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Lacking LILAC inspiration? We’re here to help!

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.

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