Digital literacy

2026 IL award nominations on a calendar leaf

Have you decided who to nominate for the 2026 Information Literacy Award?

Leave a Comment / LILAC / /

Nominations for the 2026 Information Literacy Award open in the new year. The award is open to all practitioners, researchers and academics working in the information literacy field in the UK, both individuals and teams, and recognises excellent practice. You can nominate colleagues or self-nominate, so why not start thinking about which person, team, project or initiative […]

Have you decided who to nominate for the 2026 Information Literacy Award? Read More »

Media and information literacy: a joint statement following the Curriculum and Assessment Review

Media and information literacy: a joint statement following the Curriculum and Assessment Review

Leave a Comment / MILA / /

Curriculum reforms will falter without media literacy funding for schools,  say 35+ experts close to the issue Over 35 organisations and experts warn that planned media literacy reforms will fail without  dedicated funding for schools The inclusion of teaching about ‘fake news and AI’ literacy in the revised curriculum for England  recently made headlines, highlighting

Media and information literacy: a joint statement following the Curriculum and Assessment Review Read More »

Transferability, Applicability, and Models of Information Behaviour by Andrew K Shenton

Transferability, Applicability, and Models of Information Behaviour

Leave a Comment / Guest post / /

This post has been written for the Information Literacy Group website by Andrew K. Shenton. You can read Andrew’s latest article in the Journal of Information Literacy here. Over the last thirty years, I have undertaken various projects that have led to the development of models of information behaviour. Many have concentrated on children and

Transferability, Applicability, and Models of Information Behaviour Read More »

Information literacy group statement on the national curriculum review

Information Literacy Group statement on the National Curriculum Review

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / /

The Information Literacy Group (ILG) supports the statement issued by the Media and Information Literacy Alliance (MILA) and welcomes the publication of the National Curriculum Review, and is encouraged to see the increased emphasis on applied knowledge areas, particularly digital literacy and media literacy. These areas are vital for young people to develop the skills

Information Literacy Group statement on the National Curriculum Review Read More »

AI and IL - an open discussion on shared practice

Upcoming event: AI and IL – An open discussion on shared practice

Leave a Comment / Events / /

Tue 16 September from 12:00PM – 1:00PM Do you want to speak with other librarians about how they are approaching AI and information literacy? More and more databases are incorporating natural language searching and AI summaries. With changes and development happening every day, each library may be approaching this situation differently. Join Ella, Jane and other

Upcoming event: AI and IL – An open discussion on shared practice Read More »

Top Tips in healthcare teaching webinar

Top tips in health teaching: a knowledge sharing workshop

Leave a Comment / Events / /

Top tips in health teaching: a knowledge sharing workshop Thursday 4th September from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Get your tickets here! Are you an NHS librarian who wants to know more about teaching literature searching, critical appraisal, and reflective practice? We are running an event for health librarians, and others who offer teaching and

Top tips in health teaching: a knowledge sharing workshop Read More »

Webinar review - Think like a teacher: Pedagogical skills for librarians

Webinar review – Think like a teacher: Pedagogical skills for librarians

Leave a Comment / Events, Health Literacy, Webinars / /

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

Webinar review – Think like a teacher: Pedagogical skills for librarians Read More »

SearchSmarter

Search Smarter resources from ILG – from AI bots to referencing

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / /

We have recently updates our Search Smarter guides, and as they were so popular at LILAC, we wanted to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to share and benefit from them. As such, we have uploaded the PDFs to each guide here, all licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.  We hope

Search Smarter resources from ILG – from AI bots to referencing Read More »

Information literacy in the digital archive: Empowering students to think critically and interrogate information

Leave a Comment / Sponsor Posts / /

AM specialises in digitised primary sources and the technology that brings them to life for education and research. With AM you can search content from hundreds of published thematic databases, or manage, publish and share digital assets from your special collections to unlock their full research value. Learn more about AM.   In an age of

Information literacy in the digital archive: Empowering students to think critically and interrogate information Read More »