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New issue of the Journal of Information Literacy available

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A new issue of the Journal of Information Literacy has been published today, 6 December 2022. You can access the new issue on the Journal of Information Literacy website. The new issue includes articles on academic librarians’ teaching roles; a faculty-focused model of information literacy; project reports and conference updates. The Journal of Information Literacy […]

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The Open University awards Dr Jane Secker Honorary Degree for exceptional contribution to education and culture

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At the Brighton Centre Graduation ceremony on 4th November 2022, Dr Jane Secker was recognised for the exceptional contribution she has made to advancing the field of Information Literacy (IL) and copyright education. She was presented with the Honorary Doctorate by Selena Killick, the Associate Director at the Open University Library. Jane is one of

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Writing a presentation proposal for LILAC 2023

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What information literacy activity have you been doing that the community would be interested to hear about?  How have you innovated in your information literacy teaching practice where you are?  How have you collaborated with others to deliver information literacy content?  These are just some questions that you could reflect upon as you think about

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WHO calls for multi-sector partnerships to tackle misinformation in non-communicable disease – Sophie Randall

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How do we tackle the scourge of health misinformation in non-communicable disease? Through novel partnerships between nation states, the social and digital media industries and civil society, according to a new WHO toolkit on tackling misinformation in non-communicable disease. Google’s own figures show there were more than a billion health related searches a day by

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Sun, Sea, Sangria ….and information literacy – Sarah Pavey

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Being part of an international research team is indeed an incredible opportunity and Stéphane Goldstein (InformAll) and myself (SP4IL) felt honoured to be invited to join an Erasmus proposal consortium to consider transmedia products to enable information literacy teaching in primary schools. The resulting successful bid to the European Union resulted in the formation of

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MILA Information literacy impact framework

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This post by Dr Peter Cruickshank, Dr Bruce Ryan, and Marina Milosheva (Edinburgh Napier University) has been republished with permission from MILA. The original post is available on the MILA website. We are proud to announce the release of the results of a review of literature on information literacy (IL) impact. We believe it is the

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Call for abstracts – Diversifying, decentring and decolonising academic libraries

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The New Review of Academic Librarianship is an international journal that publishes reviews, research, critiques and exemplar case studies on substantive topics relevant to those providing library and information services to academic communities. The themed issue for 2023 will be Diversifying, decentring and decolonising academic libraries in which we hope to cover the broad topic

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New issue of the Journal of Information Literacy!

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The latest issue of the Journal of Information Literacy, the international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal of the CILIP Information Literacy Group, is now available. The full contents of volume 16, issue 1 are listed below, with direct links to the articles: Editorial A difference that matters: Disability activism, scholarship and community Alison Hicks Research articles (peer-reviewed articles)

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Call for proposals: Information literacy and society

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An interesting opportunity has arisen via the Media and Information Literacy Alliance (MILA) to undertake a comprehensive review of information literacy from 2005 onwards. Please read on for further details. This post has been republished with permission from MILA and the original post is available on the MILA website. The Media and Information Literacy Alliance

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