We are pleased to let you know that the call for presentations for LILAC 2026 is now open. LILAC: The Information Literacy Conference will take place from 30 March – 1 April 2026 at the University of Sheffield. There are no set themes for LILAC 2026, the focus is simply information literacy. We welcome proposals from all […]
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Tue 16 September from 12:00PM – 1:00PM Do you want to speak with other librarians about how they are approaching AI and information literacy? More and more databases are incorporating natural language searching and AI summaries. With changes and development happening every day, each library may be approaching this situation differently. Join Ella, Jane and other
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Are you interested in shaping and supporting the development of information literacy? If so, apply to join the LILAC review panel. You don’t have to be an expert in information literacy, we want to expand the community and include a variety of voices from different sectors, professions and roles. So whatever stage you’re at in your
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The LILAC Stories project, which was launched at LILAC 2023 in Cambridge, has now published a full report of the research, including a literature review of current research on conference impact, the methodology of the project, and the full results and recommendations from the project’s Principal Investigator, Jess Haigh. The report is available through the
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At the closing session of LILAC 2025, held at Cardiff University, delegates were invited to reflect on their experience of the conference. They were asked to write about what surprised them, made them feel something, or to write about something they might do after the conference. At a conference with three keynotes, 41 parallel sessions,
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The Information Literacy Group and the LILAC committee were devastated to hear of the passing of our friend and colleague, Elaine, earlier this month. Elaine joined ILG in 2015, acting as the group Treasurer and also serving on the LILAC Committee. She had been convinced to join ILG by Rosie Jones, who knew Elaine’s talent,
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Thanks to Heather Lincoln, Victoria Rees, Eleanor Roberts, Tatiana Usova and Anonymous contributors for this blog post. At the closing session of LILAC 2025, held at Cardiff University, delegates were invited to reflect on their experience of the conference. They were asked to write about what surprised them, made them feel something, or to write
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The Annual General Meeting of the CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) will take place online on Wednesday 21st May at 12.00pm-1.30pm using Teams. As an added bonus this year we are including presentations from two of our LILAC 2025 speakers, for our members who weren’t able to attend LILAC (or just couldn’t get to all
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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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
