In case you missed it, a very interesting post was published on the CILIP website yesterday, about how copyright and information literacy overlap. It was written by the Information Literacy Group’s Chair, Dr Jane Secker, and Chris Morrison from the University of Kent. It has already received lots of buzz on Twitter! Jane comments: “It […]
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The CILIP Information Literacy Group offers up to £20,000 to fund high quality research through an annual bursary scheme. Bids of up to a £10,000 maximum are invited. This funding is to support practitioners (who are ILG members) to support well-framed research. Methodological strategies can be either qualitative or quantitative, or both. Approaches can
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As mentioned in our previous post about the CILIP Conference, you will be able to visit the IL Group stand (number 5 in the SIG area) and be filmed giving your top IL teaching tip. All entrants will be entered into a prize draw for a iPad mini. Competition rules: To enter, visit the CILIP
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On Monday, June 22nd, 2015, the CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) sent a team of judges to the Royal Society to take part in the TeenTech Awards. The Group Chair, Jane Secker, was joined by Rebecca Jones, Geoff Walton and Darren Flynn, who were part of a wider group of ILG committee members asked to judge a
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We’re recruiting! The CILIP Information Literacy Group Committee has a number of vacancies, which offer a great opportunity to become more involved with the work of the Group, learn new skills, network, and help advocate for information literacy. All roles are voluntary and you must be a member of ILG to apply. Please send us your CV
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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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