5, 2013 at 9:20PM As you will have gathered from Ian’s post we both attended the Holyrood Cross Party Group on Digital Participation on the evening of Wednesday 4th September to give presentations.
My presentation was Information skills for a 21st century Scotland: an online information literacy community of practice.
I was a bit unsure as to how we would be received as the Group has historically been mainly concerned with access and infrastructure issues and less concerned with usage and training issues. However we were well received and the questions were, for the most part, helpful and supportive especially from Fiona McLeod MSP and SLIC chair. I also was pleased by the chair’s (Willie Coffey MSP) interest and enthusiasm. I spoke mainly about the work of the Community of Practice and also explained a few basic information literacy issues with the help of the CILIP definition. Many thanks to Veronica and Abi for supplying slides to give examples of our work which also brightened up the PPT considerably. During the discussion Fiona had a number of suggestions:
- Approach the Public Libraries Quality Improvement Fund to look at such issues as school/public library links
- Raise information literacy at a public librarians’ heads of service meeting
- We also discussed the issue of IL skills training for public librarians
I had a chat with Fiona afterwards and brought here up to date with our work in slightly more detail. I feel we made quite a step forward in raising awareness of information literacy by promoting the issue outside the information world and among politicians.
Reader Comments (2)
That's great news. Well done.
This is all very promising! I agree with Christine what great news...