A new collection of health resources is available to students, offering information they can trust. The collection has been put together by the Patient Information Forum (PIF) as part of their work within the National Year of Reading to help young people find the information they need to take care of their health at university […]
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This week has seen the publication and launch of a landmark new report from the Arts Council England on’The Role of the Public Library in Combating Misinformation and Disinformation: a Review and Action Plan’. This work is important as in part it is based on a national survey of public library staff working to address
Thank you to TDNet for contributing this blog post. The Information Literacy Challenge We live in a time of unprecedented information access and complexity. The digital information ecosystem has become increasingly difficult to navigate for researchers, professionals, and students across every domain. Despite a wealth of meticulously researched scholarly publications and other trusted sources, the
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Like everyone, members of the ILG committee were upset and shocked by the recent riots across UK towns and the rise of the far right and racist organisations which play into people’s fears and worries about issues in Britain. It was heartening to see Louis Coiffait-Gunn CILIP CEO’s statement about the damage done to Spellow
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As LILAC 2024 approaches, we are giving our event sponsors the opportunity to write a guest post and contribute to the current conversations in information literacy. Our full list of LILAC sponsors can be seen at this link. First up are Aislinn Marmion and Jakob Aure from Keenious, who have written about how Keenious can
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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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If you are a Twitter user, or at least keeping half an eye on the news, you may have noticed that Twitter appears increasingly broken. Thanks to some baffling decisions by the Landlord of Mars, core functionality of the site is steadily eroding. There is also an increasing sense that it is no longer a
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Thanks to the University of Sheffield Library (Helen Moore and Maria Mawson, Faculty Librarians) for allowing us to repost this blog in relation to Open Access Week. In this May 2021 blog post we addressed the issues surrounding the provision of textbooks, issues not caused by the pandemic but certainly magnified during that time. We’re
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Thanks to Mobeena Khan for this review of the Games Based Learning Event she attended as a BAME (Black and Minority Ethnic) bursary winner. My name is Mobeena Khan and I am an Information Skills Librarian at London South Bank University. My background is in public libraries with a focus on stock and reader development.
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Helping organisations understand the importance of trusted, evidence-based information that people can access and understand has been at the core of my working life. I have been involved with health information for over a decade, working in the private sector, NHS England and now the Patient Information Forum (PIF). It is a great time to
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