Copyright Literacy (aka Chris Morrison and Jane Secker) is delighted to announce that Icepops 2024 is now open for bookings. They have a limited number of places this year, so please do hurry if you want to secure a place. The keynote speaker will be Kyle K Courtney from Harvard University and the conference will take […]
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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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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
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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The Annual General Meeting of the CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) will take place online on Friday 26th April at 12pm using Zoom. The group’s Annual Report for 2023/24 will be formally presented at the meeting. Date: Friday, April 26th Time: 12.00-13.00 (BST) Venue: Online, Zoom Attendance at the AGM is free and is open
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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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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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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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The update below has been provided by Stéphane Goldstein. The Media and Information Literacy Alliance (MILA) has been pursuing its mission to foster collaborations, not least to help develop the evidence base in information literacy (IL) and media literacy. At the end of 2022, MILA commissioned a project, funded by CILIP and the CILIP Information
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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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