We have recently updates our Search Smarter guides, and as they were so popular at LILAC, we wanted to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to share and benefit from them. As such, we have uploaded the PDFs to each guide here, all licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. We hope […]
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Save the date for Icepops 2025 (the International Copyright-Literacy Event with Playful Opportunities for Practitioners and Scholars)! This year, it will be taking place at the University of Manchester John Rylands Research Institute and Library from 9-10 September. Icepops is aimed at copyright specialists and non-specialists, librarians, archivists, curators, learning technologists, educational developers, teachers, lecturers, publishers and
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The LILAC Committee currently have an exciting opportunity to join our conference organising team. We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to recruit into the role of External Relationships Manager. For a full description and person specification for this role please visit the LILAC website [lilacconference.com]. The closing date for applications is Sunday 18
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AM specialises in digitised primary sources and the technology that brings them to life for education and research. With AM you can search content from hundreds of published thematic databases, or manage, publish and share digital assets from your special collections to unlock their full research value. Learn more about AM. In an age of
anybook.com (previously anybook.biz) is a second-hand book company that was founded in 1998, in Greenwich, in a small room sandwiched between a travel agent and a post office – which turned out to be rather handy! Over 25 years later, anybook.com is working with hundreds of libraries (mainly University libraries) across the United Kingdom and
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The Annual General Meeting of the CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) will take place online on Wednesday 21st May at 12pm using Teams. The group’s Annual Report for 2024/25 will be formally presented at the meeting. Date: Wednesday, May 21st Time: 12.00 midday (BST) Venue: Online, Teams Attendance at the AGM is free and is
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What is your role in the committee? I am a new member of the Information Literacy Group Sub-Committee for New Professionals. Joining from the academic libraries sector. When did you join and why? I completed my MA and Library and Information studies from Aberystwyth University in 2020. My background is in the visual arts, and
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We are excited to announce that we looking for an Events Officer here at the Information Literacy Group! CILIP Information Literacy Group: Events Officer Role Role title: Events Officer Deadline for applications: Monday 16th June We are looking for a committed, organised, and dynamic individual to work alongside the existing Events Officer on the CILIP
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Thank you to TDNet for contributing this blog post. The Information Literacy Challenge We live in a time of unprecedented information access and complexity. The digital information ecosystem has become increasingly difficult to navigate for researchers, professionals, and students across every domain. Despite a wealth of meticulously researched scholarly publications and other trusted sources, the
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Thank you to University College London for contributing this blog post. For many of us who work in Higher Education, the reappearance of leaf buds and migratory birds also marks the start of dissertation season; that period when students begin to lay the groundwork for the research that forms the culmination of their MA studies.
