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At the moment I am attending the European Regional meeting on Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning in Madrid, Spain. There are about 20 participants, from 11 different European countries, plus the representative of UNESCO (Misako Ito) and Woody Hortin from the USA. The meeting is being hosted by the Spanish Ministry of culture. Yesterday we mainly each gave presentations about developments and issues to do with information literacy in our various countries. My head is now buzzing with information and ideas (also my fingers are buzzing since I was the minute taker yesterday, as the only native English speaker apart from Woody!)I will blog some of the information over the next week or so - I have rather limited access to the internet at the moment during this meeting and then I am with my mother again for a couple of days where I don’t have access.I took the most notes yesterday about the Spanish contribution. I have mentioned a number of initiatives at various points on the blog, but here they all are in one place. The Ministry of Culture is very supportive (in the welcome address to us, it was stressed that Spain has a commitment to libraries and information literacy and saw access to knowledge and information as a foundation of democracy). Most encouraging! The three people to contribute were Cristobal Pasadas Urena, Jose A. Gomez and Isabel Cuadrado. The key actions from the Ministry of Culture & the Spanish IL community were:- The meeting held in Toledo in 2006 with theme “Libraries, Learning and the people” in which information, documentation and education professionals came together http://travesia.mcu.es/S_ALFIN/index.html. There were presentations and discussions around the issues of: definition and conceptualisation (including which phrase is used for the subject); the application of IL (e.g. best practice); evaluation of IL; integration of IL into society. The key output was the Toledo Declaration on IL. …
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