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Collective reflections on LILAC 2025: Community, Connections and Collaborations.

Collective Reflections on LILAC 2025: Community, Connections and Collaborations

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Thanks to Heather Lincoln, Victoria Rees, Eleanor Roberts, Tatiana Usova and Anonymous contributors for this blog post. At the closing session of LILAC 2025, held at Cardiff University, delegates were invited to reflect on their experience of the conference. They were asked to write about what surprised them, made them feel something, or to write […]

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Media & information literacy and the school curriculum: a call to action

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Thank you to Stéphane Goldstein, our MILA and outreach representative, for this blog post.  A coalition of information and education organizations [1], including the CILIP Information Literacy Group, has issued an urgent call for media and information literacy (MIL) to become a mandatory part of England’s school curriculum, warning that young people are being left unprepared

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Webinar review - Think like a teacher: Pedagogical skills for librarians

Webinar review – Think like a teacher: Pedagogical skills for librarians

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Our Health Sector representative Katie Smith, reflects on the recent webinar ‘Think like a teacher: Pedagogical skills for librarians’ with Neena Shukla Morris. Have you ever delivered training and felt like an imposter? Or you love the teaching part of your job but you’ve not received any training in how to do it? The HLG

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ILG New Professionals Committee vacancies

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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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Missed out on LILAC this year? Catch two of the speakers presenting at the Information Literacy Group AGM!

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The Annual General Meeting of the CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) will take place online on Wednesday 21st May at 12.00pm-1.30pm using Teams. As an added bonus this year we are including presentations from two of our LILAC 2025 speakers, for our members who weren’t able to attend LILAC (or just couldn’t get to all

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Search Smarter resources from ILG – from AI bots to referencing

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We have recently updates our Search Smarter guides, and as they were so popular at LILAC, we wanted to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to share and benefit from them. As such, we have uploaded the PDFs to each guide here, all licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.  We hope

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Information literacy in the digital archive: Empowering students to think critically and interrogate information

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AM specialises in digitised primary sources and the technology that brings them to life for education and research. With AM you can search content from hundreds of published thematic databases, or manage, publish and share digital assets from your special collections to unlock their full research value. Learn more about AM.   In an age of

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CILIP Information Literacy Group:  Events Officer Role

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We are excited to announce that we looking for an Events Officer here at the Information Literacy Group!  CILIP Information Literacy Group:  Events Officer Role Role title: Events Officer  Deadline for applications: Monday 16th June We are looking for a committed, organised, and dynamic individual to work alongside the existing Events Officer on the CILIP

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Navigating the information wilderness with education and advanced technology

Navigating the Information Wilderness with Education and Advanced Technology

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Thank you to TDNet for contributing this blog post.  The Information Literacy Challenge We live in a time of unprecedented information access and complexity. The digital information ecosystem has become increasingly difficult to navigate for researchers, professionals, and students across every domain. Despite a wealth of meticulously researched scholarly publications and other trusted sources, the

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