RSS

Information Literacy Skills Project

Director: Crawford, John

Description: The project has therefore expanded to include the following: -Advocacy on behalf of information literacy for education and wider community -Working with information literacy champions both UK and worldwide -Researching and promoting information literacy in the workplace -Identifying and working with partners, both in education and the wider community -Researching the role of information literacy in continuing professional development to develop an information literacy framework, with cross-sector partners linking primary, secondary and tertiary education to lifelong learning including workplace and adult literacies agendas.

Subjects: understanding and development of information literacy , role and importance of information literacy

Objective: This research focused attention on the need for an information literacy strategy which links secondary and tertiary education and encourages the secondary and tertiary sectors to work together.

Language(s): en

Time length to use it: 45 min.

Open to international use: Yes

Geographical scope: International

Audience: Library IL facilitators

Address: Cowcaddens Road Glasgow G4 0BA Scotland, UK

E-mail: J.Crawford@gcal.ac.uk

Telephone: 0141 273 1248