The Big Blue

the big blue project surveyed present practice in Information Skills Training for students in Higher and Post-16 Education.

The project's deliverables will assist in ensuring a coherent approach to the development of an information literate student population in the UK.

The project ran from April 2001-July 2002 and has now concluded.

• Big Blue Final Report
• Literature review:
  • Literature Review: Introduction and International Perspective
  • Literature Review: The UK Position
  • Literature Review Update, June 2002
  • Key Findings from Literature Review
• Bibliography
• Online Audit:
  • Summary of Key Findings from Online Audit
  • Graphs showing Key Findings from Online Audit
• Taxonomy:
  • Taxonomy of Information Skills:
    • HTML
    • Printable (PDF)
  • Model of the 'Information Literate Person':
    • PowerPoint presentation
    • HTML
• Case Studies
• Toolkits:
  • Information Skills Toolkit
  • Post-16 Key Skills Toolkit
  • Model of Information Skills within Key Skills:
    • PowerPoint presentation
    • HTML
  • Printable versions of Toolkits

• Archived material

the big blue was funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee and managed jointly by Manchester Metropolitan University Library and Leeds University Library.