CILIPS East Branch: Information Literacy Part One

John speaking at CILIPS East Branch IL eventThanks to CILIPS East Branch for the invitation to speak on Thursday afternoon at the National Library of Scotland. The session was well attended and the presentations went well. John kicked off the session with his presentation An information literacy policy for Scotland?

I followed with a presentation about the Community of Practice (CoP) - it was meant to be an online demo but unfortunately the Internet comection was not available. Fortunately I had prepared a presentation with some screen shots as a back up. The screen shots didn't come out very clear when they were blown up on the screen (note to self to remember this for future presentations). 

Sean McNamara, CILIPS Policy & Digital Officer, CILIPS then talked about CILIP, CILIPS and the Information Literate Professional concluding with a panel discussion. The panel discussion generated some discussion about teachers and their information literacy skills/competences  and getting IL as part of teacher training. This has always been a hard nut to crack - but there are people out there trying to work on this including Audrey Sutton (North Ayrshire Council).   

Thanks to everyone that attended it was good to see some familiar faces and to meet some new ones including the CoP 100th member Fiona Soutar. Fiona is currently a Community Librarian at Perth and Kinross Council who is moving to a new role as Information Librarian. Fiona was with her colleague Lesley Paul. Fiona and Lesley will job share this new role. Look out for blog posts from Fiona about the work they are doing.

Thanks to Julie Sutherland for the photos and everyone who following the meeting:

• joined the Community of Practice we now have 107 members
  
• are now following me on Twitter
  
• are spreading the word.
  

It is much appreciated.

Christine