The Information Literacy website http://www.informationliteracy.org.uk was launched on Tuesday 28th March 2006 by Jonathan
Douglas, Head of Learning and Access at the Museums,
Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), at LILAC 2006: the Librarians
Information Literacy Annual Conference.
The Information
Literacy website has been designed to support practitioners by
providing news, case studies, examples of best practice, links
to information literacy resources and freely available toolkits. Our
aim is to provide a practical resource that information professionals
regularly visit to discover the latest developments in information
literacy.
To complement the launch of the Information Literacy website the
Eduserv Foundation is seeking to fund a number of small-scale information
literacy (IL) studies or projects. The Foundation invites proposals for studies
or projects requiring up to £10,000 funding and is particularly interested
in the development of studies, case-studies, best-practice guidelines, short
research projects or scoping studies for larger research in the following
areas:
* Staff development and IL (librarians
and academics)
* IL as part of staff/student
induction
* Assessing prior IL
learning
* IL for life? IL in schools, FE, HE and
lifelong learning
* How do we know IL is making a
difference?
A brief outline of your proposed project should be emailed
to
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deadline of 31st May 2006. Please describe in your email the
background to the work, its expected outcomes and what value the work
will bring to education. You should also include an initial estimate of the
amount of funding you seek.
