There’s still time to make a nomination for the 2024 Information Literacy Award and apply for the Student Award. Information Literacy Award The CILIP Information Literacy Group and the Information School at the University of Sheffield are proud to offer an award for achievement in the field of information literacy (IL). The award is open […]
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Nominations for the 2024 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
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What is your role on the Committee? I am the Public Libraries Representative. When did you join and why? I joined in December 2023. I attended the European Conference of Information Literacy earlier in the year as a speaker, during which I met some lovely people there who turned out to be Committee members. A
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A brand-new issue of the Journal of Information Literacy (JIL) is out this week: Vol. 17, No. 2 (2023). It’s fully open access, so you can browse all the research articles, project reports, and book reviews. Editor-in-Chief, Alison Hicks, introduces the issue, and explains the need for information literacy to explore new approaches: Stay in our lane?
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The CILIP Information Literacy Group have two exciting openings to join our team, which offer a great opportunity to become more involved with the work of the ILG, learn new skills, network, and help advocate for information literacy.
A vacancy has arisen on the Information Literacy Group committee for a Public Libraries representative to share their professional knowledge of their sector. We are looking for a representative with experience of supporting the diverse information literacy needs of public library users. Knowledge of information literacy initiatives in the public library sector (e.g. lifelong learning,
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Alison Hicks reflects on the challenges faced by information literacy when transport prevents crucial social and physical interactions. During my visit to the Outer Hebrides this summer, I travelled over one of the islands’ most recently constructed bridges to the small settlement of Scalpay. Built during the 2000s, the bridge was celebrated for replacing the
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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‘.
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Sarah Pavey explores the link between Library Services and Student Well-being as we approach a new academic year. As the academic year begins, new undergraduates are on the cusp of stepping into the world of higher education, armed with not just academic knowledge but for a minority also a valuable skill set acquired through their
You may have heard about the new copyright research project: ‘Copyright Anxiety in UK Higher Education”. This is a collaborative project of Amanda Wakaruk and Celine Gareau-Brennan (University of Alberta), Chris Morrison and Rose Zhang (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), and Dr Jane Secker (City, University of London). The study aims to find out whether
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