Dear all and with apologies for cross posting,
John and Christine are pleased to announce the award of £41,598 by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, one of the UK's largest independent grant making foundations, to support the work of the Scottish Information literacy Project until September 2009.
The money will be used to pursue the following key objectives of the Project's work:
The restructuring of the recently piloted National Information Literacy Framework (Scotland) to include: exemplars of good practice, feedback and evaluation survey results and research data from the study of the use of information usage in the workplace. Armed with this information the Framework will become a genuine lifelong learning document with extended components on workplace information usage and lifelong learning.
We will continue with our advocacy work and aim to increase usage of the National Information Literacy Framework (Scotland) in Schools by working with partners and interested parties to link the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) draft Learning Outcomes and Experiences with information literacy activities and the framework. We will also look at teacher CPD activities and initial teacher training.
The other area is reviewing the role of information literacy in the workplace and working with appropriate partners to identify needs, look at how training programmes might be developed and what their content and mode of delivery might be. We are already working with employers' organisations and the STUC and we hope to identify companies which we can work with. As we are a Scottish Project and most of Scotland's businesses are Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) it is likely that SMEs will be our main focus in the private sector. We also hope to work with the public sector which our research suggests will be fertile ground and we will continue our links with our friends in Adult Literacies work. We are keen to work with public libraries which have IT training programmes which can be developed to include information literacy.
The funding will also make it possible to increase Christine's working week from three days to four which, as the Project's volume of work has greatly increased, is a very welcome development.
Glasgow Caledonian University
Dr. John Crawford,                        Christine Irving
Library Research Officer,              Researcher / Project Officer
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