Want to submit an abstract for LILAC but lacking inspiration? Fear not! ILG’s committee members have gathered their thoughts and produced a list of topics to choose from.
Take your pick, and remember we are also peer-reviewing abstracts this year!
General
- Cross-sector collaboration, e.g. health libraries partnering with public libraries for health information literacy initiatives.
- Any library research using qualitative methods (e.g. interviews, focus groups) to explore information literacy.
Library and information science
- Presentations that are based on student dissertation research
- Presentations from recent graduates in their first professional post that have implemented practices based on their dissertation research
- Presentations that are based on someone’s journey through the Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in HE.
School libraries
- School to University transition – who should be involved?
- How early should you start teaching information and digital literacy?
- How do you teach IL and DL if it does not feature in assessment?
- Traditional classification or genre/topic based shelving (see a great blog post from Sara Pavey, our School Libraries rep here)
- Supporting EPQ projects
- Developing IL competencies in the International Baccalaureate School
- Effect of the mobile phone ban in English schools in developing IL and DL competencies
Health
- Using AI when teaching information literacy to medical and health science students (e.g. nurses, midwives, radiologists, physiotherapists)
- Novel ways to improve engagement with using research databases and institutional catalogues by healthcare staff and medical students
- Teaching healthcare staff and students digital information literacy skills, including critically evaluating sources such as websites and AI-generated information.
- Approaches in supporting dyslexic and neurodivergent learners
- NHS projects and partnerships with public libraries to support health literacy development
- Collaborating between academic and health libraries to support students
Advocacy
- Challenging conspiracy theories and fake news and efforts to advocate for IL in the public space – how can librarians get involved in educating their friends, family and the wider public with a growing interest and recognition of the spread of mis and dis information?
- Advocating for Information Literacy in the Age of AI – how the rise of Generative AI presents an opportunity to rethink assessments, but also to help people focus on process rather than product
Government
- IL in corporate learning and continual professional development
- Championing facts and information
- Opportunities and challenges in using AI in the government sectors as users and educators.