The Annual General Meeting of the CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) will take place online on Tuesday 9th June at 12:00pm-13:30pm (BST) using Teams. As an added bonus we are including presentations from two of our LILAC 2026 speakers, for our members who weren’t able to attend LILAC (or just couldn’t get to all the […]
The Container Conundrum Online, everything looks like a website. In a pre-internet context, information containers were easier to interpret at a glance. You could literally feel the physical difference between a newspaper and a scholarly book. But online, those sensory and embodied experiences are muted and flattened in a browser window. Online, a magazine article,
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The University of Liverpool’s Libraries, Museums and Galleries is set to host an international online conference, bringing together experts, educators and researchers from around the world to explore the rapidly evolving landscape of Artificial Intelligence. The AI Online Conference 2026, delivered via Microsoft Teams from 9am to 4.45pm BST (UTC+1) on Friday 24 April, 2026 will feature contributions
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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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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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I am sure you will all join us in welcoming the new Associate Editors of the Journal of Information Literacy! In this blog post, Yucong, Sarah, Yvonne, and Charlotte tell us a little bit about themselves, their professions, and their interests. Congratulations and good luck to you all! Yucong Lao I am an Associate Editor
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The LILAC Committee is pleased to announce that bookings for LILAC 2026 are open. LILAC will be taking place at the University of Sheffield, 30 March – 1 April 2026. We can’t wait to see everyone again for what we think is shaping up to be a great conference programme – with inspirational keynote presentations and
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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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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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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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