Event reviews 2024

The logo for the LILAC 2024 conference. The logo says 2024 Leeds but the number 0 is replaced with an image of an owl. A number of Leeds Beckett University’s constituent colleges at various times during their history featured the owl as their emblem, this included the City of Leeds Training College, the original occupants of Headingley Campus. Below 2024 Leeds it says LILAC: the information literacy conference. The logo is the colour lilac.

LILAC 2024: A View from Public Libraries

This post is by Ana Silva, Library Development Officer at Cambridgeshire Libraries, who was awarded a bursary to attend this year’s LILAC Conference in Leeds. I attended LILAC 2024, held at Leeds Beckett University, as one of the winners of the bursaries for under-represented groups, which include those of us working in public libraries. As […]

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LILAC 2024 report

One of the LILAC bursary winners, Zoe Johnson, Subject Librarian from University of Huddersfield, shares her LILAC experience. I recently had a day at the information literacy (LILAC Conference) which was a great opportunity to catch up with old colleagues (Jess, Penny, Nic and Andrew). I attended two interesting talks from the current AHRC-RLUK Professional Practice Fellows, one

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Event report: Information Literacy and AI roundtable

On 20th March, the Information Literacy Group hosted an online roundtable discussion on information literacy and artificial intelligence (AI). Part of our commemoration of 50 years of information literacy in 2024, this event was a well-timed opportunity to reflect on AI as the latest, but certainly not the only, challenge to how we conceive of

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