There’s still time to make a nomination for the 2024 Information Literacy Award and apply for the Student Award. 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 […]
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What is your role in the committee? I am a new member of the ILG New Professionals Sub-committee. When did you join and why? I joined at the end of 2023. My previous career was as a primary teacher, where I championed information literacy against a fast-evolving internet that offered ‘cut and paste’ homework authored
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What is your role on the committee? I am a member of the ILG Sub-Committee for New Professionals. When did you join and why? As a New Professional in the industry, I’m always looking for new ways to meet other information professionals, and combined with my passion for Information Literacy, this role was perfect! I
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The CONUL Teaching and Learning Committee invite you to attend their 2024 Annual Seminar! This year, the seminar is titled “Defining ‘AI’ in Teaching & Learning: the role of libraries in Access and Inclusion; Academic Integrity; and Artificial Intelligence” Friday 1st March 2024 9:30am–4pm Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland The seminar will look at
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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Nominations for the 2024 Information Literacy Award open in the new year. The award is open to all practitioners, researchers and academics working in the information literacy field in the UK, both individuals and teams, and recognises excellent practice. You can nominate colleagues or self-nominate, so why not start thinking about which person, team, project
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What is your role on the Committee? I am the Public Libraries Representative. When did you join and why? I joined in December 2023. I attended the European Conference of Information Literacy earlier in the year as a speaker, during which I met some lovely people there who turned out to be Committee members. A
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A brand-new issue of the Journal of Information Literacy (JIL) is out this week: Vol. 17, No. 2 (2023). It’s fully open access, so you can browse all the research articles, project reports, and book reviews. Editor-in-Chief, Alison Hicks, introduces the issue, and explains the need for information literacy to explore new approaches: Stay in our lane?
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Mobile phone debates in school continue heating up, as recent governmental guidance from the Department for Education (DfE, 2023) recommends bans across English schools to alleviate distraction and discipline issues. While such swift prohibition seems an easy fix, the policy directive appears a knee-jerk response lacking thorough consultation with key education experts (Norden, 2023). Outright
What is your role in the committee? I am a new member of the ILG New Professionals Sub-committee. I am still getting settled but I am hoping to update the information in the New Professionals web page and help the rest of the committee members with anything and everything! When did you join and why? I joined
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