This year’s CILIP Conference is taking place in the beautiful Brighton Dome from 12th to 13th July. As a CILIP Special Interest Group, the Information Literacy Group will have a stand in the exhibition area, where you can come and chat to some of our fabulous committee members, and also pick up some of our stylish freebies. Who’s […]
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The Information Literacy Group’s LIS rep, Dr Geoff Walton, has sent us details of a new information and digital literacy module being offered at Northumbria University from this September. A new module for a new programme – MSC Information Science (Library Management) at Northumbria University, starting this September. This new module will enable postgraduate students
Rebecca Jones, CILIP Information Literacy Group’s Schools representative, reports below on judging entries for the TeenTech Award finals. The CILIP Information Literacy Group, in partnership with the TeenTech initiative, sponsors an award for 11-16 year olds that recognises excellence in research and information literacy. On Monday 20th June the finals of the TeenTech Awards took place
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Anne-Lise Harding, CILIP IL Group’s Further Education (FE) representative, writes below on the evolution of the FELTAG agenda. The FELTAG Report and its resulting actions provide a national strategic impetus for developing FE students’ digital literacy and exploring online and blended delivery methods – key priorities for IL colleagues in the FE sector. FELTAG stands for Further Education Learning Technology
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Do you have an information literacy research idea in mind and need some funding to make it happen? Read on… The CILIP Information Literacy Group seeks to fund high quality research through an annual bursary scheme. Bids of up to a maximum of £10,000 are invited from IL Group members. We are seeking imaginative proposals which
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Would you benefit from attending the European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL) in October 2016? Good news! The CILIP Information Literacy Group is offering a bursary to cover: the full conference fee £70 accommodation for 3 nights (£210) a flight up to the cost of £250 additional expenses of up to £100 to cover any additional travel and meals
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As the EU Referendum draws near, Stéphane Goldstein (CILIP IL Group’s Advocacy and Outreach Officer and Executive Director of InformAll) examines how information (il)literacy has a key role to play in UK voters’ ability to sort fact from fiction ahead of the crucial vote. In less than a week, the UK electorate will be called upon to reach what is arguably
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To maintain and develop an active, high-impact IL research community, the Information Literacy Group funds up to £10,000 for high quality research projects through an annual bursary scheme. One such project “Learning, lending, liberty? Can school libraries be engines for youth citizenship?” explored the role of school libraries in the wider school environment, including citizenship education. The project identified how Scottish
A new issue of the Journal of Information Literacy, the open access journal of the CILIP IL Group, has just been published. As ever, it includes the latest in IL research, plus conference reports and book reviews. The full contents are listed below. Articles Instructor perceptions of student information literacy: comparing international IL models to
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New, updated information about information literacy in the health sector is now live on the CILIP IL website. Dr. Marc Forster, Health Sector representative on the CILIP Information Literacy Group, explains what information literacy means for health libraries. Marc explains the role of the information professional in supporting IL and there are examples of IL
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