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Guest post: Why we need critical digital literacy to participate in democracy

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Gianfranco Polizzi is a PhD researcher in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In addition, besides finishing his PhD, he is working as a Research Associate in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia, working on a project on digital […]

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Guest post: recent articles on information literacy research and practice

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Dr Alison Hicks, Lecturer in Library and Information Science at UCL, has written a guest post highlighting some recent articles in the field of information literacy research and practice. One of the greatest privileges of moving into a university lecturer position, alongside working with fabulous students, has been the opportunity (and requirement!) to keep up to

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Library and Information Research Journal: Special issue on strategic and policy making issues in information literacy

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The Library and Information Research Journal has recently published a special issue on strategic and policy making issues in information literacy. Papers include topics on information literacy and dyslexia and information literacy and political participation. See the table of contents and links to to the full-text of papers at http://www.lirgjournal.org.uk/lir/ojs/index.php/lir 

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Information Literacy in the Workplace

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The latest issue of GKIM Matters, the joint journal from CILIP’s Government Information Group and the Network of Government Library and Information Specialists, features an article by Stéphane Goldstein on the topic of “Information Literacy in the Workplace”. The article considers what information literacy (IL) signifies in the workplace, and highlights the key findings of a significant

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Call for papers: Special issue on Information Literacy: Library and Information Research

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The Library and Information Research journal has put out a call for papers for a special issue of this journal focussing on strategic and policy making issues in information literacy, both in the UK and worldwide. It is due for publication in September – October 2016.  Please see the further details below.   CALL FOR

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Journal of Information Technology Education – new issue has an article on IL

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  The Journal of Information Technology Education has an article on information literacy. Stagg, A.; Lane, M.  (2010) Using Clickers to Support Information Literacy Skills Development and Instruction in First-Year Business Students.  The Journal of Information Technology Education. Vol. 9,  pp. 197-215

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Science and Technology Libraries – new issue has articles on IL

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The Science and Technology Libraries journal, VOL 29 NUMBER 4 (2010) has two articles on information literacy.  They are: Science Education and Information Literacy: A Grass-Roots Effort to Support Science Literacy in Schools by Griffin, K.; Ramachandran, H.  pp. 325-349 The Physics of Designing an Integrated Physics Information Literacy Program by Gamsby, M.  pp. 350-361

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