The Annual General Meeting of the CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) will take place online on Tuesday 9th June at 12:00pm-13:30pm (BST) using Teams. As an added bonus we are including presentations from two of our LILAC 2026 speakers, for our members who weren’t able to attend LILAC (or just couldn’t get to all the […]
The Container Conundrum Online, everything looks like a website. In a pre-internet context, information containers were easier to interpret at a glance. You could literally feel the physical difference between a newspaper and a scholarly book. But online, those sensory and embodied experiences are muted and flattened in a browser window. Online, a magazine article,
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The LILAC conference held at the University of Sheffield this year, from 30 March to 1 April, was an enjoyable and energising experience. There were more than 50 sessions on current information literacy research and practice, highlighting fresh perspectives on topics such as embedded information literacy teaching, workshops on professional practice and sessions on GenAI
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Thank you to UCL for providing our first sponsored blog post of the LILAC 2026 season! Over the last year, I have been taking ice-skating lessons. Now that I have progressed beyond the beginner stage (though you will still not be seeing me in a Spice Girl outfit à la Lilah Fear anytime soon, much
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Nominations for the 2026 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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We all know the feeling: LILAC is incredible! You forge brilliant connections throughout the three conference days, and leave buzzing with intellectual momentum. But let’s be honest, that momentum and those connections can sometimes fade away in the busy months following the conference. We want to explore ways to keep that LILAC energy going year-round
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Attending the LILAC conference for the first time earlier this year showed me that it is crucial for librarians across all sectors to develop our information literacy practice right now. It also demonstrated how much the connections and learning that come out of the conference can help us to do this. As an NHS librarian,
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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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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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