1 Citizenship Information Research at the School of Information and Media Rita Marcella and Graeme Baxter Abstract. Discusses recent and current research into citizenship information needs at the School of Information and Media, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. Reviews the most important results from two large-scale, nation-wide surveys (funded by the British Library Research and Innovation Centre) of the citizenship information needs of the UK public, highlighting those occasions where the response in Scotland differed significantly from national trends. Outlines a current project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, studying the impact of the use of information and communication technologies on the communication of parliamentary information in the UK, with particular attention being paid to the situation in the three new devolved legislatures - the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly of Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly. The paper summarises the aims and objectives of the current project and provides a preview of the methodologies to be used, including the development of a novel interactive, electronically assisted interview technique. Introduction This paper will discuss the School of Information and Media’s recent and forthcoming research into citizenship information needs and provision in the United Kingdom, and will pay particular attention to this research as it relates to Scotland and the Scottish public. Citizenship information, as defined by the authors, is: information produced by or about national and local government, government departments and public sector organisations which may be of value to the citizen either as part of everyday life or in the participation by the citizen in government and policy formulation. Between 1997 and 1999, the School conducted a research project, funded by the British Library Research and Innovation Centre (BLRIC), which investigated the extent to which members of the UK public have expressed or unexpressed needs for citizenship information, and which explored their preferred methods of acquiring this information. More recently, the School has been awarded a grant by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to