Katie Wise is a Knowledge Specialist at Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and the Health Sector ILG representative. As a health librarian, whenever I interact with clinicians as a patient, I keep an eye on how well they communicate with me and think about what advice I would give them if I was training them […]
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Alison Hicks talks us through the Journal of Information Literacy’s 50 year celebration if Information Literacy. I’m pleased to announce that the Journal of Information Literacy has joined the Information Literacy Group and the New Professionals Group in celebrating fifty years of information literacy with the publication of its newest special issue! Over a year
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Have a listen on your usual podcast player on either SoundCloud, Apple, or Spotify to the CILIP Information Literacy Group’s New Professionals Chatting Info Lit podcast – episode eight. In this special documentary episode, the group look back over 50 years of Information Literacy with guests William Badke, Moira Bent, Debbi Boden-Angell, James Elmborg, Jane Secker,
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We are excited to share an announcement from Jane Hammons of Ohio State University, as the team announce that the first of their follow-up conversations after Celebrating 50 Years of Information Literacy: A Panel Discussion has been scheduled: Preparing Future Librarians for Instruction and Advocacy: A Panel Discussion. A description and registration information is below. All
Copyright Literacy (aka Chris Morrison and Jane Secker) is delighted to announce that Icepops 2024 is now open for bookings. They have a limited number of places this year, so please do hurry if you want to secure a place. The keynote speaker will be Kyle K Courtney from Harvard University and the conference will take
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The CILIP Information Literacy Group is pleased to announce a webinar that will introduce participants to digital and information literacy frameworks and how they can be practically applied in the workplace. In the webinar we will look at defining what digital and information literacy is and what the differences are between the two. We will go
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This guest post is by Sanam Bozorgi, a teacher librarian at Arbor school in Dubai. Although I am not a big fan of Harry Potter, but in book number five, ‘The Order of the Phoenix,’ there is a real interesting example of inquiry-based learning. Unlike Dolores Umbridge’s rigid, textbook-driven approach, Harry Potter’s Dumbledore’s Army showcases
This post is by Ana Silva, Library Development Officer at Cambridgeshire Libraries, who was awarded a bursary to attend this year’s LILAC Conference in Leeds. I attended LILAC 2024, held at Leeds Beckett University, as one of the winners of the bursaries for under-represented groups, which include those of us working in public libraries. As
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In this 75-minute synchronous online panel with editors of information literacy-related publications, the presenters aim to make visible editors’ processes and expectations when reviewing submitted manuscripts. By making the publishing process more transparent, this event is intended to lower the barrier for colleagues who are interested in learning more about publishing in journals and ultimately
The Academic Liaison team at Royal Holloway, University of London are hosting a free Library TeachMeet on the theme of “introducing students to library services” on Wednesday 3 July 2024, 13:00 – 16:00, at their campus in Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX. Refreshments are being kindly sponsored by Gale. If you haven’t attended a TeachMeet before, they are informal
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