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What being on the LILAC Committee has done for me…
The LILAC Committee currently have two exciting opportunities to join their conference organising team. They are looking for motivated and enthusiastic individuals to recruit into the roles of Venue Coordinator and Sponsorship Development Manager. With this in mind, committee member Jess Haigh has kindly given us an insight into her experiences on the LILAC team.
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Share your LILAC Stories and reflections
LILAC: The Information Literacy Conference will be 20 years old in 2025. Although informally we are aware of the impact of the conference on individuals, we want to tell the story of how this conference and the community it represents has affected change, both on an individual and institutional level. We want to collate stories
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Reviewing the reviews: Writing tips and tricks for the Journal of Information Literacy
Alison Hicks, the Editor of the Journal of Information Literacy shares writing tips and tricks for submitting to the Journal of Information Literacy This spring marks three years since I took over as JIL Editor. During this time, I feel honoured to have worked with the editorial team on projects designed to improve JIL’s physical
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How can we improve our information literacy offerings in Further Education? Part 2
In our latest ILG sector rep post, Further Education Rep Jo Lapham follows up on a previous post she wrote about ways to improve information literacy offerings in FE. As a library manager at an ever-expanding multi-campus further education college, my working days are beyond busy, but mid-way through Spring term, I started to find
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Watch out! The robots are coming to school – Sarah Pavey
What has defined 2023 so far in schools? It has to be the advent of Chatbot GPT (OpenAI, 2023) the artificial intelligence (AI) programme that will write everything for you. Is this the kiss of death to essay composition? Will all teachers use it to save time thinking of pertinent phrases in student reports? Should
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AI chat tools and information literacy – Laura Woods
Since ChatGPT, a chatbot based on an artificial intelligence large language model, was launched in November 2022, the academic world has been abuzz with speculation about what the availability of tools like this could mean for the future of education. ChatGPT makes it extremely simple to generate convincing responses to prompt questions – which raises
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Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year from the Information Literacy Group!
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year from the Information Literacy Group. We hope you have a wonderful break and we look forward to catching up in 2023, maybe at the LILAC Conference! The photo is from our December ILG and LILAC Committee meeting.
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Learning to be compliant: The role that fear plays within information literacy teaching
Trigger Words: Mental Health, Anxiety, Shame Over the last few years, considerations of mental health and wellbeing have become particularly important within library work. In the UK, this focus is often driven by statistics that show the high proportion of young people who have a probable mental health problem (Young Minds, n.d.). More specifically, anxiety
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The covid effect: how has the pandemic affected student behaviour? – Laura Woods
Now we are past the midpoint of the autumn term, and the initial rush of inductions and information literacy introductory classes that make up most of an academic librarian’s life at this time of year are starting to subside, it’s got me in a reflective mood. Due to some medical issues I was still working
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