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How can we improve our information literacy offerings in Further Education? Part 2

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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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AI chat tools and information literacy – Laura Woods

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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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Learning to be compliant: The role that fear plays within information literacy teaching

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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

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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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How Gen Z is using TikTok to search for information and what it means for information literacy

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In case anyone reading lives a blissfully social-media-free life, TikTok is a social media app made up of short videos created by its users. It started out as mainly videos of things like dances, stunts, and pranks, but now has videos on pretty much everything under the sun. Like other social media, the content a person

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How can we improve our information literacy offerings in Further Education?

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My name is Jo and I am new to the ILG, having been swooped on whilst attending LILAC at Easter. I think they were desperate! I am the Library manager – official, rather wordy, title is Team Leader for Learning Services (Resources) – at Truro and Penwith College in Cornwall, where I split my time

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