Dear all and with apologies for cross posting and for reminding those
who have already signed
Chris Milne at the University of Abertay in Dundee and I presented a
petition to the Scottish Parliament on the subject of information
literacy at the end of October. It calls upon the Scottish Parliament
'to urge the Scottish Executive to ensure that the 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. So far 491 people have signed which has
greatly exceeded our expectations and we are aiming for about 600. The
petition has attracted the support of CILIP's Lifelong Learning Panel
and the council of CILIP Scotland. If you have not already signed 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 has
already asked a question in the Scottish Parliament in support of the
petition, so the issue has now been flagged up. 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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