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Randomised Coffee Trials – Participants Wanted!

Would you like to have a chat with a fellow colleague in the library world? After successfully running this event before, the Information Literacy New Professionals group are accepting participants for our  again. This is a great chance to network, and connect with the wider library community. To sign up, please follow this link: https://forms.gle/Y8x4ZCqWH56BbTAW7 If […]

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Chatting Info Lit Episode Eleven: Learning Sets at LILAC (with Laura Woods)

Episode 11 of Chatting Info Lit is now live on Soundcloud, Apple and Spotify! “I guarantee you, you have a perspective that is valuable”. In Episode 11, Laura Woods (PhD student at the University of Sheffield, Co-chair of the Information Literacy Group Committee) joins the podcast to promote action learning sets at this year’s LILAC

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Information literacy group statement on the national curriculum review

Information Literacy Group statement on the National Curriculum Review

The Information Literacy Group (ILG) supports the statement issued by the Media and Information Literacy Alliance (MILA) and welcomes the publication of the National Curriculum Review, and is encouraged to see the increased emphasis on applied knowledge areas, particularly digital literacy and media literacy. These areas are vital for young people to develop the skills

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The logo for the LILAC 2026 conference. The logo is circular with a lilac background, all text within the circle is a white colour and all images are white with a lilac outline, to show detail. At the centre of the circle there are two female figures. They are stood facing forwards but looking in different directions. They are wearing overalls and boots. They both have a cloth hanging out of a pocket and the figure on the right has goggles on her forehead. They each have one arm around the other and their other hand is on their own hip. The figures are based on the Women of Steel bronze sculpture that commemorates the women of Sheffield who worked in the city's steel industry during the First World War and Second World War. It was created by the sculptor Martin Jennings. Above the figures are the words LILAC: The information literacy conference, below the figures is the word Sheffield - all words are in capital letters. To the left of the figures is the number 20 and to the right of the figures is the number 26.

LILAC 2026 bursaries – apply now for full conference and day delegate places

Attending the LILAC conference for the first time earlier this year showed me that it is crucial for librarians across all sectors to develop our information literacy practice right now. It also demonstrated how much the connections and learning that come out of the conference can help us to do this. As an NHS librarian,

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Meet the Committee: Yasmine Mulholland

What is your role in the committee? I am a member of the ILG New Professionals sub-committee. When did you join and why? I joined in August 2025. I was first introduced to the concept of ‘information literacy’ during my master’s degree and was fortunate enough to attend LILAC on a student bursary which was

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Meet the Committee: Madeleine Williams

What is your role in the Committee? I am a member of the Information Literacy Group’s sub-committee for New Professionals. When did you join and why? I joined in August 2025. In my role, I teach information literacy to undergraduates and postgraduates at a university, and I am particularly interested in how students interact with

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Collective reflections on LILAC 2025: Community, Connections and Collaborations.

Collective Reflections on LILAC 2025: Community, Connections and Collaborations

Thanks to Heather Lincoln, Victoria Rees, Eleanor Roberts, Tatiana Usova and Anonymous contributors for this blog post. At the closing session of LILAC 2025, held at Cardiff University, delegates were invited to reflect on their experience of the conference. They were asked to write about what surprised them, made them feel something, or to write

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Search Smarter resources from ILG – from AI bots to referencing

We have recently updates our Search Smarter guides, and as they were so popular at LILAC, we wanted to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to share and benefit from them. As such, we have uploaded the PDFs to each guide here, all licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.  We hope

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