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The logo for the LILAC 2026 conference. The logo is circular with a lilac background, all text within the circle is a white colour and all images are white with a lilac outline, to show detail. At the centre of the circle there are two female figures. They are stood facing forwards but looking in different directions. They are wearing overalls and boots. They both have a cloth hanging out of a pocket and the figure on the right has goggles on her forehead. They each have one arm around the other and their other hand is on their own hip. The figures are based on the Women of Steel bronze sculpture that commemorates the women of Sheffield who worked in the city's steel industry during the First World War and Second World War. It was created by the sculptor Martin Jennings. Above the figures are the words LILAC: The information literacy conference, below the figures is the word Sheffield - all words are in capital letters. To the left of the figures is the number 20 and to the right of the figures is the number 26.

Links as Evidence, Ads as Clues: Rethinking Source Evaluation Through Student Eyes

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The Container Conundrum Online, everything looks like a website. In a pre-internet context, information containers were easier to interpret at a glance. You could literally feel the physical difference between a newspaper and a scholarly book. But online, those sensory and embodied experiences are muted and flattened in a browser window. Online, a magazine article, […]

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Can you feel it? Skating towards critical information literacy questions

Can you feel it? Skating towards critical information literacy questions

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Thank you to UCL for providing our first sponsored blog post of the LILAC 2026 season! Over the last year, I have been taking ice-skating lessons. Now that I have progressed beyond the beginner stage (though you will still not be seeing me in a Spice Girl outfit à la Lilah Fear anytime soon, much

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

Transferability, Applicability, and Models of Information Behaviour

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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

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Guest Post: Library TeachMeet: Employability and information and digital literacies

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Dr Lynsey Blandford is the Learning and Research Librarian for the School of Creative Arts and Industries at Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU). She has worked in a variety of libraries including at the University for the Creative Arts, Lambeth Palace Library, London School of Economics and the University of Kent before joining CCCU.  She

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Icepops (International Copyright-Literacy Event with Playful Opportunities for Practitioners and Scholars)

Event Reviews: Icepops Conference 2019 – Learning how to play the game

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Lorna M. Campbell, Senior Service Manager – Learning Technology within Education Design and Engagement – at the University of Edinburgh, blogs about her experience at the International Copyright-Literacy Event with Playful Opportunities for Practitioners and Scholars (Icepops) 2019 in this post. This was originally posted on her blog, and is available under CC-BY 3.0.  Ok, confession

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Media Literacy

Guest post: White Paper on Online Harms – the path to media literacy

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In our latest guest blog post, Stéphane Goldstein, Executive Director of InformAll and Advocacy and Outreach Officer of the CILIP Information Literacy Group, discusses the UK Government’s long-awaited White Paper on Online Harms, which is available in full here. Recognising libraries as one of the key stakeholders to be involved in the formulation of the

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Guest post: recent articles on information literacy research and practice

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Dr Alison Hicks, Lecturer in Library and Information Science at UCL, has written a guest post highlighting some recent articles in the field of information literacy research and practice. One of the greatest privileges of moving into a university lecturer position, alongside working with fabulous students, has been the opportunity (and requirement!) to keep up to

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