Sunday, January 29, 2006

Library + Information update - IL articles

The latest issue of Library + information update has a number of articles about Information Literacy:
- Putting our own house in order: CILIP-accredited LIS courses, by Kerry Weller.
- Learning in spite of being solo: Humeyra Ceylan.
- Information literacy in FE: Alexandra Stearn.
- Begin at school: Christine Irving & John Crawford.
- Information literacy development in Australia: Angela Newton & Debbi Boden interview Christine Bruce.
- Raising the profile of information literacy in public libraries: Rónán O’Beirne.
and one of them is available free on the internet:

Todd, R (2006) "It’s all about getting ‘A’s." Library + information update, 5 (1/2).
http://www.cilip.org.uk/publications/updatemagazine/ archive/archive2006/january/toddjan06.htm "In a major US project, more than 10,000 pupils have been revealing how their school librarians have taught them how to get the most out of information sources. Ross Todd gives us the background."

Photo by S. Webber: Snow last year (Jan 2004) in Sheffield. No snow yet this January!