Wednesday
Apr072010
Scottish Information Literacy Project finishes at Glasgow Caledonian University
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 8:40AM
The Scottish Information Literacy Project comes to a close at Glasgow Caledonian University after five very successful years, having worked in partnership with cross sector partners in secondary and tertiary education, the world of work and the wider community, relevant non governmental agencies such as Learning and Teaching Scotland, the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework, Scottish Qualifications Authority, Skills Development Scotland, Ofcom Scotland and professional bodies.
During this time the project successfully gained funding to work on research and development projects including the creation and development of a National Information Literacy Framework (Scotland). The project was asked to speak on many occasions at conferences, meetings and seminars plus successfully organised and ran three open meetings for the project partners and interested parties bring together cross sector organisations.
Discussions are taking place to keep the project blog and website at the university as they are a record of the projects work plus a valuable resource and move the National Information Literacy Framework (Scotland) to a new home so that the framework can continue to develop.
We would like to thank the project partners, interested parties and colleagues at Glasgow Caledonian University who generously gave their time, expertise and support to the project in their efforts to gain funding and then deliver the objectives.
Whilst the project at Glasgow Caledonian University has come to an end our involvement in information literacy has not. We are currently co-writing a book chapter on information literacy in the workplace and plan to co-author a book based on the project work and experience. There are also articles to write about the project work and we will continue to contribute to the Scottish Government Community of Practice Creating an information literate Scotland. For anyone interested in joining the CoP email Lesley.Thomson@scotland.gsi.gov.uk or Jenny.Foreman@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
A project email account has been set up at scotinfolit@googlemail.com if anyone wishes to contact us.
Christine Irving & John Crawford
April 2010
During this time the project successfully gained funding to work on research and development projects including the creation and development of a National Information Literacy Framework (Scotland). The project was asked to speak on many occasions at conferences, meetings and seminars plus successfully organised and ran three open meetings for the project partners and interested parties bring together cross sector organisations.
Discussions are taking place to keep the project blog and website at the university as they are a record of the projects work plus a valuable resource and move the National Information Literacy Framework (Scotland) to a new home so that the framework can continue to develop.
We would like to thank the project partners, interested parties and colleagues at Glasgow Caledonian University who generously gave their time, expertise and support to the project in their efforts to gain funding and then deliver the objectives.
Whilst the project at Glasgow Caledonian University has come to an end our involvement in information literacy has not. We are currently co-writing a book chapter on information literacy in the workplace and plan to co-author a book based on the project work and experience. There are also articles to write about the project work and we will continue to contribute to the Scottish Government Community of Practice Creating an information literate Scotland. For anyone interested in joining the CoP email Lesley.Thomson@scotland.gsi.gov.uk or Jenny.Foreman@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
A project email account has been set up at scotinfolit@googlemail.com if anyone wishes to contact us.
Christine Irving & John Crawford
April 2010
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