LILAC: Thasya Elliott winner of Student award

The winner of the 2012 LILAC student award (sponsored by the CILIP CSG Information Literacy Group) was Thasya Elliott.  Thaysa is a Learning Resource Centre Assistant at Haringey Sixth Form Centre and is studying on the MA Information Management course at London Metropolitan University. The award was judged this year by Susie Andretta (London Metropolitan University) and […]

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New Editor-in Chief and Copy Editors for JIL announced

The CSG Information Literacy Group are pleased to announce the appointment of a new Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Information Literacy, Dr Jane Secker.  Jane was a founder member of the LILAC conference, and as conference officer for the group she was responsible for devising the academic programme for the past 8 years.  She has

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Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism: An FE Perspective

Thursday 24 May 2012, 10.45 – 15.15 Vision West Notts, Ransom Hall, Mansfield *Lunch will be supplied* iParadigm would like to invite you to attend a unique FREE event to learn more about Turnitin and how it can be used as an effective tool in addressing plagiarism. It is aimed at new and existing instructors

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Bookings are now open for the Elearning Update

Theme: The “ADDIE Model” – alive and well Check out: https://sites.google.com/site/elearningatbase/ The 5th Elearning Update, will take place at the “Emperors Palace” near Johannesburg International Airport, South Africa on 1, 2 and 3 August 2012. It will contain a selection of formal refereed papers, informal papers and invited papers. There is still time to submit

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Missing Link: Making the Connection Between IL and excellent student experience

by Rebecca Mogg – Membership Officer I was offered the opportunity to attend this one day conference at Birmingham City University on 19 March and help out on the CSG Information Literacy Group stand during lunch and coffee. A great deal for me as I got to sit on most of the presentations at this

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Project on information literacy Open Educational Resources

The CILIP CSG-Information Literacy group are delighted to be partnering with UNESCO to collaborate on a new project to highlight information literacy open educational resources in the UK. Jane Secker (LSE) and Nancy Graham (University of Birmingham) are representing the group. With this aim we are conducting a short survey of librarians to gather information

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International conference on emerging technologies in academic libraries 2012: abstract deadline 15 April

International conference on emerging technologies in academic libraries 2012 – 1-3 October 2012, Trondheim, Norway emtacl12  is an international conference for academic librarians, information professionals, academic staff, students, library system developers and suppliers, among others. The aim is to provide answers to the following questions: What can academic libraries do to address change? How can we

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