**Apologises for cross posting**
I'm delighted to announce that the long awaited co-authored book Information literacy and lifelong learning: Policy issues, the workplace, health and public libraries by John Crawford and Christine Irving is published.
The book is primarily concerned with information literacy in a wider world beyond the traditional stamping ground of higher education. As the title indicates it examines the less structured world of information usage in lifelong learning, the working environment and the growing and important role of public libraries. It reviews the information culture, the role of information literacy within it and how information policy agendas may be taken forward. Practical suggestions for implementing national information policies are discussed in the final chapter. There is a chapter on information literacy in early years education (primary schools and nursery), a reminder that lifelong learning means just that. Looks at information literacy in health management; supporting the public in their quest for health information, policy documents, frameworks and the role of the public library in this area. Case studies and examples of good practice are included throughout the book and discussed, these are drawn primarily from the UK and Europe, North America and Australasia but also other countries. Jenny Foreman and Morag Higgison from the Scottish Government Information Service have written a case study of their workplace information literacy activities and experiences which complements the overall text very well.
This book is, to a great extent, the outcome of lessons learned from the work of the Scottish Information Literacy Project, 2004–2010, and we would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who contributed to the work of the Project, whether from within the information sector or elsewhere. We learned a lot from all those who collaborated with us and they may see
something of what they contributed in this book. It also draws upon the current work of the Community of Practice 'The Right Information: Information Skills for a 21st Century Scotland' http://www.therightinformation.org/ and case studies and examples supplied through generous responses from various jisc emailing lists.
Readership: LIS practitioners and students, information professionals, and those concerned with information policy issues. It will also be relevant to those concerned with the learning process in health, the workplace, lifelong learning, and those working within informal learning and skills development environments. - See more at: http://www.woodheadpublishing.com/en/book.aspx?bookID=2618&ChandosTitle=1#sthash.E0Douue1.dpuf
Christine
Christine Irving
Information Skills for a 21st Century Scotland www.therightinformation.org/<http://www.therightinformation.org/>
” To prosper in the Digital Age, people must become masters of information.” C. Stern (2003)
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Centre for Social Informatics
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Edinburgh Napier University
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