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Injecting doubt into inoculation metaphors – Alison Hicks, University College London

Vaccination is, unsurprisingly, on all our minds right now. From Moderna and Sputnik to the newly coined idea of vaccine imperialism, jabs (or shots) are gumming up the airways as well as our conversations with friends and family. We can’t even escape the topic at work, as my colleague, Geoff Walton, demonstrated in his most […]

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Information Literacy Group vacancy for Training Officer

Leave a Comment / News / Dan Pullinger / 09/05/2021

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). 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 no remuneration related to

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The Leading Light FestivIL 2021 Award

Leave a Comment / Events, News / Louise Minta / 06/05/2021

The last 12 months have been challenging and unprecedented; so we decided to run the information literacy awards a little differently this year too. It became apparent that an on-campus LILAC wouldn’t be possible for 2021, so the online event FestivIL by LILAC has been created to support the information literacy community this year. This online

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PIL Update: Discussion questions for “Reading in the Age of Distrust”

Leave a Comment / Comment, Research / Louise Minta / 05/05/2021

The CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) and the LILAC Conference are delighted to have been enlisted as Champions of the Project Information Literacy initiative, “The PIL Provocation Series”. As a PIL Provocation Series Champion, I’m delighted to stop by and share these “Discussion questions for “Reading in the Age of Distrust”, our latest PIL Provocation Series essay, written by none

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Online Weekly Seminars on Fake News & Misinformation

Leave a Comment / Events / Emma Burnett / 29/04/2021

Shining a Light in the Post-Truth Era Starting on 29th April, a series of free online 1 hour weekly seminars are running on Fake New and Misinformation. These are being hosted by LIR, a user group within Ireland’s HEAnet libraries. You can find out more information and book your place on the LIR Group’s website.

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Parliament for Academic Librarians training session

Leave a Comment / Events / Emma Burnett / 28/04/2021

Reposted from the LIS-Information Literacy list post by Anne-Lise Harding. Parliament for Academic Librarians – support researcher engagement with Parliament – 20th May 2021, 10:00 – 11:00am The Knowledge Exchange Unit (KEU) in UK Parliament runs training sessions for different research audiences to support connections and collaboration between Parliament and the research community. On 20th

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Young people and technology

Leave a Comment / Comment / Emily Selvidge / 23/04/2021

Jacqueline Geekie is the CILIP Information Literacy Group’s rep for public libraries. She is also the Information Literacy and Learning Librarian for Aberdeenshire Libraries. In this blog post, she reflects on two events that she has attended online, each broadly focussing on young people and technology. I recently attended two virtual events which were

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Creating Knowledge 2021

Leave a Comment / Events / Emily Selvidge / 22/04/2021

The Nordic conference, Creating Knowledge, is taking place on 3rd and 4th June 2021. This conference was originally meant to be in Tromsø last year but was postponed and is now going to be held online. The keynote speakers include the Information Literacy Group’s Chair, Jane Secker. Jane will be speaking about “Frames, models and

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Become a reviewer for the Journal of Information Literacy (JIL)

Leave a Comment / News / Emily Selvidge / 22/04/2021

The Journal of Information Literacy (JIL) is recruiting peer reviewers for research articles submitted to the journal. JIL is a diamond/platinum open access journal dedicated to publishing research across many areas of information literacy, including higher education, schools, health care, employment and government. It publishes the work of academics and practitioners and, as such, relies on experts

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We’re recruiting! New roles on our Comms Team

Leave a Comment / News / Dan Pullinger / 21/04/2021

The CILIP Information Literacy Group currently has a number of vacancies on its revamped Communications Team, and is recruiting now! We are looking for three dynamic and committed individuals to join our team of volunteers and help us make further exciting developments to our communications activity across a range of platforms, including this website, Twitter, Linkedin, YouTube, and more.

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Injecting doubt into inoculation metaphors – Alison Hicks, University College London

Information Literacy Group vacancy for Training Officer

The Leading Light FestivIL 2021 Award

PIL Update: Discussion questions for “Reading in the Age of Distrust”

Online Weekly Seminars on Fake News & Misinformation

Parliament for Academic Librarians training session

Young people and technology

Creating Knowledge 2021

Become a reviewer for the Journal of Information Literacy (JIL)

We’re recruiting! New roles on our Comms Team

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