Not directly an IL conference, but if you would like to get the message of IL and the work you to do to a wider audience, you may consider submitting a paper to the HEA STEM conference. I am sure IL could fit into a couple of the streams listed below. The Higher Education Academy’s […]
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In an information-based economy, what skills do employers expect from university graduates, and are our graduates meeting those expectations? Many universities have referred to Information Literacy as either a graduate attribute in itself, or as an indicative example of an element contributing to other specific attributes. The University of West London Library is holding an
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LILAC 2012 will be held 11th – 13th April 2012 at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland. Further details and the call for papers are available on the LILAC website: http://lilacconference.com/WP/call-for-papers/ The themes of next year’s conference are: IL and the digital future IL research Supporting the research community Transitions: from School through to Higher Education IL
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i³ is concerned with the quality and effectiveness of the interaction between people and information and how this interaction can bring about change in individuals, organisations, communities and society. The conference will look beyond the issues of use and accessibility of technology to questions about the way people interact with the information and knowledge content
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The programme content, keynote speakers, and abstracts for LILAC 2011 which took place in April are available here. If you are tweeting or blogging about the conference please use tag #lilac11.
Research methods for business and management; 9th European Conference on Research Methodos for Business and Management; [electronic resource]; ECRM 2009 (2009) pp. 285 Millennial Students and Information Literacy: Educating for Employability by Rich, M.
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LIBER 40th Annual General Conference, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona [29 June – 2 July 2011] – “Getting Europe ready for 2020: the library’s role in research, education and society” http://bibliotecnica.upc.edu/LIBER2011/ [this website currently seems to be down. The problem will be fixed asap. Their apologies for the inconvenience. For submission of abstracts, please go
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There is a growing trend amongst UK universities to situate learning development services within libraries and learning resource centres. This development acknowledges the holistic nature of developing students’ academic skills. Searching for high quality sources of information sits alongside effective reading and note taking skills; students writing at university need to understand referencing and plagiarism
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There is a Librarian “TeachMeet” (idea from http://latnetwork.spruz.com/) in Huddersfield on 9th Feb 2011. This will be a really informal opportunity for librarians who teach to get together to share tips and experiences. If you come, be prepared to give a short (5 min at most) talk to share an aspect of your teaching. There
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The information behaviour/ information literacy journal club continues in Second Life, the virtual world. All are welcome to participate (you need a SL avatar and the SL software on your computer). These are both one hour sessions with a short introduction in voice, and main discussion in text chat. *** November Journal club meeting When:
