The ILG New Professionals Sub-Committee presents: ‘Chatting Info Lit‘, a brand-new podcast series. We will be inviting both new and experienced professionals across multiple LIS sectors to hear about their exciting information literacy projects and to find out what information literacy means to them. We will also be exploring the experience of being a new […]
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The Information Literacy Group’s North American rep, Elizabeth Brookbank, has provided a round up of news from across the pond. Vermont State University caused an uproar last month by announcing it would move to an “all-digital academic library.” This type of move is something that universities in the US have been tip-toeing toward for years,
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What has defined 2023 so far in schools? It has to be the advent of Chatbot GPT (OpenAI, 2023) the artificial intelligence (AI) programme that will write everything for you. Is this the kiss of death to essay composition? Will all teachers use it to save time thinking of pertinent phrases in student reports? Should
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What is your role in the committee? I joined the New Professionals Sub-committee this past summer, coming to it from an academic librarianship perspective. The main thing I’m working on at the moment is Chatting Info Lit, the sub-committee’s podcast series for new professionals. I’ve been editing the first episode, as well as producing some
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Since ChatGPT, a chatbot based on an artificial intelligence large language model, was launched in November 2022, the academic world has been abuzz with speculation about what the availability of tools like this could mean for the future of education. ChatGPT makes it extremely simple to generate convincing responses to prompt questions – which raises
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What is your role in the committee? I am a member of the ILG New Professionals sub-committee. When did you join and why? I joined in September 2022, primarily to get more involved in the LIS community and meet other new professionals with an interest in Information Literacy. Teaching information literacy skills is my favourite
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The fourth edition of Icepops (Icepops 2023) will be held at the University of Glasgow at the Advanced Research Centre on Thursday 20th July 2023. It will form part of a festival of copyright events running from 19-21 July in partnership with CREATe (UK Copyright and Creative Economy Centre) at the University of Glasgow. We have long been admirers of
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The LILAC Committee are pleased to announce that the final remaining places for LILAC 2023 have been released. The draft programme has also been published, you can download it from our website. LILAC will be taking place at The University of Cambridge, Wednesday 19th to Friday 21st April. To book your place go to the LILAC website, you will need to register as a member or login to
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The Information Literacy Group (ILG) is delighted to welcome Ellen Nierenberg, Librarian at Inland Norway University for an online webinar on the 21st February 2023. Ellen is a research fellow in information literacy at UiT The Arctic University in Norway (Tromsø). Having successfully defended her PhD thesis in November 2022; Ellen is sharing the results
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The Journal of Information Literacy is pleased to announce the inaugural Ross Todd Award for Outstanding Research, a biennial award designed to recognise research that has been published in the Journal of Information Literacy. Dr Ross Todd, who passed away in 2022, was a founding member of the Journal of Information Literacy and served on
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