Useful links

Information Literacy

• CILIP CSG Information Literacy group
• Now available:
  "High Level Colloquium on Information Literacy & Lifelong Learning" at:
  http://www.ifla.org/IIIwsis/High-Level-Colloquium.pdf  
  Report of a Meeting, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt November 6-9, 2005.
  Reported and Edited by Sarah Devotion Garner, J.D., M.L.I.S.
• See also the News Release "Information Literacy for all" at: http://www.ifla.org/III/wsis/info-lit-
  for-all.htm
• RDN Virtual Training Suite - offers 60 free subject guides to using the Internet for research, as part of an Information Literacy programme. These tutorials are regularly updated by librarians and lecturers UK wide. FE level.
  http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk 
• SCONUL has a working Group on Information Literacy you can access it's website
  http://www.sconul.ac.uk/activities/inf_lit/
  links.html  

Reader development

enCompass - The Global Bookclub - http://www.encompassculture.com

enCompassCulture is a worldwide reading group, the place to find your next book and talk about books with other readers around the world. It has full details of over 6,000 books for all age ranges and is full of useful features.

Enjoying Reading! - www.enjoyingreading.org.uk

Enjoying Reading is an important new DCSF funded initiative to help every child love reading by encouraging schools and libraries to work more closely together. It helps schools understand how public libraries, school libraries and schools library services can help them and provides practical tools for joint working.

Signed Stories -
http://www.signedstories.com

This website is from ITV and is designed to bring children’s stories to deaf children in British Sign Language.  It’s free and supported by some of the UK’s biggest stage, screen, sporting and literary icons including the children’s laureate Michael Rosen.