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Health Literacy Month: campaigning for better health outcomes

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Health Literacy Month: campaigning for better health outcomes The first of October marks the start of #HealthLiteracyMonth, a month-long campaign to raise awareness of health literacy issues and promote techniques to improve our understanding of health information.  What is health literacy? The US Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (2020) defines personal health literacy […]

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Upcoming events: Information as a Discipline: what’s the difference?

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Thu 24 Oct 2024 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM BST / Online (Zoom)Information as a Discipline: what’s the difference? Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2024 is approaching, and with it we have an international panel session with Dr. Karen Kaufmann (Assistant professor, School of Information, University of South Florida, USA), Bill Johnston (activist and retired academic, Scotland), Dr

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All Change Ahead for School Librarians: The Labour Party’s Education Policy and its Potential Impact

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Sarah Pavey, our School Librarian representative, looks at how the new Education Policy may impact school librarians. Following the 2024 UK general election, the Labour Party now will be putting the pledges in its manifesto into practice. Indeed, it has laid out a series of ambitious aims for education reform. While not explicitly mentioning school

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We’re recruiting! New Events Officer role

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The CILIP Information Literacy Group currently has an exciting new vacancy for the role of Events Officer and is recruiting now! The closing date for applications is Friday 19th July 2024. We are looking for a committed, organised, and dynamic individual to work with the CILIP Information Literacy Group and shape how the we manage and organise

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JIL at 50: Celebrating IL’s milestone anniversary!

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Alison Hicks talks us through the Journal of Information Literacy’s 50 year celebration if Information Literacy. I’m pleased to announce that the Journal of Information Literacy has joined the Information Literacy Group and the New Professionals Group in celebrating fifty years of information literacy with the publication of its newest special issue! Over a year

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Sign up for “Preparing Future Librarians for Instruction and Advocacy: A Panel Discussion”

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We are excited to share an announcement from Jane Hammons of Ohio State University, as the team announce that the first of their follow-up conversations after Celebrating 50 Years of Information Literacy: A Panel Discussion has been scheduled: Preparing Future Librarians for Instruction and Advocacy: A Panel Discussion. A description and registration information is below. All

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Beneath the Algorithm: Examining AI’s Grasp of Information Literacy

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By Sarah Pavey In today’s digital age, being information literate is more critical than ever. But can artificial intelligence (AI) language models be truly information literate themselves? That’s the question I explored by posing a series of questions to several leading AI chatbots: Claude, Pi, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot. Their responses provide fascinating insights into

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