EnIL International School on Business Information Literacy

Within the activities of the EnIL network (www.ceris.cnr.it/Basili/EnIL/index.html

<http://www.ceris.cnr.it/Basili/EnIL//index.html>)I coordinate, the second edition of the EnIL International School on Business Information Literacy has been launched (http://enil.ceris.cnr.it/SummerSchool/index.htm).

 

I will be very grateful if you could *circulate* the information about the school in your Country, among librarians, students, professionals and interested people.

 

Topics covered:

 

* *The current information scenario: characteristics, benefits,

problems*

* *Information Literacy as a requirement for an Information Society *

* *Approaches and frameworks to Information Literacy*

* *Value of information*

* *The scientific information universe*

* *The business information universe*

* *Digital libraries*

* *Methodologies for information organisation and delivery*

* *Tools for information access*

* *Limits of the Internet information environment*

* *Criteria for evaluating information sources*

* *Structure of scientific literature and scientific writing style*

 

with a further specialised section devoted to *business information*.

Teachers will be Information Literacy experts and representatives from the major suppliers of information services (Thomson Reuters, Questel, Minesoft, Cas/Stn, ...).

 

The *place* will be *Rome*, the date *13-17 October 2008*.

 

Early registration fee is 150 Euro (until 8 August 2008).

 

Late registration fee is 200 Euro.

 

*Special* registration fee: 30 EUR for participants from the following

countries: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine.

 

We are looking for low-cost accommodation, ranging from 45 to 80 EUR per night, breakfast included.

 

Best regards,

 

Prof. Carla Basili, coordinator

 

the EnIL International School on Business Information Literacy

 

European network on Information Literacy

 

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