In this blog post, Sarah Pavey, the CILIP Information Literacy Group Schools’ co-rep, reports back on the second meeting of the BRIDGE Project. Her report from the first meeting is also available to read on the Information Literacy Group’s website. Stéphane Goldstein (InformAll) and myself (SP4IL) continued our journey with the BRIDGE project (BRIDGE, 2022) […]
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By Pip Divall: Health Sector Rep, CILIP Information Literacy Group and Clinical Librarian Service Manager, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust NHS Health Education England (HEE) have recently released the first in a series of e-learning modules on critical appraisal on the E-learning for Healthcare website. A series of eight modules is planned, including an introduction, and
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Applications for LILAC’s Information Literacy Award and Student Award are now open. Information Literacy Award The CILIP Information Literacy Group and the Information School at the University of Sheffield are proud to offer an award for achievement in the field of information literacy (IL). The award is open to all practitioners, researchers and academics working
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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the CILIP Information Literacy Group committee as our new Training Officer. Applicants should have experience of committee work (not necessarily with CILIP), and be based in the UK. Please consult the Training Officer role description for more details on what is involved. Please note that this is a voluntary position, and there is
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A new issue of the Journal of Information Literacy has been published today, 6 December 2022. You can access the new issue on the Journal of Information Literacy website. The new issue includes articles on academic librarians’ teaching roles; a faculty-focused model of information literacy; project reports and conference updates. The Journal of Information Literacy
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What information literacy activity have you been doing that the community would be interested to hear about? How have you innovated in your information literacy teaching practice where you are? How have you collaborated with others to deliver information literacy content? These are just some questions that you could reflect upon as you think about
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October is Health literacy month1. Health literacy is one of the parts of the information literacy definition, and in recent years, it has become increasingly clear how important an understanding of health research and reporting is to all of us. The onus is not just on the consumer of the information to understand the message,
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The New Review of Academic Librarianship is an international journal that publishes reviews, research, critiques and exemplar case studies on substantive topics relevant to those providing library and information services to academic communities. The themed issue for 2023 will be Diversifying, decentring and decolonising academic libraries in which we hope to cover the broad topic
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In April, two members of the ILG New Professionals subcommittee attended the 3 day LILAC conference in Manchester. Katie Wise and Frankie Marsh discuss what they enjoyed, learned and will take away from the conference. What was your favourite thing about LILAC? Frankie: My favourite thing was meeting and talking to people in person! For
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An interesting opportunity has arisen via the Media and Information Literacy Alliance (MILA) to undertake a comprehensive review of information literacy from 2005 onwards. Please read on for further details. This post has been republished with permission from MILA and the original post is available on the MILA website. The Media and Information Literacy Alliance
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