LILAC: The Information Literacy Conference will take place from 21-23 April 2027 at City St George’s, University of London and the call for presentations is now open. LILAC 2027 will include a range of refreshed presentation types to better reflect proposals. These will showcase new and different approaches to information literacy (IL) and give presenters […]
Research can sometimes feel like something other people do. In our day-to-day work we might have questions, notice patterns, or have ideas about how to improve practice. However, turning these questions and ideas into a piece of research fit for publication can feel like a much bigger step. This summer, the Journal of Information Literacy
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The LILAC call for presentations opens on 21 September 2026! If you have something you want to share with the world of libraries and information literacy, then here is your chance… The annual LILAC conference offers delegates the opportunity to share knowledge, be inspired and to make those all important contacts. We actively encourage practitioners
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The Information Literacy Group is excited to announce that we are recruiting for a host of new team members! We are looking for new members to add to our Communications team, our Events team, and our New Professionals sub-committee. These groups provide essential support to the aims and objectives of the Information Literacy Group, and
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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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