The Annual General Meeting of the CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) will take place online on Tuesday 9th June at 12:00pm-13:30pm (BST) using Teams. As an added bonus we are including presentations from two of our LILAC 2026 speakers, for our members who weren’t able to attend LILAC (or just couldn’t get to all the […]
News of some excellent forthcoming workshops with the editors of JIL… You’re Probably Already Doing Research: Designing and Conducting a Research Project – Friday 12th June, 1-2:30pm This 90-minute workshop is designed for practitioners who are interested in starting or getting back into empirical research. It will go over the process of idea generation,
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The Container Conundrum Online, everything looks like a website. In a pre-internet context, information containers were easier to interpret at a glance. You could literally feel the physical difference between a newspaper and a scholarly book. But online, those sensory and embodied experiences are muted and flattened in a browser window. Online, a magazine article,
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The annual LILAC conference is upon us, and unfortunately this writer won’t be attending. I’ve been perusing the programme like a kid looking through a misted toyshop window, wiping away the condensation from the glass with my woollen mittens and wishing I was inside, warm and overwhelmed with the options of wooden railways, licenced figurines
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The University of Liverpool’s Libraries, Museums and Galleries is set to host an international online conference, bringing together experts, educators and researchers from around the world to explore the rapidly evolving landscape of Artificial Intelligence. The AI Online Conference 2026, delivered via Microsoft Teams from 9am to 4.45pm BST (UTC+1) on Friday 24 April, 2026 will feature contributions
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Would you like to have a chat with a fellow colleague in the library world? After successfully running this event before, the Information Literacy New Professionals group are accepting participants for our again. This is a great chance to network, and connect with the wider library community. To sign up, please follow this link: https://forms.gle/Y8x4ZCqWH56BbTAW7 If
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Attending the LILAC conference for the first time earlier this year showed me that it is crucial for librarians across all sectors to develop our information literacy practice right now. It also demonstrated how much the connections and learning that come out of the conference can help us to do this. As an NHS librarian,
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What is your role in the committee? I am a member of the ILG New Professionals sub-committee. When did you join and why? I joined in August 2025. I was first introduced to the concept of ‘information literacy’ during my master’s degree and was fortunate enough to attend LILAC on a student bursary which was
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What is your role in the Committee? I am a member of the Information Literacy Group’s sub-committee for New Professionals. When did you join and why? I joined in August 2025. In my role, I teach information literacy to undergraduates and postgraduates at a university, and I am particularly interested in how students interact with
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The Annual General Meeting of the CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) will take place online on Wednesday 21st May at 12pm using Teams. The group’s Annual Report for 2024/25 will be formally presented at the meeting. Date: Wednesday, May 21st Time: 12.00 midday (BST) Venue: Online, Teams Attendance at the AGM is free and is
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