EnIL - European Network on Information Literacy
Focus on: IL Policies
Basili, Carla – Goldstein, Stèphane (2014) - Raising Policy Awareness About Scientific Information Literacy in the European Research Area: A First Set of Options – ECIL 2014, Dubrovnik, Croatia
EnIL workshop (2014 )on “Information Literacy in the Context of Scientific Information Policies” - workshop hosted by the 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing “Let's put data to use: digital scholarship for the next generation” held on June 19-20, 2014 at the Alexander Technological Education Institute of Thessaloniki - Thessaloniki, Greece.Basili, Carla (2013) Information Literacy Policies from a European Commission's Perspective. In Kurbanoğlu, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Catts, R., Akça, S., & Spiranec, Sonja (Eds.) Worldwide Commonalities and Challenges in Information Literacy Research and Practice. Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL 2013), Hacettepe University Department of Information Management, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 61-69
Basili, Carla (2012). The policy dimension of Information Literacy, paper presented at the Exploratory workshop: Innovatory approach promoting open access to scientific information by information literacy - A workshop on ‘Innovative approaches concerning the promotion of open access to scientific information by information literacy’ held on 14 and 15 November 2012 at the Transilvania University, Brasov, Romania, organised by Angela Repanovici.Basili, Carla (2011). A Framework for Analyzing and Comparing Information Literacy Policies in European Countries, pp. 395-418 in: Library Trends, Volume 60, Number 2, Fall 2011 - Information Literacy Beyond the Academy, Part I: Towards Policy Formulation John Crawford, Issue Editor
The EMPATIC Project
EnIL activities on Higher Education provide the sound scientific basis for EMPATIC (Empowering Autonomous Learnin Through Information Competencies Project) funded by Education and Culture DG - Lifelong Learning Programme. The Empatic website has been hosted and maintained within EnIL beyond the formal end of the project (March 2012). EMPATIC web site is available HERE
The European Observatory on IL Policies and Research
The European Observatory on IL Policies and Research is an online portal to European initiatives –mainly policies and research projects - related to Information Literacy, with special focus on the Higher Education context.
To date (January 2012) the EnILObservatory has been developed for Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Spain, and consists of more than 600 web pages. Work is in progress to further upgrade and extend the Observatory to all European countries.To suggest a new initiative, please send an email.