ANCIL authors, Dr Emma Coonan and Dr Jane Secker, have been working with colleagues in the US on a white paper entitled “Global Perspectives on Information Literacy”. As its title suggests, the paper explores information literacy worldwide. The paper is due to be presented and discussed at the ACRL Conference, which takes place in Baltimore from […]
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Do you have a new digital resource (launched in 2016) making a splash in the development of information literacy skills in your institution / community or even further afield? If so, we’d like to give you the recognition you deserve. Send us your nomination for the prestigious Credo Digital Award (deadline: Friday March 3rd). The
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Nominations are now open for the Information Literacy Award 2017 (sponosored by CILIP ILG and the National Library of Wales). Independent Library Consultant Gayner Eyre has been one of the many distinguished experts invited to judge this prestigious award during the past few years. We asked Gayner to offer some practical advice and tips to
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The CILIP Information Literacy Group are delighted to launch a series of 3 webinars and we are partnering with an expert team from the United States, from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) in this series of webinars exploring the Intersections between Scholarly Communications and Information Literacy. These webinars will be free to
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The 2017 information literacy awards are now open for nominations. The Student Award entitles 2 students to full places at the LILAC conference. Anna Theis (Teaching and Learning Assistant, University of Manchester) was one of last year’s winners. She describes the personal and professional benefits of attending this prestigious event. I was so delighted to
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The next Information Literacy Journal Club discussion is taking place this Thursday 2nd February, starting at 8pm. The chosen article is Student perspectives: redesigning a research assignment handout through the academic literacies model by Alison Hicks, which was published in the Journal of Information Literacy last year. Here is the abstract of the article, taken from https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/JIL/article/view/PRA-V10-I1-2: This study
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Isobel Ramsden reports on the CILIP Information Literacy Group’s first joint event with the CILIP Information Services Group (London & South East), “Supporting Young People in the Digital Information Age: The Role of Libraries in Promoting Transition Skills”. The event was held at CILIP on 30th November 2016. The event started with a talk by Natasha Skeen,
The Information Literacy Group is pleased to announce that we will again be running a series of free webinars to support our annual conference, LILAC. These webinars are primarily aimed at LILAC conference speakers and delegates. The first in this year’s series will be presented by Andrew Walsh (University of Huddersfield) Andrew’s webinar will focus on
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The WHELF (Welsh Higher Education Libraries Forum) Learning and Teaching Group are holding a LibTeachMeet on the theme of ’employability’ on Monday 28th November at Swansea University’s new Bay Campus. Lunch and refreshments will be provided by sponsorship from the CILIP Information Literacy Group. Attendees will have an opportunity to take a tour of Swansea
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Last month the Information Literacy Group‘s Chair, Dr Jane Secker, gave a keynote presentation at the Association for Learning Technology Conference (ALT-C). It was about copyright and e-learning, and covered themes such as information literacy, information privilege and the rights we have to use information and ideas from others. It drew much praise at the conference and it
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