Back in the summer, many CILIP Information Literacy Group committee members took part in the one day IL executive briefing. All the presentations are available on the CILIP website. The introduction by the CILIP ILG Chair, Debbi Boden-Angell, can be accessed directly via CILIP IL Briefing.
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Facilitating and supporting Information Literacy (IL) activities and training for Public Library staff and users is one of the main themes for the Welsh Information Literacy Project (WILP) in Phase III. You can find out more about the previous project Phases here, including the development of an IL Framework for Wales and accredited training units
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On 14th August 2012, the CILIP Information Literacy Group is sponsoring a free workshop (11am-3pm) at the University of Birmingham to discuss how the library community in UK can facilitate the sharing of information literacy resources as open educational resources. The workshop will involve producing a way forward for how we can work together to
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The CILIP Information Literacy Group is holding a workshop day on 23rd August 2012 on presentation skills for your IL teaching. In the morning, Emily Shields will facilitate a workshop on intermediate PowerPoint, that will give you tips and tricks on how to enhance existing PowerPoint knowledge. In the afternoon Ned Potter will give you
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The latest issue of the Journal of Information Literacy (the journal of the CILIP CSG Information Literacy group) has just been published! The contents of the Journal of Information Literacy vol 6(1) include: Articles The experiences of Chinese PhD students in Australia: Encountering information literacy challenges by Jinghe Han Business information literacy teaching at different
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I introduced the controversial ‘Three spheres of information literacy’ theory at LILAC in 2010 and gave my own interpretation of their relative importance as observed from my research. This year at LILAC I asked delegates who attended my talk (20) to note how they viewed the three spheres see http://www.flickr.com/photos/humpydemon/ for pics. I then asked lis-infoliteracy
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Conference Date: 16 to 18 July 2012 Location: Sage Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK The 2012 International Plagiarism Conference celebrates ten years of pioneering research in promoting approaches to authentic assessment which place the student at the heart of the learning process. The conference programme is now available, including keynote presentations from Dr Tracey Bretag, Dr Virginia
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The Credo Reference Digital Award for Information Literacy was announced at the LILAC conference dinner. The annual award aims to recognise an individual librarian or group of librarians who develop the best new digital resource for promoting information literacy. Skills@Library Team (University of Leeds) for the Skills@Library lecturer pages. This is an extensive online portfolio
The Information Literacy Practitioner Award was announced at the conference dinner at LILAC 2012. Andrew Walsh (Academic Librarian, University of Huddersfield), won the award in recognition of his high profile achievements in promoting the use of mobile learning technologies and active/game-based learning techniques in information literacy teaching. The runner-up was Judy Atkinson (LIS Manager, Royal College of
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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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