1) From Christine Irving and John Crawford, their Scottish Information Literacy project blog to share news and ideas: http://caledonianblogs.net/information-literacy/ 2) From Anup Kumar Das, links to UNESCO Resources on Information Literacy http://informationliteracy-asia.blogspot.com/ Photo by Sheila Webber: Sheffield, November 2008

Mark Hepworth and Marian Smith have announced that their paper: Hepworth, M. and Smith, M. (2008) ''Workplace information literacy for administrative staff in HE'' Australian Library Journal, 57 (3), 212-236 is now in their Institutional Repository at: http://magpie.lboro.ac.uk:8080/dspace-jspui/handle/2134/3723 This reminds me that I ought to ...

Torras, M and Saetre, T. (2008) Information Literacy Education: A Process Approach Professionalising the Pedagogical Role of Academic Libraries. Chandos. Paperback: £39.95 ISBN 978-1-84334-386-8 (1-84334-386-X)

Checking the links of the information literacy portals in the previous entry, I came across a link on the German portal to a British website that has won an award last week (or at least its creator did). Russell Stannard has created a nice series of Teacher Training videos. He walks you through how to use various tools that might be useful for ...

Here is a short post with some more of the information literacy links I put in the notes to my keynote PowerPoint at the conference in Lille. Information Literacy Journals (all open access) - Communications in Information Literacy (USA) http://www.comminfolit.org/index.php/cil/index - Journal of information literacy ...

The LearnHigher website has identified 20 areas to do with learning in higher and further education, and for each area has collected some resources, including their own projects . LearnHigher is an outcome of a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. One of the areas is Information Literacy, and the coordinator is Bob Glass, Department of ...

ALISS has a list of recommended resources for Library induction / information literacy training sessions at http://www.alissnet.org.uk/

Thanks to Alastair Allan for alerting me to the fact that LIBER journal is now open access. The journal is at be accessed at http://liber.library.uu.nl/

Firstly, in Journal of Information Literacy (vol 2 no 1, 2008) all free at http://jil.lboro.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/JIL - Badke, W. A Rationale for Information Literacy as a Credit-bearing Discipline - Crawford, J. Making new friends: an information literacy trip to Washington DC - Dotan, G. and Aharony, N. Information literacy roles of library media ...

Ireland's Higher Education Authority funds the National Digital Learning Repository and on 5th September, it launched the Information Skills Community of Practice which will support the teaching of information literacy. The repository of learning objects will only be available to those in the Information Skills Community of Practice. More info at ...