The LILAC Committee and CILIP Information Literacy Group are pleased to announce that the call for papers for the 2018 Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) is now open. LILAC 2018 will be taking place from 4th-6th April 2018 in Liverpool, and will be hosted jointly by librarians at The University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University. LILAC welcomes […]
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The Public and Mobile Libraries Group (PMLG) and Health Libraries Group (HLG) have joined forces to organise a workshop on ‘Health Literacy Skills and Partnership Working for Public and Health Libraries’. The provision of access to health information has become a key to public libraries. This event will provide practical advice and hands-on sessions aimed at supporting health
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The CILIP Conference 2017 will take place in Manchester on July 5th and 6th, with information literacy a prominent theme at this year’s event. On day one of the conference, Jane Secker, Chair of the CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG)< and Senior Lecturer at City University, London, and Chris Morrison, Copyright and Licensing Compliance Officer, University of Kent, will
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The feature conference for this year’s Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week will take place in Jamaica from 24th to 27th October. The theme is “Media and Information Literacy in Critical Times: Re-imagining Ways of Learning and Information Environments”. The call for papers is now open, with a submission deadline of 15th July. Global MIL Week takes place
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Aston University Library will be running a free Teachmeet on the theme ‘Supporting online learners, what works? A discussion of innovative methods in providing distance learners with information literacy and library skills’. The Teachmeet will take place at Aston University Library on Wednesday 12th July from 1pm-4pm. This event is sponsored by the CILIP Information
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The Innovation, Inspiration and Creativity Conference (i2c2) will be held in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, between 13th and 15th November 2017. The final call for talks and workshops for the conference is 12 midnight on 31st May 2017. The conference is looking for people that can contribute their experiences and knowledge whatever level they are at.
The Copyright Cortex, a new online resource on copyright and digital cultural heritage, will be launched at a special event at the British Library from 5-7pm on Tuesday, June 20th, 2017. The resource has been produced through collaboration between Queen’s University Belfast and CREATe at the University of Glasgow, with the support of CILIP – the Library and Information
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The next #uklibchat topic taking place on 6th June is Fake news: the role of libraries and staff in supporting information literacy. This is very timely in light of the CILIP and ILG Facts Matter campaign and the recent ILG response to the inquiry into fake news, as well as that it is taking place just before
The CILIP Information Literacy Group is pleased to share details of their upcoming Research Day. It will be held on 5th June, 2017 at CILIP Headquarters, London. The Information Literacy Group offers funds totalling £20,000 for high quality research through an annual bursary scheme. There are two rounds of funding given out in July and December
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UUK / Guild HE Copyright Summer Event The Information Literacy Group is sponsoring a one day workshop aimed at university copyright officers or specialists, hosted by Universities UK and GuildHE Copyright Working Group. The day will consider the relationship between licences offered to the HE sector and copyright exceptions. Chaired by Professor Ronan Deazley, from the School of
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