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Jorum launches Information and Digital Literacy Skills Collection

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Jorum, the established home of free open educational resources produced by the UK Further and Higher Education community, has launched its long-awaited Information and Digital Literacy Skills Collection. This follows the successful creation earlier this year of a collection for Research Data Management (RDM) resources, as a result of Jorum’s involvement in the Jisc-funded DaMSSI-ABC […]

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RIDLs criteria on describing, reviewing and evaluating IL interventions

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The Research Information and Digital Literacies Coalition (RIDLs) has formulated a set of criteria to help librarians in higher education describe, review and evaluate their training and development interventions and resources intended for researchers, but also for students and teaching staff – see https://www.researchinfonet.org/info-literacy/ for details. These criteria relate to all interventions aimed at developing

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UK IL models and the ACRL IL competency standards

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Want an update on what is happening in the UK in relation to IL models?  Then read Justine Martin’s report which highlights four UK models of Information Literacy and compares them with the ACRL’s Information Literacy Competency Standards.  Martin, J. L. (2013) “Learning from Recent British Information Literacy Models: A Report to ACRL’s Information Literacy

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JIL: new issue now available

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The latest issue of the Journal of Information Literacy (the journal of the CILIP CSG Information Literacy group) has just been published! The contents of the Journal of Information Literacy vol 6(1) include: Articles The experiences of Chinese PhD students in Australia: Encountering information literacy challenges by Jinghe Han Business information literacy teaching at different

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Three spheres of Information Literacy by Geoff Walton

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I introduced the controversial ‘Three spheres of information literacy’ theory at LILAC in 2010 and gave my own interpretation of their relative importance as observed from my research. This year at LILAC I asked delegates who attended my talk (20) to note how they viewed the three spheres see http://www.flickr.com/photos/humpydemon/ for pics. I then asked lis-infoliteracy

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SCONUL Seven Pillars of Information Literacy – new lens now available

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On behalf of SCONUL, Alsion McKenzie and Helen Howard have produced two new lens to the SCONUL Seven Pillars of Information Literacy.  They are available from: The SCONUL Seven Pillars of Information Literacy through a Digital Literacy lens, updated January 2012 The SCONUL Seven Pillars of Information Literacy through an Open Content lens, 2011

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