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The next online online blog-comment information literacy Journal Club meeting takes place at 8-9 pm UK time on Wednesday 22 January 2014 (see http://tinyurl.com/kr8qvhb for times elsewhere in the world). The topic will be the resolution on Media and Information Literacy (MIL) that was approved by the UNESCO General Conference in November 2013. UNESCO member countries are now encouraged by UNESCO to endorse these at a national level. You may know that this resolution is based on the MIL recommendations produced and endorsed by IFLA. To participate you go to http://infolitjournalclub.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/next-blog-post-journal-club-22nd.html(where there is more information and links to the MIL resolution) and comment on that blog post. Do join us for the real-time discussion of this short document at 8pm UK time on the 22nd, or you can add comments afterwards (or before) if you can't make it at that time. We will be encouraging discussion of questions such as: - What can be done (or is already being done) in your country to lobby and challenge your government about these recommendations? - Who can we work with on getting UNESCO member states to (quoting the resolution) "to take the Media and Information Literacy Recommendations into consideration during the planning of future strategies, policies, and initiatives on education, lifelong learning, literacy, and other areas which will contribute to building a Knowledge Society." - How can we ensure that there isn't a focus on media literacy to the exclusion of information literacy? If you want to see what a blog post discussion looks like, just click on any of the previous discussion posts on the journal club blog at http://infolitjournalclub.blogspot.co.uk/ -------------- Sheila Webber, Senior Lecturer & Director of the Centre for Information Literacy Research, Information School, The University of Sheffield, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield, S1 4DP. UK [log in to unmask] Phone: +44 114 222 2641 Second Life & Twitter: Sheila Yoshikawa The Information Literacy Weblog http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/