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AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON INFORMATION LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

An Historical Perspective on Information Literacy Instruction for Young People

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Andrew K. Shenton’s latest paper in the Journal of Information Literacy, “The Early Development of Information Literacy Instruction for Young People as Revealed by Six Volumes” explores the history of Information Literacy in school-aged children. Here, Andrew talks to us about the process of writing this paper and the research undertaken. You can read Andrew’s […]

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Why you should be planning your nomination for the Information Literacy Award

Why you should be planning your nomination for the Information Literacy Award

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Nominations for the 2025 Information Literacy Award open in the new year. The award is open to all practitioners, researchers and academics working in the information literacy field in the UK, both individuals and teams, and recognises excellent practice. You can nominate colleagues or self-nominate, so why not start thinking about which person, team, project or initiative

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New Voices in Information Literacy Webinar

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On Friday 13th December from 2-3.30pm ILG are running a free webinar hosted by Dr Alison Hicks, UCL and Dr Jane Secker, City St George’s University of London. Entitled ‘New Voices in Information Literacy’, the event will hear from four new professionals who have all recently completed their Masters in Library and Information Science /

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UK government aspirations for Media Literacy in schools

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This article was first posted on MILA UK government ministers have indicated clearly that they wish to see a place for media literacy education in schools. The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee is running an inquiry into the future of news; a public hearing of this on 15 October considered, among a range

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Lacking LILAC inspiration? We’re here to help!

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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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School Libraries Caught in the Genrefication Craze: RIP Melvil!

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Sarah Pavey, our Schools Librarian representative, explores the debate around library classification systems in schools, asking the immortal question: to Dewey, or not to Dewey? Over the last few weeks there has been an interesting debate on a school librarian’s forum concerning arranging resources by topic, theme or genre rather than using a classic classification

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Reflections on liberating the library through information creation: a ‘messy’ workshop at LILAC 2024

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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

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