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Project report update: Reflection as a Means to Assess Information Literacy Instruction

Project Report Update: Reflection as a Means to Assess Information Literacy Instruction

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After their recent project report, “Reflection as a means to assess information literacy instruction”, published in the December 2025 issue of the Journal of Information Literacy, Natalia Kapacinskas, Veronica Arellano Douglas, Erica Lopez, and Mea Warren share a project report update with us. Our Teaching & Learning department at the University of Houston Libraries has […]

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Chatting Info Lit Episode Twelve: Autistic Librarians in Academic Library Workplaces (with Amelia Haire)

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Episode Twelve of Chatting Info Lit is now live on SoundCloud, Apple and Spotify!) “No matter what it is, find the core bit of you and use that, put that forward”. In Episode 12, Chatting Info Lit speaks to Amelia Haire (Senate House Library, Neurodivergent Library and Information Staff Network). Amelia joins the podcast to

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Chatting Info Lit Episode Eleven: Learning Sets at LILAC (with Laura Woods)

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Episode 11 of Chatting Info Lit is now live on Soundcloud, Apple and Spotify! “I guarantee you, you have a perspective that is valuable”. In Episode 11, Laura Woods (PhD student at the University of Sheffield, Co-chair of the Information Literacy Group Committee) joins the podcast to promote action learning sets at this year’s LILAC

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Information Literacy, data and evidence removal in the US

Upcoming Event! Information Literacy, data and evidence removal in the US

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Information Literacy, data and evidence removal in the US on  Thu 26 Feb 2026 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM  https://www.tickettailor.com/events/cilipinformationliteracygroup/2014393 During the US government shutdown in October and November of last year, many of us saw the notice on the PubMed website warning that information on the site may not be being updated. For many

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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

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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

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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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Search Smarter resources from ILG – from AI bots to referencing

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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

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Navigating the information wilderness with education and advanced technology

Navigating the Information Wilderness with Education and Advanced Technology

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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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Enhancing Information Literacy with VR technology

Enhancing Information Literacy Education with VR Technology: A Case Study on Applying VR Teaching Methods in University Information Literacy Courses

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In our latest community blog post, Chao Wang explores the role that VR technology could play in teaching Information Literacy at Universities. To learn more about Chao’s work, you can read his “About the Author” profile at the end of this article. Thank you for your insight and for sharing your experiences, Chao! With technological

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