“Librarians developing digital literacies” event – book now!

Event: Librarians developing digital literacies Venue: Hadyn Ellis Building, Cardiff University, Cathays Park, Cardiff. CF24 4HQ. Date: Friday, July 17th, 2015, 10:00-16:00 A free event (refreshments and lunch provided) kindly sponsored by CILIP Cymru Wales and the CILIP Information Literacy Group. We are pleased to invite you to attend this exciting event organised by librarians from Wales Higher Education Libraries […]

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CILIP IL Group sponsors place on new Leadership Programme

The CILIP Information Literacy Group is delighted to be sponsoring a place on CILIP’s new Leadership Programme, which has been designed to create additional leadership capacity both within the profession and within the CILIP membership. The recipient of our sponsorship, Claire Sewell, explains why she applied for the programme, and how she hopes to benefit from

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A canny conference: LILAC 2015

Sam Aston, LILAC committee member and Teaching and Learning Librarian at the University of Manchester, provides a short summary of this year’s conference. The Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) took place in Newcastle, or “The Toon” to those that live there, on April 8-10, 2015. Not only did we receive a very warm welcome from Newcastle

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Event summary: Information Literacy at the interface: learning from practice in the classroom and employment

In May, ILG teamed up with SLA Europe for two special events, a networking evening and half-day workshop, both focusing on Information Literacy in the workplace. An event review of the networking evening with Nancy Graham (LSE), Stéphane Goldstein (Research Information Network) and Ian Hunter (Shearman and Sterling) can be found over on the SLA

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IL and Wikipedia in schools – tender opportunity

This has been reposted with permission from DigiLit Leicester. The original post can be found at http://www.digilitleic.com/?p=889 We are really excited about our latest project, which will produce games based resources to enhance Year 9 learners (13-14 years old) engagement with, and understanding of, Wikipedia.01. The tender is open until 30 June 2015, and interested

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Report from the Pedagogy for Librarians course

The CILIP Information Literacy Group’s sponsored Pedagogy for Librarians course took place last week. This report has been reposted with permission and thanks from Laura Woods’ blog. The original post can be found here. Last week (1-5 June) I was lucky enough to attend a week-long residential course at the Northern College, funded by the

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IL Group at the CILIP Conference 2015

This year’s CILIP Conference takes place on 2nd-3rd July in Liverpool, and representatives from the Information Literacy Group will be attending the conference and running a stand. One of the conference strands is devoted to Information Literacy, and the keynote speakers include: professor and author R. David Lankes; author, journalist and activist Cory Doctorow; and human rights

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Innovative library inductions across the sectors – TeachMeet

The CILIP Information Literacy Group is sponsoring this teachmeet, which will be held at the University of Derby’s Buxton campus on 25 June 2015, 12:00 – 15:40. Sign up here. The teachmeet aims to bring together library staff from across the education sectors to: Explore the common theme of library induction. Facilitate the sharing of innovation and good

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