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Guest Post: Choose your own lecture: an interactive approach to student engagement

4 Comments / Case studies / IL website administrator / 16/05/2020

Laura Woods is Subject Librarian for Computing & Engineering at the University of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK. The below is a case study Laura had intended to present at the LILAC conference this year, before it was unfortunately cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.. In the autumn term of 2019, I decided to take […]

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Your help needed: Survey on IL Teaching

Leave a Comment / News / IL website administrator / 13/05/2020

Our Chair, Jane Secker, along with one of our school library reps, Sarah Pavey, are carrying out some research into the shift to online teaching that has taken place in UK education in relation to information literacy teaching. We would be very grateful if you could complete this short survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1XRlZtoPKxqYLywCZhfJP_oOlQmLXRs4R0jAMx8bkAoA/edit We will write up

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CILIP COVID-19 Workforce Survey

Leave a Comment / News / Dan Pullinger / 07/05/2020

CILIP: the library and information association has launched the COVID-19 Workforce Survey in order to understand how the disruption of COVID-19 and coronavirus is impacting the library, information and knowledge management workforce. The responses will be used both to improve CILIP’s support for the sector and to inform advocacy on behalf of the profession with

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Information Literacy Awards winners revealed

Leave a Comment / News / Dan Pullinger / 01/05/2020

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Information Literacy Awards for 2020! Due to the unavoidable cancellation of LILAC 2020, this year’s award results are being announced online. However, the winners of both awards will be invited to attend a formal presentation at LILAC 2021 in Manchester. Winner of the Information Literacy Award for

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Icepops 2020 – UK Copyright Literacy conference postponed

Leave a Comment / News / Emily Selvidge / 30/04/2020

Icepops 2020, the UK Copyright Literacy conference, due to be held on 7th July 2020 in Cardiff, has been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the event has been rescheduled for 22nd June 2021, again in Cardiff, and all bookings remain valid. The keynote speakers have also been retained for the 2021 date. For

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Approaches to Teaching Information Literacy in Practice – online training session

Leave a Comment / Events / Louise Minta / 22/04/2020

Like the rest of the world, the CILIP events team have been adapting to a new way of working, including adapting their planned events to different formats or revised dates, and adding new content such as online events. Originally due to take place in Sheffield, Approaches to Teaching Information Literacy in Practice will now be delivered via

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How to Spot Fake News – COVID-19 Edition

1 Comment / News, Resources / Louise Minta / 21/04/2020

IFLA has produced a COVID-19 edition of their popular How To Spot Fake News infographic, with a stronger focus on some of the issues encountered around the pandemic – especially the need to check with other sources – and recognition of the fact that much news today spreads through conversations on social media. “With fighting

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Now is the time: Information literacy and sharing information about COVID-19

Leave a Comment / Comment / Dan Pullinger / 16/04/2020

The Information Literacy Group are delighted to have commissioned this blog post on the importance of information literacy and its relationship to health literacy. Ruth Carlyle was one of the keynote speakers at LILAC 2019, which took place in April 2019 at the University of Nottingham, and is extremely well placed to write this post.

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Covid-19 and information literacy: a selective list of useful resources

Leave a Comment / Resources / Dan Pullinger / 09/04/2020

The CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) are keen to help share useful resources relating to information literacy in the context of the Covid-19 outbreak. With this in mind, Stéphane Goldstein, Advocacy and Outreach Officer for ILG, has compiled an initial list of resources that we have published on a dedicated page on this site. The list

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Webinars: copyright and online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic

Leave a Comment / Events / Dan Pullinger / 09/04/2020

A series of weekly webinars hosted by the Association of Learning Technology (ALT) started on Friday 20th March in response to queries, largely from those working in Higher Education, related to copyright and online learning following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the shift to online learning. The webinars, hosted by Jane Secker and

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Guest Post: Choose your own lecture: an interactive approach to student engagement

Your help needed: Survey on IL Teaching

CILIP COVID-19 Workforce Survey

Information Literacy Awards winners revealed

Icepops 2020 – UK Copyright Literacy conference postponed

Approaches to Teaching Information Literacy in Practice – online training session

How to Spot Fake News – COVID-19 Edition

Now is the time: Information literacy and sharing information about COVID-19

Covid-19 and information literacy: a selective list of useful resources

Webinars: copyright and online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic

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