The ability to think critically and make balanced judgements about any information we find and use. It empowers us as citizens to develop informed views and to engage fully with society.
In the beginning… The team, led by Lancashire County Council, received a grant from the Health Education England (HEE) as part of the National Health and Digital Literacy Partnership with CILIP, Libraries Connected and Arts Council England. Our proposal included the design, creation and maintenance of an online health information hub. An online health hub…
Information literacy doesn’t tend to be a term we use a lot in NHS libraries. Critical appraisal, health literacy and much of the core work we do is clearly inextricable from the concept of finding, evaluating and using the right information. However, the wider discourse and debates around the discipline of information literacy sometimes feel…
