The update below has been provided by Stéphane Goldstein. The Media and Information Literacy Alliance (MILA) has been pursuing its mission to foster collaborations, not least to help develop the evidence base in information literacy (IL) and media literacy. At the end of 2022, MILA commissioned a project, funded by CILIP and the CILIP Information […]
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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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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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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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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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We are pleased to let you know that the call for presentations for LILAC 2024 is now open. LILAC: The Information Literacy Conference will take place from 25–27 March 2024 at Leeds Beckett University. LILAC welcomes proposals which address information literacy from all sectors and contexts. In 2024 we invite you to present on any
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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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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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The Information Literacy Group committee has released a statement to outline its position on IFLA’s recent decision to select Dubai as the venue for the World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) 2024. You can find the full text below. ************************************************************************************* The Information Literacy Group (ILG) committee welcomes CILIP’s statement regarding IFLA’s selection of Dubai as
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