Our Health Sector representative Katie Smith, reflects on the recent webinar ‘Think like a teacher: Pedagogical skills for librarians’ with Neena Shukla Morris. Have you ever delivered training and felt like an imposter? Or you love the teaching part of your job but you’ve not received any training in how to do it? The HLG […]
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The LILAC Committee currently have an exciting opportunity to join our conference organising team. We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to recruit into the role of External Relationships Manager. For a full description and person specification for this role please visit the LILAC website [lilacconference.com]. The closing date for applications is Sunday 18
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Thank you to TDNet for contributing this blog post. The Information Literacy Challenge We live in a time of unprecedented information access and complexity. The digital information ecosystem has become increasingly difficult to navigate for researchers, professionals, and students across every domain. Despite a wealth of meticulously researched scholarly publications and other trusted sources, the
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Thank you to University College London for contributing this blog post. For many of us who work in Higher Education, the reappearance of leaf buds and migratory birds also marks the start of dissertation season; that period when students begin to lay the groundwork for the research that forms the culmination of their MA studies.
Thank you to Facet Publishing for contributing this blog post. Information Literacy is a critical skill in today’s fast-paced digital world. CILIP defines it as “the ability to think critically and make balanced judgments about any information we find and use. It empowers us as citizens to reach and express informed views and to engage
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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.
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Rhian Whitehead-Wright, Vicky Grant, Tomás Rocha-Lawrence and Courtney Wood explore their “messy” workshops, held in the library at the University of Sheffield, as a means of liberating the library space and what libraries means to their users. The team delivered their own messy workshop at LILAC 2024 and reflect on their session here. At the
One of the LILAC bursary winners, Zoe Johnson, Subject Librarian from University of Huddersfield, shares her LILAC experience. I recently had a day at the information literacy (LILAC Conference) which was a great opportunity to catch up with old colleagues (Jess, Penny, Nic and Andrew). I attended two interesting talks from the current AHRC-RLUK Professional Practice Fellows, one
As LILAC 2024 approaches, we are giving our event sponsors the opportunity to write a guest post and contribute to the current conversations in information literacy. Our full list of LILAC sponsors can be seen at this link. First up are Aislinn Marmion and Jakob Aure from Keenious, who have written about how Keenious can
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Conferences are a great way to network with professionals, learn from others and have some fun. But the first time you attend a conference can be nerve wracking, especially if you’re new to the profession. With LILAC 24 coming up very soon, we asked the New Professional Committee how they felt at their first conference
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