Can pay, should pay? Exploring paid and unpaid work opportunities from employer and student perspectives.
Conference Proceeding
Caddell, M., McIlwhan, R., Irving, C., Smith, C. F., & Smith, S. (2012)
Can pay, should pay? Exploring paid and unpaid work opportunities from employer and student perspectives
Within current university-focused discussions around how to enhance and support student employability, considerable emphasis has been placed on gaining work experience, either...
Can Pay, Should Pay? Comparing employer and student outcomes of paid and unpaid work opportunities
Presentation / Conference
Smith, C. F., Smith, S., & Irving, C. (2013, April)
Can Pay, Should Pay? Comparing employer and student outcomes of paid and unpaid work opportunities. Paper presented at HEA STEM Conference, Birmingham, UK
In a time of high youth unemployment, when relevant work experience is often cited as the most important factor in finding a graduate job, computing students are being advised...
Information literacy in Scotland: making it mainstream.
Journal Article
Crawford, J., Irving, C., & Smith, L. (2015)
Information literacy in Scotland: making it mainstream. CILIP Update, 41-43
How the Right Information an online community of practice, is bringing together information professionals and representatives from other professions to promote information lit...
Can pay, should pay? Comparing employer and student outcomes of paid and unpaid work opportunities.
Conference Proceeding
Smith, C. F., Smith, S. & Irving, C. (2013)
Can pay, should pay? Comparing employer and student outcomes of paid and unpaid work opportunities. In Proceedings of the HEA STEM Learning and Teaching Conference (2013): Where practice and pedagogy meet, 114-119. doi:10.11120/stem.hea.2013.0025
This paper looks across and beyond this project to examine the range of placement and work experience forms currently experienced by computing students, and asks the question ...
Engaging and influencing policy and the curriculum – the Scottish Information Literacy Project experience.
Book
Irving, C. (2012)
Engaging and influencing policy and the curriculum – the Scottish Information Literacy Project experience. In C. Rankin, & A. Brock (Eds.), Library services for children and young people: Challenges and opportunities in the digital age, 49-63. Facet
Library and information science (LIS) professionals support learning and teaching in a variety of ways, and this chapter focuses on information literacy (IL) and the key messa...
Information literacy and lifelong learning: Policy issues, the workplace, health and public libraries.
Book
Crawford, J., & Irving, C. (2013)
Information literacy and lifelong learning: Policy issues, the workplace, health and public libraries. Chandos Publishing
Reviews the role of information literacy in developing employability skills, personal health management, and informal learning from a variety of areas including: information p...
Going beyond the 'library': the current work of the Scottish Information Literacy Project.
Journal Article
Crawford, J., & Irving, C. (2008)
Going beyond the 'library': the current work of the Scottish Information Literacy Project. Library and information research, 32, 29-37
Reviews briefly the origins of the Scottish Information Literacy Project from its origins in 2004 as a project solely devoted to developing a National Information Literacy Fra...
Information literacy, policy issues and employability
Journal Article
Crawford, J., & Irving, C. (2014)
Information literacy, policy issues and employability. International Journal of Multidisciplinary Comparative Studies, Volume, 8-25
Although the term information literacy dates back to 1974 it has developed as a powerful information ideology only in the past twenty years. There is still much debate about h...
Improving access to Library and Information Science research: maximizing its relevance and impact to practitioners
Journal Article
Hall, H., Irving, C., & Cruickshank, P. (2012)
Improving access to Library and Information Science research: maximizing its relevance and impact to practitioners. Business Information Review, 29(4), 224-230. https://doi.org/10.1177/0266382112470413
Between 2009 and 2012 there was considerable investment in three UK projects related to library and information science (LIS) research: (1) the Library and Information Science...
Information literacy in employability training: The experience of Inverclyde Libraries.
Journal Article
Crawford, J., & Irving, C. (2012)
Information literacy in employability training: The experience of Inverclyde Libraries. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 44, 79-89. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000611436096
The study is an evaluation of an employability training programme provided by Inverclyde Libraries in West Central Scotland and the role of information literacy within the tra...