Ellie Downes, Graduate Library Trainee at Aberystwyth University, reports on a successful TeachMeet, which was sponsored by the CILIP Information Literacy Group. The 2016 Aber LibTeachMeet held at Aberystwyth University was a great success. The subject of this get together was ‘How do libraries make you more employable?’ one of the hot button topics faced […]
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Rebecca Jones, CILIP Information Literacy Group’s Schools representative, reports below on judging entries for the TeenTech Award finals. The CILIP Information Literacy Group, in partnership with the TeenTech initiative, sponsors an award for 11-16 year olds that recognises excellence in research and information literacy. On Monday 20th June the finals of the TeenTech Awards took place
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Anne-Lise Harding, CILIP IL Group’s Further Education (FE) representative, writes below on the evolution of the FELTAG agenda. The FELTAG Report and its resulting actions provide a national strategic impetus for developing FE students’ digital literacy and exploring online and blended delivery methods – key priorities for IL colleagues in the FE sector. FELTAG stands for Further Education Learning Technology
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CILIP’s Information Literacy Group and the Multimedia, Information and Technology Group (MmIT) invite you to join them for a day-long conference of seminar talks and activities from digital literacy experts at the University of Liverpool in London on Friday 5th August 2016. Are you currently involved in developing, supporting and delivering digital literacy skills in
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Do you have an information literacy research idea in mind and need some funding to make it happen? Read on… The CILIP Information Literacy Group seeks to fund high quality research through an annual bursary scheme. Bids of up to a maximum of £10,000 are invited from IL Group members. We are seeking imaginative proposals which
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The LIS-Copyseek community, with support from the CILIP Information Literacy Group, will be holding a Copyright Colloquium with a focus on copyright education on Wednesday 20th July at the University of Greenwich. The event is intended to be an opportunity to share experience and learn from each other on how best to provide the right message regarding
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Would you benefit from attending the European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL) in October 2016? Good news! The CILIP Information Literacy Group is offering a bursary to cover: the full conference fee £70 accommodation for 3 nights (£210) a flight up to the cost of £250 additional expenses of up to £100 to cover any additional travel and meals
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As the EU Referendum draws near, Stéphane Goldstein (CILIP IL Group’s Advocacy and Outreach Officer and Executive Director of InformAll) examines how information (il)literacy has a key role to play in UK voters’ ability to sort fact from fiction ahead of the crucial vote. In less than a week, the UK electorate will be called upon to reach what is arguably
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This month sees a national celebration of lifelong learning in the form of the Festival of Learning 2016 (previously Adult Learners’ Week). Organisations across England hold events and ‘have-a-go’ activities from 1 May – 30 June to inspire people of any age and background to embrace learning and its power to affect positive change in their
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To maintain and develop an active, high-impact IL research community, the Information Literacy Group funds up to £10,000 for high quality research projects through an annual bursary scheme. One such project “Learning, lending, liberty? Can school libraries be engines for youth citizenship?” explored the role of school libraries in the wider school environment, including citizenship education. The project identified how Scottish
