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CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals 7 Ridgmount St, London WC1E 7AE. Tel: 020 7255 0500 Textphone: 020 7255 0505 Fax: 020 7255 0501 Email: Mailto:[log in to unmask] News from CILIP Wednesday 4 October 2006 For immediate release (Please copy to online discussion lists) Twenty-five authors from nine countries and four continents address new literacies for enabling learning in the digital age in this important new book from Facet Publishing. In the 21st century, digital tools enable information to be generated faster and in greater profusion than ever before, to the point where its extent and value are literally beyond imagining. Such quantities can only be meaningfully addressed using more digital tools, and thus our relationship to information is fundamentally changed. This situation presents a particular challenge to processes of learning and teaching, and demands a response from both information professionals and educators. Enabling education in a digital environment means not only changing the form in which learning opportunities are offered, but also enabling students to survive and prosper in digitally based learning environments. 'Digital Literacies for Learning' brings together a global community of educators, educational researchers, librarians and IT strategists, to consider how learners need to be equipped in an educational environment that is increasingly suffused with digital technology. Traditional notions of literacy need to be challenged, and new literacies, including information literacy and IT literacy, need to be considered as foundation elements for digitally involved learners. Leading international experts from the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Mexico and throughout Europe contribute to the debate, and Hannelore Rader, Librarian and Dean of the University Libraries, University of Louisville, Kentucky, provides the foreword. The book is in two parts: In Part 1, Literacies in the Digital Age, the contributors analyse how digital technologies have enabled transformative change in the ways in which learning can be constructed, and discuss the nature of the new literacies that have emerged in this new virtual and e-learning environment. In Part 2, Enabling and Supporting Digital Literacies, the contributors go on to consider the ways in which digital literacies can be made available to learners, and how these literacies are being relocated in a more student-centred environment within the broader perspective of learning. This book takes the issues raised in the successful Information and IT Literacy, also co-edited by Allan Martin, into a broader context. It is essential reading for all information professionals and educators involved in developing strategies and practices for learning in a digital age. Contact: Mark O'Loughlin, Marketing Manager, Facet Publishing Tel: 020 7255 0591 Email: Mailto:[log in to unmask] Notes to Editors Digital Literacies for Learning (September 2006; 272pp; hardback; ISBN-13: 978-1-85604-563-6; ISBN-10: 1-85604-563-3; £39.95) is edited by Allan Martin, Director of the IT Education Unit at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and Dan Madigan, Founder Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA, where he is currently Interim Director, Scholarship of Engagement. To order copies: Bookpoint Ltd Mail Order Department 130 Milton Park Abingdon Oxon OX14 4SB Tel: 01235 827702 Fax: 01235 827703 Email: Mailto:[log in to unmask] Or online at www.facetpublishing.co.uk. Facet Publishing is the publishing arm of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, which is the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers. It forms a community of around 35,000 people engaged in library and information work, of whom around 22,000 are CILIP Members and around 13,000 are regular customers of CILIP Enterprises. For more information about CILIP, please go to www.cilip.org.uk. - Ends -