The CILIP Information Literacy Group is delighted to be sponsoring a place on CILIP’s new Leadership Programme, which has been designed to create additional leadership capacity both within the profession and within the CILIP membership. The recipient of our sponsorship, Claire Sewell, explains why she applied for the programme, and how she hopes to benefit from […]
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Sam Aston, LILAC committee member and Teaching and Learning Librarian at the University of Manchester, provides a short summary of this year’s conference. The Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) took place in Newcastle, or “The Toon” to those that live there, on April 8-10, 2015. Not only did we receive a very warm welcome from Newcastle
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What is your role on the committee? I am the Health Sector Rep. When did you join and why? I joined in Spring 2014. I’m interested in the information behaviour of the health and public health workforce, and I think understanding information literacy and information literacy skills is key to understanding the way in which
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In May, ILG teamed up with SLA Europe for two special events, a networking evening and half-day workshop, both focusing on Information Literacy in the workplace. An event review of the networking evening with Nancy Graham (LSE), Stéphane Goldstein (Research Information Network) and Ian Hunter (Shearman and Sterling) can be found over on the SLA
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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This year’s CILIP Conference takes place on 2nd-3rd July in Liverpool, and representatives from the Information Literacy Group will be attending the conference and running a stand. One of the conference strands is devoted to Information Literacy, and the keynote speakers include: professor and author R. David Lankes; author, journalist and activist Cory Doctorow; and human rights
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The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has been working hard for the past few years alongside media and information professionals to develop frameworks for media and information literacy (MIL), and they are a fascinating organisation to work with. The CILIP Information Literacy Group and its CoPILOT sub-group were lucky enough to be
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The Information Literacy Group are joining forces with SLA Europe to present an evening event and a half-day workshop session with cross –sector appeal. Find out more about the half-day workshop below. Event: Information Literacy at the interface: Learning from practice in the classroom and in employment When: Friday 22nd May, 09.30-13.00 Where: University of
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The Information Literacy Group are joining forces with SLA Europe to present an evening event and a half-day workshop session with cross –sector appeal. Find out more about the evening event below. Event: Information Literacy in the Workplace When: 21st May 2015, 18.00-21.30 Where: University of Liverpool in London, 33 Finsbury Square, London SLA Europe
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The House of Lords Digital Skills Committee published its report “Make or Break: The UK’s Digital Future” in February. On behalf of members, CILIP submitted evidence to the Committee last September. The CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) and InformALL have been taking a look at its recommendations and have found that, whilst it makes an important contribution
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