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Learning to be compliant: The role that fear plays within information literacy teaching

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Trigger Words: Mental Health, Anxiety, Shame Over the last few years, considerations of mental health and wellbeing have become particularly important within library work. In the UK, this focus is often driven by statistics that show the high proportion of young people who have a probable mental health problem (Young Minds, n.d.). More specifically, anxiety […]

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Vacancy on the CILIP Information Literacy Group Committee: Training Officer

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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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New issue of the Journal of Information Literacy available

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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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The Open University awards Dr Jane Secker Honorary Degree for exceptional contribution to education and culture

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At the Brighton Centre Graduation ceremony on 4th November 2022, Dr Jane Secker was recognised for the exceptional contribution she has made to advancing the field of Information Literacy (IL) and copyright education. She was presented with the Honorary Doctorate by Selena Killick, the Associate Director at the Open University Library. Jane is one of

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The covid effect: how has the pandemic affected student behaviour? – Laura Woods

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Now we are past the midpoint of the autumn term, and the initial rush of inductions and information literacy introductory classes that make up most of an academic librarian’s life at this time of year are starting to subside, it’s got me in a reflective mood. Due to some medical issues I was still working

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How Gen Z is using TikTok to search for information and what it means for information literacy

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In case anyone reading lives a blissfully social-media-free life, TikTok is a social media app made up of short videos created by its users. It started out as mainly videos of things like dances, stunts, and pranks, but now has videos on pretty much everything under the sun. Like other social media, the content a person

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Writing a presentation proposal for LILAC 2023

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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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WHO calls for multi-sector partnerships to tackle misinformation in non-communicable disease – Sophie Randall

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How do we tackle the scourge of health misinformation in non-communicable disease? Through novel partnerships between nation states, the social and digital media industries and civil society, according to a new WHO toolkit on tackling misinformation in non-communicable disease. Google’s own figures show there were more than a billion health related searches a day by

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Sun, Sea, Sangria ….and information literacy – Sarah Pavey

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Being part of an international research team is indeed an incredible opportunity and Stéphane Goldstein (InformAll) and myself (SP4IL) felt honoured to be invited to join an Erasmus proposal consortium to consider transmedia products to enable information literacy teaching in primary schools. The resulting successful bid to the European Union resulted in the formation of

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LILAC 2023 bursary places

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Applications for LILAC 2023 conference bursaries are now open. To have a truly engaging conference, we believe we need delegates who bring a variety of perspectives and backgrounds. The LILAC conference is therefore offering 5 free places for people from/ working in the following under-represented communities and sectors in the UK: Ethnic minority backgrounds Further Education

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