IL Organisations - UK
Many UK organisations and associations have an interest and developed material on information literacy.
The Community Services Group of the Chartered Insitute of Library and Information Professionals, has a sub group called the Information Literacy Group. The Information Literacy Group aims to provide a forum across the UK for all sectors of the profession, which encourages debate and allows the exchange of knowledge in all aspects of information literacy.
The Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL) has a Working Group on Information Literacy, whose remit is to take a lead role in the development of theory and practice in relation to information literacy (IL) and its role in the process of learning in further and higher education within the UK.
NHS Education for Scotland have developed an information literacy definition and framework that is intended for use in the healthcare sector.
Department for education and skills.The standards site: Key Stage 3 National strategy. This document looks at the role of the librarian in relation to research and his/her involvement in the curriculum.
The Higher Education Academy Information and Computing Sciences (HEA ICS) subject centre is keen to support both academics and practitioners in developing students IT and information literacy skills. The HEA ICS runs a couple of workshops a year on information literacy and will fiund projects through their Development fund.
Centre for Inquiry-based learning in the Arts and Social Sciences ( CILASS) aims to provide a step-change in the nature and quality of student learning, by embedding discipline-sensitive inquiry-based learning at the heart of this experience. The explicit combination of collaborative inquiry, information literacy development and networked learning gives CILASS its truly distinctive flavour.Information Literacy Community of Practice at Staffordshire University (ILCoPSU). Staffordshire University have set up a Communuity of Practice which aims to share good practice and discuss new ideas in IL teaching and learning within the university sector.
The Joint Information Services Committee
(JISC) have funded information literacy projects, including developing
online learning material and assessing staff information literacy
skills. Details of past projects are available from their web site.
The Scottish Information Literacy Project is developing a National Information Literacy Framework Scotland with partners using SCQF (Scottish Credit Qualification Framework) aims, structure and key features and existing frameworks and models. The aim is to develop a framework which all sectors of education can recognise and develop or which can be applied to the world of work by equipping learners with skills needed for the 21st century.
EMIS: East Midlands Information Skills is a group in the East Midlands that aims to facilitate discussion and collaboration on the development of information skills in the region. It is support by the JISC Regional Support Centre.
Yorkshire Universities Information Skills Group aims to encourage collaboration and co-operation between the region's higher education institutions in the area of information skills teaching and related materials, and to provide support for practitioners by encouraging networking and the sharing of good practice.
The photo was used with kind permission of John Doull.
Created by: The CSG Information Literacy Group
Updated: 4 November 2008