The definitions & models section of the website has been completely restructured and updated to reflect the latest thinking around information literacy, and related literacies. A New Curriculum for Information Literacy (ANCIL), digital literacy, metaliteracy and web literacy are covered for the first time. Information on more established definitions and models, such as the SCONUL Seven […]
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The CILIP Information Literacy Group is delighted to be sponsoring a place on CILIP’s new Leadership Programme, which has been designed to create additional leadership capacity both within the profession and within the CILIP membership. The recipient of our sponsorship, Claire Sewell, explains why she applied for the programme, and how she hopes to benefit from
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This has been reposted with permission from DigiLit Leicester. The original post can be found at http://www.digilitleic.com/?p=889 We are really excited about our latest project, which will produce games based resources to enhance Year 9 learners (13-14 years old) engagement with, and understanding of, Wikipedia.01. The tender is open until 30 June 2015, and interested
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The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has been working hard for the past few years alongside media and information professionals to develop frameworks for media and information literacy (MIL), and they are a fascinating organisation to work with. The CILIP Information Literacy Group and its CoPILOT sub-group were lucky enough to be
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The House of Lords Digital Skills Committee published its report “Make or Break: The UK’s Digital Future” in February. On behalf of members, CILIP submitted evidence to the Committee last September. The CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) and InformALL have been taking a look at its recommendations and have found that, whilst it makes an important contribution
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ARLG West Midlands and CILIP West Midlands Member Network invite you to attend their joint one-day conference, “Librarians as Teachers”, on June 10, 2015 at Conference Aston in Birmingham. The event, sponsored by the CILIP Information Literacy Group, will feature are a range of speakers from across the sectors, including HE, FE, Schools and Health
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Jacqueline Geekie, the CILIP Information Literacy Group’s Public Library Representative, offers her thoughts on the recent Sieghart panel independent report on public libraries. I have been reflecting on the Sieghart Report and how this fits in with my roles as Information Literacy and Learning Librarian for Aberdeenshire Libraries and as the Public Library Representative on
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The CILIP Information Literacy Group, in partnership with the TeenTech initiative, is delighted to announce a new award for 11-16 year olds that will recognise excellence in research and information literacy. The Research and Information Literacy Award will celebrate how well young people can dispel the ‘Google Generation’ myth and show that they can be truly
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The CILIP Information Literacy Group Annual General Meeting will take place on Thursday, April 9th, 2015, 13:15-13:45, during LILAC 2015 in Newcastle. The venue for the AGM is the Armstrong Recital Room, in the Armstrong Building, University of Newcastle. Attendance at the AGM is free and open to all ILG members. ILG members who have not booked
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The CILIP Information Literacy Group and InformAll submitted a joint response to the July 2014 UK Digital Skills Task Force’s interim report, Digital Skills for Tomorrow’s World, which was authored by Maggie Philbin. The joint response argued that information literacy (IL) provides a vital underpinning to the acquisition of digital skills, and to the reduction in digital
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