Attention all Northerners! If you will be in or near Leeds at the start of November, Leeds Libraries has a series of unmissable events taking place. 4-9th November 2024 is the Libraries in Leeds Festival, a celebration of all Leeds libraries – from public libraries to health libraries and archives, and everything in between. Two […]
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The Information Literacy Group are thrilled to announce that we are co-hosting a Parliamentary reception on 21st October 2024. The event aims to connect policymakers with key library sector stakeholders and allies to showcase the power of libraries to create opportunities for everyone. The event is jointly hosted by CILIP, the Library and Information Association;
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The call for presentations for LILAC, the UK’s annual information literacy conference, opens on 7th October 2024. The Information Literacy Group couldn’t be more excited to see what this year’s submissions, especially as 2025 marks the 20th year of LILAC! We are particularly keen to hear from newer voices in information literacy, as well as
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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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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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Like everyone, members of the ILG committee were upset and shocked by the recent riots across UK towns and the rise of the far right and racist organisations which play into people’s fears and worries about issues in Britain. It was heartening to see Louis Coiffait-Gunn CILIP CEO’s statement about the damage done to Spellow
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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
In this post, Information Literacy Group Co-Chair Laura Woods shared some reflections on the half-way point of the 50th year or Information Literacy. As anyone who has been admiring our lovely 50 Years of IL logo at the top of this site will know, 2024 marks 50 years since the coining of the term “Information
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This year, the concept of Information Literacy turns 50! To mark the occasion, we would like to call for contributors to our “Information Literacy: 50 years in 50 words” campaign. We would like contributors to send us a 50 word summary about Information Literacy – from how they have been impacted by working within the
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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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