In this post, Jane Secker reflects on Paul Zurkowski’s legacy in the world of Information literacy, and how we can look forward to the future. In 1974 Paul Zurkowski the president of the American Information Industry Association coined the term ‘information literacy’ in a report he wrote entitled ‘The Information Service Environment: Services and Priorities‘. …
LILAC 2024 bursaries available – apply now for full conference and day delegate places! Applications are now open for the LILAC 2024 conference bursaries. LILAC: The Information Literacy Conference will take place from 25–27 March 2024 at Leeds Beckett University. This year, we are pleased to announce the introduction of a new ‘Local to LILAC’ …
What do you think of the Information Literacy Group? What would you like to see from us in terms of events, resources, communications, and other support for information literacy practitioners? We’d like to hear from any of our supporters, whether you are ILG members or not, and wherever in the world you are. Please take …
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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the CILIP Information Literacy Group committee as our new Training Officer. Applicants should have experience of committee work (not necessarily with CILIP), and be based in the UK. Please consult the Training Officer role description for more details on what is involved. Please note that this is a voluntary position, and there is …
Reminder: Vacancy on the CILIP Information Literacy Group Committee: Training Officer Read More »
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the CILIP Information Literacy Group committee as our new Training Officer. Applicants should have experience of committee work (not necessarily with CILIP), and be based in the UK. Please consult the Training Officer role description for more details on what is involved. Please note that this is a voluntary position, and there is …
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The new academic year seems to come around more quickly each year, which is probably a sign of me aging! However, despite it being a busy time of year it’s also a good time to review what I have been up to as Chair of the Information Literacy Group over the past few months and …
LILAC 2022 will be taking place at Manchester Metropolitan University, Monday 11th April to Wednesday 13th April 2022. We’re really looking forward to finally being able to deliver the conference we didn’t get to hold in 2020! Whilst the committee enjoyed meeting some of you virtually at FestivIL in the summer, we are so excited …
This post has been written by the Information Literacy Group’s Chair, Jane Secker. In the last few months there has been a resurgence of interest from the academic community in open educational resources (OERs), which are teaching resources shared with an open licence. No doubt this is partly prompted by the pandemic as lecturers and …
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In this guest blog post, Pip Divall talks about the responses of NHS Librarians to COVID-19. Pip is the Clinical Librarian Service Manager at UHL NHS Trust and the Health Sector Rep for the Information Literacy Group. Like the rest of the world, health librarians and information professionals have been dealing with huge unknowns. The …
