This is the first of the CILIP Information Literacy Group‘s “meet the committee” posts. First up is Nancy Graham. What is your role on the committee? I’m the Chair of the ILG. When did you join and why? I was elected as Chair in summer 2013 and the reason I put myself forward is that […]
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Megan Wiley, University of Bristol, has produced on behalf of the SCONUL Strategy Group on User Experience and Success, some documents new information in the form of a literature review, analysing the contribution of information literacy and libraries to the development of graduate employability skills. The full literature review is available on the SCONUL website at
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Writing research proposals and publications – CILIP ILG & LIRG Venue: Charter Room East, CILIP HQ, 7 Ridgmount Street, London Date: Friday 12th September, 2014 10:00 – 16:30 Workshop outline: This one day event will introduce participants to research, writing a research proposal and writing the research up for publication once it is complete. Led
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Dr. Charles Inskip has collated both theoretical and practice-based literature from a variety of workplaces to provide an overview of the main issues around workplace information literacy. Read Dr. Inskip’s blog post and full literature review on the CILIP website at http://www.cilip.org.uk/cilip/news/information-literacy-life-not-just-good-degree
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By Richard Hopkins, Learning & Skills Librarian, University of Wolverhampton Our first Teachmeet was entitled ‘Information literacy skills and the new student. What is innovative information literacy and skills practice? And how best do we promote it?’ and was an attempt to encourage conversation on issues that were of interest to the Skills for Learning
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By Lisa Flint, Information Manager, University of Hertfordshire On Wednesday 25th June over 45 delegates including many Career and Information Professionals from academic institutions across the country were welcomed to the University of Hertfordshire (UH), De Havilland campus for an afternoon Library Teach Meet entitled ‘Information Literacy meets …Employability and Graduate Skills’. The event was
Back in May, the first European Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Forum was held in Paris, at the Headquarters of UNESCO. At this Forum, the Paris Declaration on MIL was adopted. Please visit UNESCO’s website for more information. Participants have until Thursday 10th July to comment on the Declaration. After this date, it will become
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1974 was a momentous year in many ways: The Tour de France visited the UK for the first time. However, things did not go smoothly. The World Cup was held in West Germany, who won the title. Eurovision was held in Brighton and ABBA won with Waterloo. President Nixon resigned following the Watergate scandal. Paul
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The latest issue of the Journal of Information Literacy (JIL) is now available, and includes reports on the Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC 2014) by the two Student Award winners. The Journal of Information Literacy is the international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of the CILIP Information Literacy Group, and aims to investigate information literacy (IL)
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Ffion Bell (@bibliotekaargh) has kindly provided a report on the free LibTeachMeet event that took place at Aberystwyth University earlier this month. On Wednesday 4th June 2014, a LibTeachMeet was held here at Aberystwyth University – and it went very well! In this blog post I will describe how it came about, and what actually happened on the day.
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