On Monday 21st October, librarians took over the Houses of Parliament! Well, by “took over” I of course mean we queued politely, showed our invitations and followed all the security rules, in order to attend the CILIP-organised Parliamentary reception on the theme of ‘Libraries Change Lives by Creating Opportunities’. The Information Literacy Group was delighted […]
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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
What is your role on the committee? I am joining the Information Literacy Group as the Events Officer. I have previously been on the ILG New Professionals Committee. When did you join and why? Having thoroughly enjoyed my time on the ILG New Professionals Sub-committee (2022-24), I am very excited to join the ILG! My
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What is your role on the Committee?I’m on the committee to represent academics and students from Library andInformation Science departments. When did you join and why?I joined in July 2024, and I’m excited to get to work! It’s really important that ourinformation literacy course content is informed by the very latest developments inpractice, and having
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In this post, Information Literacy Group Co-Chair Laura Woods shared some reflections on the half-way point of the 50th year or Information Literacy. As anyone who has been admiring our lovely 50 Years of IL logo at the top of this site will know, 2024 marks 50 years since the coining of the term “Information
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We are excited to share an announcement from Jane Hammons of Ohio State University, as the team announce that the first of their follow-up conversations after Celebrating 50 Years of Information Literacy: A Panel Discussion has been scheduled: Preparing Future Librarians for Instruction and Advocacy: A Panel Discussion. A description and registration information is below. All
Laura Woods is a Subject Librarian at the University of Huddersfield, a part-time PhD student at the University of Sheffield Information School, and co-Deputy Chair of the Information Literacy Group. Inspired by a recent post on the ACRLog on “dwindling reference questions” at the academic library help desk, I’ve been thinking about how the phenomenon
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The CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) are pleased to host an online roundtable event as we commemorate 50 Years of Information Literacy in 2024. We are excited to have a panel of Information Literacy professionals to share insights on the key topic of Information Literacy (IL) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). This event is aimed at
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In this blog post, Laura Woods, Deputy Chair of the CILIP Information Literacy Group, gives a summary of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Higher Education, highlighting recent news on the topic and some useful resources. As the new term begins in higher education, all the conversations in the sector seem to be about generative AI and
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