Digital literacy

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

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

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

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

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 »

Navigating the information wilderness with education and advanced technology

Navigating the Information Wilderness with Education and Advanced Technology

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

Navigating the Information Wilderness with Education and Advanced Technology Read More »

Mind the gap! Reframing information literacy research at University College, London (UCL)

Mind the gap! Reframing information literacy research at University College, London (UCL)

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.

Mind the gap! Reframing information literacy research at University College, London (UCL) Read More »

AI Literacy & the criticality of Public Libraries

This post is by Drew Feeney, our Public Libraries Representative Like everyone in every area of life at the moment (it seems so anyway), the advent and proliferation of generative AI platforms and their increasing adoption as go-to methods for all manner of digital engagement has left me feeling a little overwhelmed and struggling to

AI Literacy & the criticality of Public Libraries Read More »

AI and higher education teaching - April 1st, 3pm-4:30pm

AI and Higher Education teaching

The ILG are delighted to announce an upcoming event, with an opportunity to get involved! On April 1st, from 3-4:30pm, we will be running an event covering AI and higher education teaching. Generative artificial intelligence has become a massive talking point in universities and higher education, and this event will be an opportunity for Librarians to

AI and Higher Education teaching Read More »

Léa Watson

Meet the committee – Léa Watson

What is your role in the Committee?  I am a member of the Information Literacy Group’s sub-committee for New Professionals.  When did you join and why?  As much of my day-to-day work involves delivering information literacy training to clinical staff, I have become particularly interested in information literacy, and health literacy in particular. This has

Meet the committee – Léa Watson Read More »

Three wishes for Information Literacy in 2025

Three wishes for information literacy in 2025

In this blog post Laura Woods, co-Chair of the Information Literacy Group, reflects on the current political climate and what this means for information literacy. This blog represents Laura’s personal views on the topic. ______________________________________________________________ Happy New Year to the information literacy community! January is traditionally a time for reflecting on the past, and looking

Three wishes for information literacy in 2025 Read More »