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Apologies for cross posting Dear all Chris Milne at Abertay 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 The electronic petition closes this Friday -16th December - and the number of signatures has greatly exceeded our expectations. A petition, on average, generates about 450 signatures and we now have 647. I am delighted to see so many names of people who are known to me either personally, or by reputation. Chris Milne, Christine Irving and I will be attending a meeting of the Public Petitions Committee on Wednesday 21st December to give a short presentation and answer questions. It would be good if we could get the number of signatures to over 700 so, if anyone was planning to sign, and has not got round to it yet, now's your chance! http://epetitions.scottish.parliament.uk/view_petition.asp?PetitionID=76 <http://epetitions.scottish.parliament.uk/view_petition.asp?PetitionID=7 6> 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