This webinar is the first in a series provided by the CILIP Information Literacy Group in support of the Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC). These webinars are primarily aimed at LILAC 2016 conference speakers and delegates. This webinar is presented by Alan Carbery, Associate Library Director at Chaplain College, Vermont.
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Nominations are invited from all sectors for the prestigious Information Literacy Awards 2016, which will be presented at the Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) in Dublin on March 22nd. Established in 2008, these prestigious awards honour those special people who are making a significant contribution to information literacy within any sector. Information Literacy AwardThis award, sponsored by
Information Literacy Awards 2016 – now open for applications! Read More »
Emma Coonan, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Literacy (JIL), is thrilled to let you know that volume 9(2) is now live. You’ll find a full list of contents below, followed by some reflections from Emma on the experience of editing her first issue. Articles Can playing Minecraft improve teenagers’ information literacy? Sandra Bebbington, Andre
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Posted on behalf of Nancy Graham, Chair of the CoPILOT sub-group As some will no doubt already know, Jorum, the learning object repository hosted by Jisc, is being retired. Some of you will have uploaded your information literacy open educational resources (OER) onto the site (or linked to locally hosted ones) and you will need to
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A report by Jane Secker, Chair of the CILIP Information Literacy Group, on the European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL), which took place on 19-22 October, 2015, in Tallinn, Estonia. Two weeks ago, I attended the European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL), the third I have been fortunate enough to attend. ECIL 2015 was held in
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If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you may remember that the Information Literacy Group sponsored a TeenTech Research & Information Literacy Award earlier this year. You may also recall that TeenTech’s Founder, Maggie Philbin, made a guest appearance at LILAC. If you are interested in finding out more about TeenTech and the way
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A report by the Chair of the CILIP Information Literacy Group, Jane Secker, on the Austrian National Libraries Conference (Österreichischen Bibliothekartag), held in Vienna on September 15-18, 2015. The conference was held at the University of Vienna, which is celebrating its 650th birthday, and attended by over 900 librarians. The theme of the conference roughly translated
Information literacy takes a Viennese waltz! Read More »
Dr Jane Secker, Chair of the CILIP Information Literacy Group and Copyright and Digital Literacy Advisor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, for her exceptional contribution to advancing the field of information literacy over the past ten years.
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What is your role on the committee? I am the Marketing Officer and am also an editor for www.informationliteracy.org.uk When did you join and why? I joined in summer 2010, when the IL Group was still a sub-group of the Community Services Group. I was looking for an opportunity to get involved in a professional
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What is your role on the committee? I’m the Training Officer. When did you join and why? I joined in December 2013. I’d attended the LILAC conference and benefitted from IL Group training events, so when the opportunity came up I recognised I’d have a lot to gain from being involved with the group. At
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