PILOT shortlisted as example of good practice

PILOT, GCU's online training package for postgraduate, port doctoral and staff researchers, has been added to the list of fifteen good practice resources for information literacy training provision in UK higher education institutions. This list is part of the RILADS final report, May 2013 produced by of the Research Information and Digital Literacies Coalition (RIDLs), the Research Information Network (RIN) and Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL). The full report and list is available at http://rilads.wordpress.com/

 PILOT is available on Jorum and on our opan access web site at http://www.gcu.ac.uk/library/PILOT/. If you would like to chat using PILOT as an open educational resource, contact Marion Kelt (m.kelt@gcu.ac.uk) in the library

SMILE - a free information literacy resource

Hi again,

Just a note about SMILE. SMILE is an online information literacy and employability skills training package. It is freely available under a creative commons license for use and modification. It is made up of web pages and multimedia content which can be easily edited using any HTML editor.

I've just put a new edition up on JORUM - it is called SMILE 3.0 and you can find it here 

http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/17574

If you don't have access to JORUM, get in touch with me directly and I can send you a version as a zip file or stick it on a pen drive for you.

The new edition has loads of extra content which was created after talking to our lecturers, so you are sure to find something useful there!

It is aimed at undergraduate students, but a lot of the content is pretty generic and could be used in a school, FE or public library situation.

An older version is available on our open access site at http://www.gcu.ac.uk/library/SMILE/Unit_1_vers3/start.html

I have just sent in the new version to our IT team, so I hope that it will be available soon.

Happy to talk further about SMILE, feel free to contact me at m.kelt@gcu.ac.uk

Hello everyone

Hi everyone,

My name is Marion Kelt and I'm the Senior Librarian for Information Literacy and Digital Development at Glasgow Caledonian University. The job title is a bit of a giveaway to tell you that I'm also interested in information literacy and how it can be used to support students at any point in their lifelong learning journey.

Over the years I have worked in schools, FE and even in consultancy, so I have a well rounded view of the uses of information literacy.

At present I'm working on SMILE, a free information literacy and employability skills package which you can download and edit for your own needs. I'm also working on a companion package called PILOT.

Recently I joined the coPILOT (no relation!) committee which aims to promote the use of open educational resources in information literacy training. Have a look at the post that I put up if you are interested in knowing more.

Hoping to hear more from you all soon!

CoPILOT (Community of Practice for Information Literacy Online Teaching)

Hi everyone,

I just want to pass on this message to you as I thought you may be interested. Please pass it on to anyone else who may find it useful:

We thought that some of you would be interested to know that a new sub-group of the CILIP Information Literacy Group called CoPILOT (Community of Practice for Information Literacy Online Teaching) has been formed. The sub-group's aim is to support and encourage the development and sharing of information literacy teaching materials as open educational resources, primarily within the UK.

The Group's initial activities will be to establish an online space for the Community of Practice and to organise a training event on Creative Commons for those who deliver IL teaching. The remit and membership of the Group is attached if you'd like to find out more about us.

We have also started work on a wiki at http://iloer.pbworks.com. If you are interested in contributing to the wiki, please contact Eleni Zazani (e.zazani@bbk.ac.uk) and Ella Mitchell (e.mitchell@UEL.AC.UK).

If you'd like to keep up with the work of the group and developments in this area, we have set up a JISCMail list - IL-OERS@jiscmail.ac.uk. You can also follow us on Twitter: @CoPILOT2013 if you wish to join the IL-OERS mailing list please follow this link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=IL-OERS and click on Subscribe.  You will be asked to register and then you will be able to join the list.

I'll keep you posted on any new developments, as I'm on the committee!

Marion Kelt