Developing Digital Literacy Skills A webinar with Iain Baird, Academic Librarian at Teesside University Thursday, 20th November 2014, 5:00-6:00 pm Free! Places limited to 25 On 20th November, ARLG North-East is sponsoring a free webinar hosted by Iain, in which he will share his experiences of leading a change management project to develop CPD materials […]
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The ESRC (Economic & Social Research Council) is running a series of seminars about Information Sharing in Policy and Practice: What needs to be shared (and not shared) when we share information? The first seminar, Information Sharing and the Integration of Health and Social Care, is taking place in Newcastle on 25th November.
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The CILIP Information Literacy Group is to provide a free training event for the sharing of good information and digital literacy practice for librarians and information professionals working in school and Further Education settings. Event: Active IL in the classroom: Info Lit workshop and TeachMeet for schools and FE Where: Library of Birmingham When: Monday,
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The Workshop for Instruction in Library Use (WILU) Program Committee is pleased to invite proposals to be considered at WILU 2015, June 15-17, to be held at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. The theme for WILU 2015 is Sea Change: Transforming Learning. We invite proposals that are inspired in various ways by the
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The CILIP Information Literacy Group is sponsoring a free one-day event on developing a blended learning skills programme. The event will be run by Jennie Blake and Jade Kelsall from the University of Manchester Library, home of the award-winning My Learning Essentials programme launched in September 2013. Workshop: Developing a Blended Learning Skills Programme Venue:
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We have launched a new webpage on information literacy in the Further Education (FE) sector. Written by the IL Group committee member for FE, Nicola Scott, the page gives an overview of the sector’s needs for information literacy and contains a sample strategy for an FE specific information literacy curriculum, as well as a piece
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InformAll have recently published a report on information literacy at the interface between Higher Education and employment, and an annotated bibliography on IL in the context of employment. InformAll (formerly RIDLs) is a membership organisation, managed by the Research Information Network. Its aim is to provide a collaborative, multi-agency focus for promoting the relevance, importance and benefits of
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The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) has launched the Blogger Challenge, a competition giving you the opportunity to talk about important library, knowledge and information issues. Can you bring your knowledge and experience to bear on one of the big topics of the day and offer a new perspective? Who can enter?
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Pioneering project receives funding to tackle digital exclusion in the North East The ‘Go Digital Newcastle: Connecting Our City’ project will work with government, local charities and community groups to allow digitally isolated residents to access online services and gain digital literacy skills. The CILIP Information Literacy Group is giving £6,000 to fund a pioneering scheme
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‘Web Science: How the Web is Changing the World’ starts on the 6th October 2014 through the FutureLearn platform. The Web has changed the World since its invention by Tim Berners-Lee 25 years ago. From education to the economy, everything has been changed by the digital revolution. As a result, the relationship we have with information
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