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Tracking Information Literacy Undercurrents in Public Libraries

Hi everyone – my name is Drew Feeney and I am the Public Libraries Representative for CILIP’s Information Literacy Group. I have almost twenty years’ experience working as a Librarian in the public sector in the west of Scotland, and I am currently also a PhD student at Edinburgh Napier University looking at the role […]

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Misinformation and Critical Literacies – Roundtable

For UNESCO’s Global Media and Information Literacy Week, the Information Literacy Group held an online roundtable about Misinformation and Critical Literacies.  The first speaker was Dr Inês Amaral, an Associate Professor in the Communication Section of the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Information at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. Dr Amaral put forward the

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New ILG event: Misinformation and Critical Literacies – Roundtable

The CILIP Information Literacy Group is pleased to host an online roundtable to commemorate the UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2023. We are excited to have two experts, from Portugal and US, to share insights on the vital topics of media and information literacy in relation to relevant topics of disinformation and fake

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MILA Information literacy impact framework

This post by Dr Peter Cruickshank, Dr Bruce Ryan, and Marina Milosheva (Edinburgh Napier University) has been republished with permission from MILA. The original post is available on the MILA website. We are proud to announce the release of the results of a review of literature on information literacy (IL) impact. We believe it is the

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Call for proposals: Information literacy and society

An interesting opportunity has arisen via the Media and Information Literacy Alliance (MILA) to undertake a comprehensive review of information literacy from 2005 onwards. Please read on for further details. This post has been republished with permission from MILA and the original post is available on the MILA website. The Media and Information Literacy Alliance

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The Media and Information Literacy Alliance: a timely initiative

How might information literacy be better recognised as a vital contribution to society? This is a question which the Information Literacy Group, among others, has been pondering for years. We have been acutely aware that, though librarians have long recognised the importance of IL, in the UK (and particularly in England) it has been more

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Webinar on new Media and Information Literacy Alliance

From 24 – 31st October 2021, UNESCO celebrate the 10th Global Media and Information Literacy week. It’s a major occasion for stakeholders to review and celebrate progress achieved towards Media and Information Literacy for All. In the UK, CILIP and the Information Literacy Group have been asking ourselves how might information literacy be better recognised

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