Going beyond the 'library': the current work of the Scottish Information Literacy Project

Authors

  • John Caskie Crawford
  • Christine Irving

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/lirg89

Keywords:

information literacy, skills development,

Abstract

Reviews briefly the origins of the Scottish Information Literacy Project from its origins in 2004 as a project solely devoted to developing a National Information Literacy Framework for Scotland to the present time. The project now encompasses workplace information literacy, the skills agenda, lifeong learning and media literacy. The article concentrates on current activity: the restructuring of the first draft of the Framework to make it a genuine lifelong learning document and the pursuit of the workplace agenda, following a successful research project. This now focuses strongly on having information literacy recognised as an essential workplace skill. Work is also being undertaken with public library partners to develop information literacy training in public libraries. The policy implications of the work are reviewed.

Author Biographies

John Caskie Crawford

Library Research Officer and Director, Scottish Information Literacy Project

Christine Irving

Project Officer, Scottish Information Literacy Project

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Published

2008-11-30

Issue

Vol. 32 No. 102 (2008)

Section

Reports

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