Friday, December 16, 2016

New articles: Ageing and information; political participation; dyslexia and IL; social equality

The new issue of open-access journal Library and Information Research (vol 40, No 123, 2016) focuses on Strategic and policy making issues in information literacy, with guest Editor John Crawford. The issue includes:
- Ageing and information: The Scottish older people’s movement by Bill Johnston
- Information literacy as a tool to support political participation by Lauren N Smith
- Does dyslexia present barriers to information literacy in an online environment? A pilot study by Lynne Cole, Andrew MacFarlane, George Buchanan
- Information literacy development in a small country: A practical proposition? by John Crawford
- Between digital inclusion and social equality: The role of public libraries in Newcastle upon Tyne by Maria Laura Ruiu, Massimo Ragnedda
- Information literacy and information seeking of public sector managers in the Welsh Government by Elizabeth Tait, Robert Edwards
The issue is at http://www.lirgjournal.org.uk/lir/ojs/index.php/lir/issue/view/74
Photo by Sheila Webber: Dusk, North Greenwich underground station, December 2016

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