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CoPILOT – Community of Practice for Information Literacy Online Teaching now formed

A new sub-group of the CILIP Information Literacy Group called CoPILOT (Community of Practice for Information Literacy Online Teaching) has been formed. The sub-group’s aim is to support and encourage the development and sharing of information literacy teaching materials as open educational resources, primarily within the UK.   The Group’s initial activities will be to establish an online space for the Community […]

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UK IL models and the ACRL IL competency standards

Want an update on what is happening in the UK in relation to IL models?  Then read Justine Martin’s report which highlights four UK models of Information Literacy and compares them with the ACRL’s Information Literacy Competency Standards.  Martin, J. L. (2013) “Learning from Recent British Information Literacy Models: A Report to ACRL’s Information Literacy

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Presentation skills for your IL teaching – 23 August 2012

The CILIP Information Literacy Group is holding a workshop day on 23rd August 2012 on presentation skills for your IL teaching. In the morning, Emily Shields will facilitate a workshop on intermediate PowerPoint, that will give you tips and tricks on how to enhance existing PowerPoint knowledge. In the afternoon Ned Potter will give you

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JIL: new issue now available

The latest issue of the Journal of Information Literacy (the journal of the CILIP CSG Information Literacy group) has just been published! The contents of the Journal of Information Literacy vol 6(1) include: Articles The experiences of Chinese PhD students in Australia: Encountering information literacy challenges by Jinghe Han Business information literacy teaching at different

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Three spheres of Information Literacy by Geoff Walton

I introduced the controversial ‘Three spheres of information literacy’ theory at LILAC in 2010 and gave my own interpretation of their relative importance as observed from my research. This year at LILAC I asked delegates who attended my talk (20) to note how they viewed the three spheres see http://www.flickr.com/photos/humpydemon/ for pics. I then asked lis-infoliteracy

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2012 International Plagiarism Conference – programme now available

Conference Date: 16 to 18 July 2012 Location: Sage Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK The 2012 International Plagiarism Conference celebrates ten years of pioneering research in promoting approaches to authentic assessment which place the student at the heart of the learning process. The conference programme is now available,  including keynote presentations from Dr Tracey Bretag, Dr Virginia

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Credo Reference Digital Award for Information Literacy – Skills@Library Team (University of Leeds) announced as winner

The Credo Reference Digital Award for Information Literacy was announced at the LILAC conference dinner.  The annual award aims to recognise an individual librarian or group of librarians who develop the best new digital resource for promoting information literacy. Skills@Library Team (University of Leeds) for the Skills@Library lecturer pages. This is an extensive online portfolio

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IL Practitioner Award – Andrew Walsh announced as winner

The Information Literacy Practitioner Award was announced at the conference dinner at LILAC 2012. Andrew Walsh (Academic Librarian, University of Huddersfield), won the award in recognition of his high profile achievements in promoting the use of mobile learning technologies and active/game-based learning techniques in information literacy teaching. The runner-up was Judy Atkinson (LIS Manager, Royal College of

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LILAC: Thasya Elliott winner of Student award

The winner of the 2012 LILAC student award (sponsored by the CILIP CSG Information Literacy Group) was Thasya Elliott.  Thaysa is a Learning Resource Centre Assistant at Haringey Sixth Form Centre and is studying on the MA Information Management course at London Metropolitan University. The award was judged this year by Susie Andretta (London Metropolitan University) and

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New Editor-in Chief and Copy Editors for JIL announced

The CSG Information Literacy Group are pleased to announce the appointment of a new Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Information Literacy, Dr Jane Secker.  Jane was a founder member of the LILAC conference, and as conference officer for the group she was responsible for devising the academic programme for the past 8 years.  She has

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