It appears I’ve been relatively quiet during the past 5 months, at least on this blog. There have been personal reasons for this, as covered in my personal blog. The relevant rants are:

• Family misfortunes encore (4 February)
• A boy and his new bicycle! (6 March)
• My bug-out kit (12 March)
• Family misfortunes encore une fois! (1 April)
• Spinning the world away (again) (4 May)
• Spinning through Worcestershire (6 May)
• RIP Lena Elisabeth Ryan (née Kessler) (7 May)
• Right up yer kilt! (8 May).

Since I got back to Napier in early May, I’ve been working with Dr Gemma Webster on our project ‘Information avoidance and diabetes’. There aren’t many posts on that blog yet, but here is Professor Hazel Hall’s writing on the poster I presented on Monday (8 June) at at an e-conference. You can find tweets about it at #AECIST20. And look out for a blog post in the next week or so.

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Outside of Napier, I’ve also been doing some work with the Scottish Tech Army, mostly proofreading and editing internal documents. I’ve continued working with £eithChooses and ‘my’ Edinburgh community councils.

Today, during this week’s ‘non-work day’ I’ve been updating my online CV and publication-list. The latest two additions are two papers that have very recently been accepted for publication. The first is on the RIVAL project, led by Professor Hazel Hall. This paper covers the project’s contributions so far to practitioner-researcher engagement, and looks ahead to further anticipated contributions from more networking events. Hazel’s post looks forward to presenting that paper the (virtual) 83rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST2020).

The second covers how Scottish community councillors tend to develop and us information literacy (IL). This paper is an output from the LIL-DEM project, led by Peter Cruickshank. The key messages are that (1) community councillors report that their information-handing skills are not derived from their formal education (the focus of so much IL research) but from work and everyday life; (2) that these are practiced by joint working. This, I hope, is a small but valuable addition to investigations into workplace IL, as for example examined in Information at Work: information management in the workplace, edited by Katriina Byström, Jannica Heinström and Ian Ruthven.

And so my final self-trumpet toot tonight is that my review of that amazing book should soon appear in the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science.

Update: It’s now available at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0961000620923777.