Given our formative work on information literacy some years ago,
The following is perhaps of interest
The LILAC conference is being held at the University of Leeds -
27th-29th March 2006.=20
Keynote speakers include:
Lynne Brindley - Chief Executive of The British Library
Peter Brophy - Director of the Centre for Research in Library &
Information Management,=20
Manchester Metropolitan University=20
Professor Philip Candy - Director of Education, Training and
Development,=20
NHS Connecting for Health=20
Jonathan Douglas - Head of Learning and Access at the Museums,
Libraries and Archives Council (MLA)
Professor Dorothy Williams - Dept. of Information Management=20
Aberdeen Business School, The Robert Gordon University=20
Themes of the conference are:
Embedding and enriching=20
Information Literacy and citizenship=20
New areas of practice and research=20
Practical approaches to Information Literacy
Staff development and Information Literacy
Strategic approaches to Information Literacy=20
Further details and a provisional programme can be found at:
http://www.cilip.org.uk/specialinterestgroups/bysubject/informationliter
acy/lilac/lilac2006
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And given the absence of anything from the WSIS at all, my assessment so
far, I think we can safely say we remain the only interest in international
development :)
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