Apologies for cross posting
Dear all
Chris Milne at Abertay and I have just presented a petition to the
Scottish Parliament on the subject of information literacy. It calls
upon the Scottish Parliament 'to urge the Scottish Executive to ensure
that that national school curriculum recognises the importance of
information literacy as a key lifelong learning skill.' The supporting
document explains this and suggests ways forward. There are two stages
in petitioning the Scottish parliament.
1. An electronic petition which aims to collect signatures in
support of the petition
2. A petition to the Public Petitions Committee of the Scottish
Parliament
Obviously the second stage will carry much more weight if the e-petition
attracts a lot of signatures and I would urge list members to add their
names which they can do by going to the under noted URL. My MSP (Member
of the Scottish Parliament) Ken Mackintosh has been very supportive in
preparing the petition and is going to ask a question in the Scottish
Parliament in support of the petition so we should be able to generate
quite a lot of interest. The petition will be up on the web until
Friday 16th December. The Petitions Committee meets on 21st December and
will consider the petition then.
Although the Public Petitions Committee is a Scottish institution it
very much welcomes support from all over the world so contributions are
welcome from south of the Tweed/ Solway and beyond.
http://epetitions.scottish.parliament.uk/view_petition.asp?PetitionID=76
<http://epetitions.scottish.parliament.uk/view_petition.asp?PetitionID=7
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Best wishes
Dr. John Crawford,
Library Research Officer,
Glasgow Caledonian University,
Room 302, (3rd floor)
6 Rose Street,
Glasgow,
G3 6RB
Tel: 0141-273-1248
Email [log in to unmask] ac.uk
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