By Elizabeth Brookbank, ILG North American Rep Book banning, driven mainly by the group Moms for Liberty (recently designated as an extremist group by the Southern Poverty Law Center), continues to be a huge headline for libraries in the U.S., especially school libraries. (See my June news round up post for more background). The number …
The CILIP Information Literacy Group is pleased to host an online roundtable to commemorate the UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2023. We are excited to have two experts, from Portugal and US, to share insights on the vital topics of media and information literacy in relation to relevant topics of disinformation and fake …
New ILG event: Misinformation and Critical Literacies – Roundtable Read More »
If you are a Twitter user, or at least keeping half an eye on the news, you may have noticed that Twitter appears increasingly broken. Thanks to some baffling decisions by the Landlord of Mars, core functionality of the site is steadily eroding. There is also an increasing sense that it is no longer a …
Social media for university libraries – where next? Read More »
Episode 4 of Chatting Info Lit is now live on Soundcloud, Apple and Spotify! In episode 4, Ella Wharton (University of Nottingham) chats with Corin Peacock (Arts University Bournemouth) about Corin’s project looking at the LGBTQ+ community and self tracking, undertaken as part of a University of Sheffield research internship. Corin talks about their experience …
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 …
Information Literacy Group AGM 2023 The Annual General Meeting of the CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) will take place online on Tuesday, May 2nd at 12pm using Zoom. The group’s Annual Report for 2022/23 will be formally presented at the meeting. Date: Tuesday, May 2nd Time: 12.00-13.00 (BST) Venue: Online, Zoom Attendance at the AGM …
716 authors and counting: Reflecting on national and institutional information literacy trends through the lens of the Journal of Information Literacy. The Journal of Information Literacy (JIL) will be moving hosting platforms later this Spring. We have been grateful to have been hosted by Loughborough University since our inception in 2007 but the time has …
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What is your role in the committee? I am one of the new members of the ILG New Professionals Sub-committee. When did you join and why? I have always loved the topic of information literacy, and during the pandemic, I found the ILG website a really helpful location for finding resources while I was settling …
Introducing the ILG New Professionals – Ella Wharton Read More »
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year from the Information Literacy Group. We hope you have a wonderful break and we look forward to catching up in 2023, maybe at the LILAC Conference! The photo is from our December ILG and LILAC Committee meeting.
Thanks to the University of Sheffield Library (Helen Moore and Maria Mawson, Faculty Librarians) for allowing us to repost this blog in relation to Open Access Week. In this May 2021 blog post we addressed the issues surrounding the provision of textbooks, issues not caused by the pandemic but certainly magnified during that time. We’re …
Unleashing academic freedom: the case for open educational resources Read More »
