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Dr John Crawford – Obituary from CILIP Scotland and the Information Literacy Group

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Picture (CILIP, 2018) shows John, Guy Daines and Sandra Ward CILIPS (CILIP Scotland) were saddened to learn of the passing of Dr John Crawford in February of this year. John was a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals and a former CILIP Trustee. He worked in several library sectors including secondary […]

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CILIP LGBTQ+ x ILG Panel Event for LGBTQ+ History Month

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On the 29th of February, the CILIP LGBTQ+ Network, in partnership with the Information Literacy Group, organised a panel event celebrating LGBTQ+ History month. The panel discussion provided an opportunity for speakers to highlight the role misinformation and disinformation played, and still plays a significant role in LGBTQ+ history and causes. Big changes in rights

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Tracking Information Literacy Undercurrents in Public Libraries

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Hi everyone – my name is Drew Feeney and I am the Public Libraries Representative for CILIP’s Information Literacy Group. I have almost twenty years’ experience working as a Librarian in the public sector in the west of Scotland, and I am currently also a PhD student at Edinburgh Napier University looking at the role

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Misinformation and Critical Literacies – Roundtable

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For UNESCO’s Global Media and Information Literacy Week, the Information Literacy Group held an online roundtable about Misinformation and Critical Literacies.  The first speaker was Dr Inês Amaral, an Associate Professor in the Communication Section of the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Information at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. Dr Amaral put forward the

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U.S. Libraries News – September 2023

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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

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New ILG event: Misinformation and Critical Literacies – Roundtable

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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

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Chatting Info Lit – Episode 4 Now Live

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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

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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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