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Guest post: Creating an information literacy teaching framework

Emma Burnett, an Information Consultant at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a member of the CILIP Information Literacy Group’s Comms team, has shared a post (with permission) that was originally published on the CLA HE blog in October 2021. In this post, Emma talks about how the Royal Holloway’s Academic Liaison team created an […]

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Researching

Case study: online drop-in sessions using Microsoft Teams

Laura Woods is a Subject Librarian at the University of Huddersfield. What sort of information literacy sessions have you run during the last few months? In the autumn term of 2020, we ran a series of online drop-ins for students, using Microsoft Teams. We ran one per month, each on a specific theme: October –

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Teaching

Delivering Library Induction online for Further Education students – at Buxton and Leek College

In this guest blog post, Liz White talks about the planning involved in moving Library Induction online for FE students during the current pandemic. Liz is Assistant Academic Librarian at the University of Derby and the Further Education Sector Representative for the Information Literacy Group. Introduction As Assistant Academic Librarian at Buxton and Leek College I

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Creating an online community in a time of social distancing – guest post by Kate Grigsby

Kate Grigsby is a Liaison Librarian for the Arts and Humanities faculty at the University of Sheffield. She is also the Marketing and Communication Officer for the Information Literacy Group. Her role involves IL teaching, as well as supporting learning and research. She has previously worked in public, prison and further education libraries. Arts and

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Case study: shifting your IL teaching online – Diane Scott

Diane Scott, Library Resource Centre Co-ordinator at Hazlehead Academy in Aberdeen, introduces an online information literacy challenge for students that she created with the Google suite of tools. After completing my MSc in Library and Information Studies at RGU in Aberdeen in 2014, I worked part time in the healthcare sector at an NHS library

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Teaching

Case study: shifting your IL teaching online – Isobel Ramsden

Isobel Ramsden is a Senior School Librarian at Channing School What sort of information literacy sessions have you run during the last few months? I’ve run two 45-minute information literacy sessions for eighty Year 11 students (in groups of twenty at a time) and one 45-minute information literacy session for eleven Year 12 Geography students. I was asked to

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Case study: shifting your IL teaching online – Ian Clark

Ian Clark is a Librarian at the University of East London and supports the academic subject of Psychology. I’ve been an academic services librarian for Psychology at the University of East London for six years. As well as working with staff and students within the School, I oversee the library’s social media team, including our

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Case study: Shifting your IL teaching online – Heather Lincoln

Heather Lincoln is a Liaison Librarian at Imperial College London. She supports the academic subjects of Business, Education, Culture and Communication. What sort of information literacy sessions have you run during the last few months? I have taught plagiarism sessions to 500 Business MSc students using the flipped classroom method, which was adapted to be

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Teaching

Case study: shifting your IL teaching online – Susan Merrick

Susan Merrick is a Teacher-Librarian at ACS Egham International School in Surrey. In this case study, she discusses her experiences in delivering online information literacy support for secondary school students. What sort of information literacy sessions have you run during the last few months? I have taught online Zoom classes, both with other teachers and by myself, to

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Case study: shifting your IL teaching online – Delyth Morris

Delyth Morris is a Subject Librarian for Medicine at Cardiff University. In this case study, she discusses the opportunities and challenges she has found in delivering information literacy teaching online. Watch a short video of Delyth describing her experiences What sort of information literacy sessions have you run during the last few months? I’ve undertaken a

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