Each year the CILIP Information Literacy Group offers awards in Information Literacy : the Information Literacy Award and the Digital Award for Information Literacy.
The former is open to all practitioners, researchers and academics working in any sector in the information literacy field within the United Kingdom. The winning individual or team will receive £500 for personal use and £500 for their nominated charity. The latter recognises an individual or group who develop the best new digital educational resource for promoting information literacy. The winner will receive £500 for personal use and £500 for their nominated charity.
The 2019 nominations have been announced and the prizes will be awarded to the winners at the LILAC conference dinner at the University of Nottingham next month.
Information Literacy Award 2019
The shortlisted nominees for this award are:
- Karen Hardman, Lorna Thomson & Louise Minta (Resource Librarians, Bury College)
- Dr Charles Inskip (Associate Professor, University College London)
- Professor Annemaree Lloyd (Social Science Researcher, University College London)
- Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian in Residence, University of Edinburgh)
- Newcastle University Library Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) Liaison Team
- Darryl Toerien (Head of Libraries and Archives, Oakham School, Rutland)
- Open University Library’s Live Engagement Team
Digital Award for Information Literacy 2019
The shortlisted nominees for this award are:
- Book Runner (Samantha Clarke, Becky Collins & Darren Flynn, University of Coventry)
- CamGuides, Cambridge University Libraries and IL Network (Helen Murphy)
- Critical Thinking at University: An Introduction (MOOC) (Michelle Schneider and Jiani Liu, University of Leeds)
- Newcastle University Library’s Online Learning Resources (Terry Charlton)
- Pre-entry Information and Digital Literacy Tutorials (PEIDLT) (Library Learning Services Unit, University of Sheffield)
- Service Transformation eLearning Project (STEP) (Tracey Pratchett, Wayne Troake & Mandy Davis (Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), Sarah Lewis & Tracey Geddis (Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust) and Michelle Maden (Independent Information Consultant).
Best of luck to all of the nominees this year!
Find out more about the LILAC Information Literacy conference