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Navigating the information wilderness with education and advanced technology

Navigating the Information Wilderness with Education and Advanced Technology

Thank you to TDNet for contributing this blog post.  The Information Literacy Challenge We live in a time of unprecedented information access and complexity. The digital information ecosystem has become increasingly difficult to navigate for researchers, professionals, and students across every domain. Despite a wealth of meticulously researched scholarly publications and other trusted sources, the […]

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Mind the gap! Reframing information literacy research at University College, London (UCL)

Mind the gap! Reframing information literacy research at University College, London (UCL)

Thank you to University College London for contributing this blog post.  For many of us who work in Higher Education, the reappearance of leaf buds and migratory birds also marks the start of dissertation season; that period when students begin to lay the groundwork for the research that forms the culmination of their MA studies.

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Ross Todd award shortlist 2023-2024 - with watercolour clouds and a hand holding a trophy

Shortlist: Ross Todd Award 2023-2024 (to be awarded in 2025)

JIL are happy to announce the shortlist for the 2023-2024 Ross Todd Award for Outstanding Research. Congratulations to all of the nominees, and we hope you enjoy reading their articles! About the award: The Ross Todd Award for Outstanding Research is a biennial award designed to recognise research that has been published in the Journal

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Enhancing Information Literacy with VR technology

Enhancing Information Literacy Education with VR Technology: A Case Study on Applying VR Teaching Methods in University Information Literacy Courses

In our latest community blog post, Chao Wang explores the role that VR technology could play in teaching Information Literacy at Universities. To learn more about Chao’s work, you can read his “About the Author” profile at the end of this article. Thank you for your insight and for sharing your experiences, Chao! With technological

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New Voices in Information Literacy Webinar

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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Photograph of Drew Feeney - ILG Public Libraries Representative

Tracking Information Literacy Undercurrents in Public Libraries

Hi everyone – my name is Drew Feeney and I am the Public Libraries Representative for CILIP’s Information Literacy Group. I have almost twenty years’ experience working as a Librarian in the public sector in the west of Scotland, and I am currently also a PhD student at Edinburgh Napier University looking at the role

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Transportation touchpoints: emerging challenges for everyday information literacy

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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Webinar

Global Media and Information Literacy Week (24th-31st October): Free events – book now!

Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2022 Theme: “Nurturing trust: A Media and Information Literacy Imperative“ Global Media and Information Literacy Week, commemorated annually, is a major occasion for stakeholders to review and celebrate the progress achieved towards UNESCO’s Media and Information Literacy for All. The main theme of this year’s week (24-31 October) is “Nurturing

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