A seguinte Notícia foi compilada pela Secção IL da IFLA:
EU
The European network on Information Literacy (EnIL) was also introduced in the last Newsletter. It is is a network of scientists and researchers actively involved in information literacy, drawn from 14 EU countries. The network was established by initiative of the Italian National Research Council.
EnIL has opened a discourse on information literacy at European level, in order to promoting the establishment of a culture of information in Europe. The EnIL network is on its way to expanding to all the EU25 CountriesA Survey on Information Competencies of Students aimed at strengthening campus awareness of the need for information literacy and propose a systematic data gathering about the information competencies of incoming students in Higher Education was one of the first initiatives. The pilot University was the Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta (LUMSA) in Rome.
A questionnaire was submitted to the attention of EnIL members and formed the basis for a common survey in each of the involved Countries. The gathering of answers is now ended and the result is a collection of comparable data to be analysed for future common actions.At the moment the EnIL activities on the way are the following:
- – complete the data checking of the survey
- – complete the statistical processing of data
- – complete the survey report
- – complete the EnIL gateway
- – attempt to organise a new meeting with some results in hand
