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We’re recruiting! New Communications & Engagement Manager role

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The CILIP Information Literacy Group currently has an exciting new vacancy for the role of Communications and Engagement Manager, and is recruiting now! We are looking for a dynamic and committed individual to join our team and help lead further exciting developments to our communications activity across a range of platforms, including this website, Linkedin, YouTube, and […]

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Health Information Week: changes ahead and call for new project team members

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Health Information Week is changing! After consultation with stakeholders, we are moving Health Information Week to the third week of January each year. The next Health Information Week will take place from 20-26 January, 2025. What is Health Information Week? Health Information Week is a national, multi-sector campaign to promote high quality information. Previous examples

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2024 Information Literacy Award – Student Award

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There’s still time to make a nomination for the 2024 Information Literacy Award and apply for the Student Award. Information Literacy Award The CILIP Information Literacy Group and the Information School at the University of Sheffield are proud to offer an award for achievement in the field of information literacy (IL). The award is open

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Meet the Committee – Drew Feeney, Public Libraries Representative

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What is your role on the Committee? I am the Public Libraries Representative. When did you join and why? I joined in December 2023. I attended the European Conference of Information Literacy earlier in the year as a speaker, during which I met some lovely people there who turned out to be Committee members. A

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New issue of Journal of Information Literacy released

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A brand-new issue of the Journal of Information Literacy (JIL) is out this week: Vol. 17, No. 2 (2023). It’s fully open access, so you can browse all the research articles, project reports, and book reviews. Editor-in-Chief, Alison Hicks, introduces the issue, and explains the need for information literacy to explore new approaches: Stay in our lane?

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Introducing the ILG New Professionals – Eva Garcia Grau

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What is your role in the committee? I am a new member of the ILG New Professionals Sub-committee. I am still getting settled but I am hoping to update the information in the New Professionals web page and help the rest of the committee members with anything and everything! When did you join and why?  I joined

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U.S. Libraries News – September 2023

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By Elizabeth Brookbank, ILG North American Rep Book banning, driven mainly by the group Moms for Liberty (recently designated as an extremist group by the Southern Poverty Law Center), continues to be a huge headline for libraries in the U.S., especially school libraries. (See my June news round up post for more background). The number

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Take part in the Copyright Anxiety Study

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You may have heard about the new copyright research project: ‘Copyright Anxiety in UK Higher Education”. This is a collaborative project of Amanda Wakaruk and Celine Gareau-Brennan (University of Alberta), Chris Morrison and Rose Zhang (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), and Dr Jane Secker (City, University of London). The study aims to find out whether

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