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Response to the interim report ‘Digital Skills for Tomorrow’s World’

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The UK Digital Skills Taskforce launched its interim report ‘Digital Skills for Tomorrow’s World’ in July 2014. The following response has been written by Jane Secker, from the CILIP Information Literacy Group, and Stéphane Goldstein from InformAll. We welcome the publication of this report that highlights the need to equip people with the abilities to […]

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InformAll publish report on IL and employment

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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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First Information Literacy Group research bursary awarded

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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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Represent the Public Sector on the IL Group Committee!

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The CILIP Information Literacy Group Committee is looking to recruit a Sector Representative for Public Libraries, to work alongside our other Sector Reps to represent the needs of librarians working in public libraries. More information about the IL Group and its activities is available from its CILIP webpages. If you would like to be considered for the

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New SCONUL literature review on information literacy and employability

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Megan Wiley, University of Bristol, has produced on behalf of the SCONUL Strategy Group on User Experience and Success, some documents  new information in the form of a literature review, analysing the contribution of information literacy and libraries to the development of graduate employability skills. The full literature review is available on the SCONUL website at

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New CILIP literature review on workplace information literacy

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Dr. Charles Inskip has collated both theoretical and practice-based literature from a variety of workplaces to provide an overview of the main issues around workplace information literacy. Read Dr. Inskip’s blog post and full literature review on the CILIP website at http://www.cilip.org.uk/cilip/news/information-literacy-life-not-just-good-degree

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Paris Declaration on Media and Information Literacy in the Digital Era

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Back in May, the first European Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Forum was held in Paris, at the Headquarters of UNESCO. At this Forum, the Paris Declaration on MIL was adopted. Please visit UNESCO’s website for more information. Participants have until Thursday 10th July to comment on the Declaration. After this date, it will become

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