Emma Burnett

Need some dosh for a research project? Read on…

The CILIP Information Literacy Group offers up to £20,000 to fund high quality research through an annual bursary scheme. Bids of up to a £10,000 maximum are invited.   This funding is to support practitioners (who are ILG members) to support well-framed research. Methodological strategies can be either qualitative or quantitative, or both. Approaches can […]

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Event summary: Information Literacy at the interface: learning from practice in the classroom and employment

In May, ILG teamed up with SLA Europe for two special events, a networking evening and half-day workshop, both focusing on Information Literacy in the workplace. An event review of the networking evening with Nancy Graham (LSE), Stéphane Goldstein (Research Information Network) and Ian Hunter (Shearman and Sterling) can be found over on the SLA

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IL and Wikipedia in schools – tender opportunity

This has been reposted with permission from DigiLit Leicester. The original post can be found at http://www.digilitleic.com/?p=889 We are really excited about our latest project, which will produce games based resources to enhance Year 9 learners (13-14 years old) engagement with, and understanding of, Wikipedia.01. The tender is open until 30 June 2015, and interested

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Report from the Pedagogy for Librarians course

The CILIP Information Literacy Group’s sponsored Pedagogy for Librarians course took place last week. This report has been reposted with permission and thanks from Laura Woods’ blog. The original post can be found here. Last week (1-5 June) I was lucky enough to attend a week-long residential course at the Northern College, funded by the

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Joint ILG/SLA workshop: Information Literacy at the interface

The Information Literacy Group are joining forces with SLA Europe to present an evening event and a half-day workshop session with cross –sector appeal. Find out more about the half-day workshop below. Event: Information Literacy at the interface: Learning from practice in the classroom and in employment When: Friday 22nd May, 09.30-13.00 Where: University of

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Joint ILG/SLA event: Information Literacy in the Workplace

The Information Literacy Group are joining forces with SLA Europe to present an evening event and a half-day workshop session with cross –sector appeal. Find out more about the evening event below. Event: Information Literacy in the Workplace When: 21st May 2015, 18.00-21.30 Where: University of Liverpool in London, 33 Finsbury Square, London SLA Europe

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