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Tag Archives: models

LIL-DEM stakeholder report released

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Bruce Ryan
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Click the graphic to download the report

 

We are very pleased that we can release our report on the LIL-DEM project. This report is based on our initial examination of the data from a Scotland-wide online survey of community councillors. Please click the graphic on the left to access the report.

Over the next few weeks, we will explore some of the issues raised in this report, but for now we want to thank the 1300 community councillors who responded to the survey, the community councillors who helped publicise it, and the people who helped us refine the questions. (These include Improvement Service staff, colleagues here at Edinburgh Napier University’s Centre for Social Informatics, and some Edinburgh community councillors.)

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Posted in Community Councils, Digital engagement, Hyperlocal democracy, Information literacy, LIL-DEM | Tagged Community Councils, data, dissemination, information behavior, information behaviour, Information literacy, information needs, legislation, lifelong learning, LIL-DEM, models | Leave a reply

‘Practices of community representatives …’ presentation at i3 #i3rgu

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Bruce Ryan
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Peter Cruickshank‘s presentation on our paper Practices of community representatives in exploiting information channels for citizen engagement is available from his slideshare site. This presentation, delivered at information: interactions and impact, was based on some of our work for the IL-DEM project. Peter discusses:

  1. what community councils and who community councillors are; why they are interesting; how this motivates our research
  2. a necessarily brief history of information literacy (IL); the recent-ish SCONUL model of IL; and Activity Theory (Wikipedia)
  3. how we did the research; and our findings, set out in order of the SCONUL pillars:
    • about how community councillors learn about their roles.
      • For example, it was noticeable how few stepped far from the information and training provided by local authorities. (There are issues with that – see the next blog post.)
    • about how they keep up to date with local issues, and gather information on citizens’ opinions. (The latter is their main statutory duty.)
      • For example, planning to fill information gaps lacks rigour, and there are noticeable variations in information-gathering practices.
      • But information-gathering and sharing can help build much-needed social capital (Wikipedia)
  4. how Activity Theory can help explain these ‘broken pillars’
  5. some thoughts on IL as a measurement and explanation tool
  6. some policy implications.

We are grateful to CILIP‘s Information Literacy Group for funding this research, and to the organisers of i3 for this opportunity to publicise our work.

PS: other Centre for Social Informatics presentations at i3 are showcased on Hazel Hall’s blog-post.

Posted in Community Councils, Digital engagement, Hyperlocal democracy, IL-DEM, Information literacy, Projects | Tagged Community Councils, dissemination, I3, IL-DEM, information behavior, information behaviour, Information literacy, information needs, models, SCONUL | Leave a reply

Community councillors’ information literacy

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Bruce Ryan
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We’re very pleased that we have successfully finished the Information literacy for democratic engagement (IL-DEM) project. You are very welcome to download and read the IL-DEM stakeholder report. Alternatively, here’s a short summary of IL-DEM’s rationale, methods and findings:

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Posted in Community Councils, Digital engagement, Hyperlocal democracy, IL-DEM, Information literacy | Tagged Community Councils, IL-DEM, information behavior, information behaviour, lifelong learning, models, SCONUL | 5 Replies

Diamonds in the rough: modelling information literacy and lifelong learning

Posted on November 21, 2016 by Bruce Ryan
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The IL-DEM project is designed to answer three research questions which Bruce set out in his post on 23 October. This post is our chance to start exploring elements of the second question:

What are the relationships between (1) information behaviours, (2) literacies (skills and capabilities), (3) resources, and (4) knowledge and experience, in the acquisition of information literacy amongst Community Councillors?

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Posted in Community Councils, Digital engagement, IL-DEM, Information literacy, Knowledge management | Tagged information behavior, information behaviour, lifelong learning, models | 2 Replies

Recent Posts

  • Register for the next Open Knowledge Foundation Edinburgh meet-up: Monday 7th May, Edinburgh Napier Merchiston
  • DREaM paper accepted
  • LIL-DEM stakeholder report released
  • Exploring Information Literacy through the lens of Activity Theory: CSI at ECIL 2017 #ECIL17 #ECIL2017
  • new project: MIL-DEM
  • Looking forward to the European Conference on Information Literacy #ECIL2017
  • ‘Practices of community representatives …’ presentation at i3 #i3rgu
  • Napier research conference slides
  • IL-DEM abstracts accepted for I3 and ECIL conferences
  • LIL-DEM – examining our survey responses

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