Icepops (International Copyright-Literacy Event with Playful Opportunities for Practitioners and Scholars)

Icepops: International Copyright-Literacy Event with Playful Opportunities for Practitioners and Scholars

On Tuesday 3rd April the first International Copyright-Literacy Event with Playful Opportunities for Practitioners and Scholars (Icepops) was held at the University of Liverpool. This one-day event was the first satellite event run as part of the LILAC conference. Devised by Chris Morrison and Jane Secker (the UK Copyright Literacy team) and run in conjunction with the CILIP Information Literacy […]

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Teaching

Event review: Research Support Library TeachMeet at MMU

Catherine McManamon, Liaison Librarian at the University of Liverpool, has kindly provided a report on a recent Library TeachMeet event, which was hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University and sponsored by the CILIP Information Literacy Group. It was a pleasure to welcome around 30 enthusiastic librarians and information professionals to our Library TeachMeet on Research Support. A lot is

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LILAC 2018, Day 3

The final day of the 14th Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC 2018) at the University of Liverpool saw delegates enjoy a fascinating and entertaining keynote by David White, Head of Digital Learning at the University of the Arts London, on “Posthuman literacies: reframing relationships between information, technology and identity”, David’s talk explored notions of the technoself and how

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LILAC 2018 award winners announced!

This year’s information literacy award winners were announced at this year’s LILAC gala dinner celebration in April. The big winners this year came from Bolton and Lancashire! Information Literacy Award winner: Emily Hurt, Clinical Librarian  (Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) Emily won the award for her work on a high impact ILG-funded project to

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New CILIP IL Group deputy chairs appointed

Rosie Jones and Lisa Jeskins have been appointed to the role of Deputy Co-chairs of the CILIP Information Literacy Group. Rosie is the Director of Library Services and OpenLearn at The Open University and Lisa Jeskins is a freelance trainer, coach and consultant. They first worked together in 2003 at Manchester Metropolitan University Library and

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LILAC 2018, Day 2

LILAC 2018 continued yesterday at the University of Liverpool. In the morning, Ola Pilerot, senior lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS), University of Borås, delivered a stimulating keynote speech on ‘Putting theory to work in practice: Unpacking information literacy with a conceptual toolbox from library and information science’. Ola considered the

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ILG launch new CILIP Information Literacy definition

The CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) committee are delighted to have officially launched the new CILIP Definition of Information Literacy 2018 on Friday, April 6th at LILAC 2018 in Liverpool. ILG have been working closely with our parent organisation CILIP over the last two years to refresh the Information Literacy definition that was originally devised

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LILAC 2018, Day 1

The 14th Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC 2018) began yesterday at the University of Liverpool, with over 300 delegates in attendance. The morning’s parallel sessions set the scene for the conference, covering a wide range of topics from introducing a digital literacy framework at an HE institution to teaching referencing using Lego. LILAC co-chairs

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CILIP Information Literacy Group AGM and Annual Report 17/18

The CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) Annual General Meeting will take place on Thursday, April 5th at LILAC 2018 at the University of Liverpool. The group’s Annual Report for 2017/18 will be formally presented at the meeting. Date: Thursday 5th April 2018 Time: 13.15-13.45 Venue: GFlex room, Central Teaching Hub, University of Liverpool Chair: Jane

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Media Literacy

Final report of the High Level Expert Group on Fake News and Online Disinformation

In January 2018, the European Commission set up a high-level group of experts to advise on policy initiatives to counter fake news and disinformation spread online. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), together with other expert members of the EU High Level Group on Fake News and Disinformation, subsequently delivered on March 12th, 2018 a report on

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