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‘Information Literacy and Society’ project well under way

September 11, 2023 Bruce Ryan 0

Earlier this year, Bruce Ryan, Marina Milosheva, and Peter Cruickshank started on a literature review project to understand the impacts of information literacy (IL) on society.  In this project, Bruce, [more …]

New paper: ‘An information literacy lens on community representation for participatory budgeting in Brazil’

May 22, 2023 Bruce Ryan 0

Back in 2019, Wegene Demeke and I (Bruce Ryan) carried out a research visit to São Paulo City in Brazil, kindly funded by the Global [more …]

Librarians as Proxies: An exploratory study on the digital proxy practices of librarians

May 5, 2023 Frances Ryan 0

I have recently been awarded a small research grant from Edinburgh Napier University. The project, for which I am PI, is called “Librarians as Proxies: An [more …]

#ISIC2022 at IBI-HU, Berlin: Marina presents the CIEL conceptual framework

September 23, 2022 Marina Milosheva 0

The Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) 2022 conference is just around the corner! It will be held at the Humboldt University School of Library and [more …]

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Information Literacy Impact Framework report published

September 22, 2022 Peter Cruickshank 0

Peter Cruickshank, Bruce Ryan and Marina Miloshava worked together to carry out a review of recent research literature on information literacy (IL) impact. This is [more …]

Three new publications on information literacy from CSI members

May 24, 2022 Marina Milosheva 0

Three new information literacy outputs were recently published by CSI’s visiting Professor Brian Detlor and second-year PhD student Marina Milosheva. The first of the three [more …]

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A PhD by publication

November 4, 2021 Peter Cruickshank 0

After 10 years of working through a narrow seam of data relating to Scottish community councils, was awarded a PhD by publication back in July. [more …]

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New paper: Measuring workplace information literacy

June 9, 2021 Peter Cruickshank 0

A paper which Dr Bruce Ryan and myself co-authored has just been published. It provides a great chance to reflect on the challenges we faced [more …]

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Invitation to the Information Literacy Communities of Practice

May 25, 2021 davidbrazier 0

Dr David Brazier recently attended the Information Literacy Communities of Practice bi-annual meeting to briefly discuss ongoing work on the Public Engagement Project: Information Literacy [more …]

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