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Expressions of interest: Public Libraries Representative

Leave a Comment / Committee Vacancies / By Maria Preshaw / 06/11/2023

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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Meet the ILG Committee: Andy Lacey, Public Library Representative

Leave a Comment / Interviews / By Emma Burnett / 17/01/2023

What is your role on the committee? I am the public library representative. When did you join and why? After finishing the LIS program at UCL, I was keen to continue exploring how information literacy happens in the everyday context. Information literacy in the HE sector is widely explored, but there is little literature which …

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Information Literacy Group vacancy: Public Libraries Representative

Leave a Comment / News / By Emma Burnett / 16/05/2022

The CILIP Information Literacy Group have an exciting opening to join our team. We are recruiting for a Public Libraries representative to share their professional knowledge of their sector. We are looking for applicants with experience of supporting the diverse information literacy needs of public library users. Knowledge of information literacy initiatives in the public …

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Scotland’s public library strategy

Leave a Comment / Comment / By Emma Burnett / 13/09/2021

Jacqueline Geekie is an Information Literacy and Learning Librarian and the Information Literacy Group’s public library rep. In this post, she talks about Scotland’s updated Public Library Strategy and how it addresses information literacy. This week the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) published their updated Public Library Strategy called Forward which covers the period …

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How to talk with people about conspiracy theories

Leave a Comment / Comment / By Emily Selvidge / 02/07/2021

In this blog post, the CILIP Information Literacy Group’s Public Libraries Rep, Jacqueline Geekie, comments on conspiracy theories. She talks about how she attended a focus group run by Sense about Science and introduces some resources from this organisation that offer advice on how to talk with people about conspiracy theories. We are living …

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Young people and technology

Leave a Comment / Comment / By Emily Selvidge / 23/04/2021

Jacqueline Geekie is the CILIP Information Literacy Group’s rep for public libraries. She is also the Information Literacy and Learning Librarian for Aberdeenshire Libraries. In this blog post, she reflects on two events that she has attended online, each broadly focussing on young people and technology. I recently attended two virtual events which were …

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Why get involved in Health Information Week 2021?

3 Comments / News / By Dan Pullinger / 15/02/2021

Health Information Week (5th-11th July 2021) is a multi-sector, week-long, health information campaign: it’s about raising the profile of health literacy; offering a platform for collaborative working between different partners; and reminding us all what good, reliable, health information looks like. 2020’s Health Information Week was not without its challenges (notably, a pandemic), but past …

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Digital Wellbeing in the Pandemic

Leave a Comment / Comment / By IL website administrator / 23/01/2021

Jacqueline Geekie is the Public Libraries Representative on the Information Literacy Group and is the Information Literacy and Learning Librarian for Live Life Aberdeenshire. As we approach the year mark in the pandemic, and many are still using technology every day for work, school, and in our personal lives, it is important to consider our …

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Updated: Public Libraries Sector Pages

Leave a Comment / News / By IL website administrator / 16/06/2020

We’re pleased to announce that there is new and improved content on our Public Libraries pages now available on our website here: Public Libraries The Information Literary website offers pages on a wide variety of libraries in different sectors, authored by those working across our varying profession. Browse all our information on different types of …

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CILIP COVID-19 Workforce Survey

Leave a Comment / News / By Dan Pullinger / 07/05/2020

CILIP: the library and information association has launched the COVID-19 Workforce Survey in order to understand how the disruption of COVID-19 and coronavirus is impacting the library, information and knowledge management workforce. The responses will be used both to improve CILIP’s support for the sector and to inform advocacy on behalf of the profession with …

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