CILIP IL Group and Tinder Foundation Digital Literacy TeachMeet events

The CILIP Information Literacy Group is joining forces with the Tinder Foundation to host two events focused on digital inclusion and developing digital literacies. The events will bring together public library colleagues with IL practitioners in Higher Education (HE) and Further Education (FE) to share experience and knowledge around teaching digital literacies.  The CILIP IL Group are […]

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Report on “Innovative Learning: Driving Educational Change” event

Rebecca Mogg, Deputy Chair of the CILIP Information Literacy Group, has kindly provided a report on the Innovative Learning: Driving Educational Change event that took place at the Manchester Conference Centre on Tuesday, December 8th, 2015. Being a librarian, the vast majority of events I attend are for librarians and these are usually focused on information

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Report on “Play, Games and Information Literacy” workshop

Allison Jones, Subject Librarian at UWTSD Carmarthen, has kindly provided a report on the “Play, Games and Information Literacy” workshop, sponsored by the CILIP Information Literacy Group, that took place in Leeds on Monday, November 23rd, 2015. Always keen to learn new skills and spice up my information literacy sessions, I booked onto the “Play, Games and

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CILIP IL Group committee appoints new members

The CILIP Information Literacy Group would like to thank everyone who responded to our recent call for applications to join the committee. We are delighted to announce that the following colleagues have now joined the committee:   Advocacy and Outreach Officer: Stéphane Goldstein Stéphane is Business Manager and Research Consultant at the Research Information Network (RIN). He

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New issue of Journal of Information Literacy

Emma Coonan, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Literacy (JIL), is thrilled to let you know that volume 9(2) is now live. You’ll find a full list of contents below, followed by some reflections from Emma on the experience of editing her first issue. Articles Can playing Minecraft improve teenagers’ information literacy? Sandra Bebbington, Andre

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Free Library TeachMeet at University of Huddersfield

Andrew Walsh, Training Officer for the CILIP Information Literacy Group, provides details of a free Library TeachMeet event, which will take place on Tuesday, 23rd February 2016 at the University of Huddersfield. A group of librarians from the University of Huddersfield are organising a TeachMeet for librarians (and people in other learning support roles if you want to

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An Estonian immersion in Information Literacy: a copyright geek reflects one month on

Chris Morrison, Copyright and Licensing Compliance Officer at the University of Kent, has very kindly allowed us to reproduce his excellent recent blog entry describing his reflections on this year’s European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL), which took place on 19-22 October, 2015, in Tallinn, Estonia. In thinking how I might sum up my experiences of attending

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Exciting opportunity for IL research!

UPDATE: Deadline for CILIP IL Group Research Bursary applications extended to January 1st, 2016 Do you have an information literacy research idea in mind and need some funding to make it happen? The CILIP Information Literacy Group provides funds of up to £10,000 per proposal for high quality research through an annual bursary scheme. This funding is to support

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The retirement of Jorum – the national learning object repository

Posted on behalf of Nancy Graham, Chair of the CoPILOT  sub-group As some will no doubt already know, Jorum, the learning object repository hosted by Jisc, is being retired. Some of you will have uploaded your information literacy open educational resources (OER) onto the site (or linked to locally hosted ones) and you will need to

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