Monday, October 10, 2005

Impact of Information Literacy

The Spring 2005 issue of Library and Information Research has just been made available free on the web, and it is devoted to reports from the LIRG/SCONUL IMPACT initiative. I highlight a couple below, but actually most of the articles are looking at aspects of information literacy.

Crawford, J. (2005) "Glasgow Caledonian University: impact of developing students’ information literacy". Library and Information Research, 29 (91), 20-21.
http://www.cilip.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/
A35590D6-B091-46BA-8BEC-2141E17B960E/0/91_glasgow.pdf

This article includes a short section on the results of a survey of alumni (who thought IL was really useful!) [I bumped into John Crawford on Sauchiehall Street while in Glasgow last week - the photo on the right was taken while I was up there, and is of the River Kelvin, Kelvinbridge, Glasgow]

Baker, C. and Needham, G. "Open University Library: impact and effectiveness of information literacy interventions" Library and Information Research, 29 (91), 30-31.
http://www.cilip.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/
CC1C2338-83DE-44EE-83B6-701B0233ABE7/0/91_open_uni.pdf


The whole issue is at http://www.cilip.org.uk/specialinterestgroups/
bysubject/research/publications/journal/archive/lir91