Emma Burnett

Webinar

A practical introduction to digital and information literacy frameworks for apprentices

The CILIP Information Literacy Group is pleased to announce a webinar that will introduce participants to digital and information literacy frameworks and how they can be practically applied in the workplace.  In the webinar we will look at defining what digital and information literacy is and what the differences are between the two.  We will go

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Teaching

Unfolding Our Genius Hour Journey: Fostering Information Literacy Through Student Curiosity

This guest post is by Sanam Bozorgi, a teacher librarian at Arbor school in Dubai. Although I am not a big fan of Harry Potter, but in book number five, ‘The Order of the Phoenix,’ there is a real interesting example of inquiry-based learning. Unlike Dolores Umbridge’s rigid, textbook-driven approach, Harry Potter’s Dumbledore’s Army showcases

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The logo for the LILAC 2024 conference. The logo says 2024 Leeds but the number 0 is replaced with an image of an owl. A number of Leeds Beckett University’s constituent colleges at various times during their history featured the owl as their emblem, this included the City of Leeds Training College, the original occupants of Headingley Campus. Below 2024 Leeds it says LILAC: the information literacy conference. The logo is the colour lilac.

LILAC 2024: A View from Public Libraries

This post is by Ana Silva, Library Development Officer at Cambridgeshire Libraries, who was awarded a bursary to attend this year’s LILAC Conference in Leeds. I attended LILAC 2024, held at Leeds Beckett University, as one of the winners of the bursaries for under-represented groups, which include those of us working in public libraries. As

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Event report: Information Literacy and AI roundtable

On 20th March, the Information Literacy Group hosted an online roundtable discussion on information literacy and artificial intelligence (AI). Part of our commemoration of 50 years of information literacy in 2024, this event was a well-timed opportunity to reflect on AI as the latest, but certainly not the only, challenge to how we conceive of

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5 members of the new professionals sub-committee are smiling and wearing LILAC conference lanyards. They are stood in a building with glass walls directly in front of a poster board advertising Chatting Info Lit.

ILG New Professionals Committee vacancies

Are you a new professional or student who is interested in information literacy? Would you like to become more involved with the work of the Information Literacy Group and meet other new professionals? If so, please consider applying for the ILG New Professional Committee! The New Professionals Committee has been running since 2021, and has

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Webinar

Register for Turning Points: Setting the Record Straight on LGBTQ+ History

The CILIP LGBTQ+ and Information Literacy Group networks would like to invite you to attend their upcoming free online event, Turning Points: Setting the Record Straight on LGBTQ+ History, taking place on Thursday 29 February, 13:00 – 14:00 (GMT). Big changes in rights and legislation around LGBTQ+ people always come with their share of challenges

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Coffee Meeting

Introducing the ILG New Professionals – Ana Williams

What is your role in the committee? I am a new member of the ILG New Professionals Sub-committee. When did you join and why?  I joined at the end of 2023. My previous career was as a primary teacher, where I championed information literacy against a fast-evolving internet that offered ‘cut and paste’ homework authored

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