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Connecting People, Connecting Ideas Research Symposium #CPCINapier

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Last month I was fortunate enough to win a travel bursary to attend the Connecting People, Connecting Ideas (CPCI) research symposium at Edinburgh Napier University. Organised by colleagues at the Centre of Social Informatics at Edinburgh Napier, the symposium provided an opportunity for those with research interests in Information Science to come together and consider […]

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Event report: Bangor TeachMeet on “Librarians Supporting the Research Lifecycle”

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Dr Beth Hall, Research Support Librarian at Bangor University, has kindly provided a report on the recent TeachMeet event hosted by Bangor University and sponsored by the CILIP Information Literacy Group. Bangor University TeachMeet: Librarians Supporting the Research Lifecycle, May 2017 The Welsh Higher Education Libraries Forum (WHELF) Research Group, with sponsorship from the CILIP Information Literacy

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Mark Hepworth honoured in Aslib Journal of Information Management

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A special issue of the Aslib Journal of Information Management* has just been published in honour of Emeritus Professor Mark Hepworth from Loughborough University, who died on 21 December 2016. The first paper in the journal “Mark Hepworth: in memoriam”, written by Thomas Jackson from the School of Business & Economics at Loughborough University, and Peter

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Event report: Staffordshire TeachMeet on “Information Literacy and Making Judgements: from Brexit to The White House”

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Eleanor Johnston, Academic Skills Librarian at Staffordshire University, has kindly provided a report on the recent Library TeachMeet event hosted by Staffordshire University Library and sponsored by the CILIP Information Literacy Group. Staffordshire University Library TeachMeet: “Information Literacy and Making Judgements: from Brexit to The White House” This event, sponsored by the CILIP Information Literacy Group, took

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ILG funded research projects update

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The research projects page has been updated. One project, Information Literacy for Democratic Engagement (IL-DEM), is now completed. The focus of the project was information literacy amongst those involved in hyperlocal democracy in Scotland as community councillors (the equivalent of parish councillors in England). The work of community councillors relates to ascertaining, co-ordinating and expressing the views

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Information Literacy Group’s Research Day

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The CILIP Information Literacy Group is pleased to share details of their upcoming Research Day. It will be held on 5th June, 2017 at CILIP Headquarters, London. The Information Literacy Group offers funds totalling £20,000 for high quality research through an annual bursary scheme. There are two rounds of funding given out in July and December

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Information Literacy Journal Club discussion- Thursday 11th May 2017 – 8pm

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The Information Literacy Journal Club will once again be discussing a reading next week – Thursday 11th May 2017 at 8pm. The article to be discussed is ‘School libraries, political information and information literacy provision: findings from a Scottish study’. Smith, L.N. Journal of Information Literacy, 2016, 10(2), pp.3-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.11645/10.2.2097 Full details: http://infolitjournalclub.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/school-libraries-political-information.html

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Information Literacy Journal Club – Thursday 30th March 2017

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The next information literacy online journal club discussion will take place on Thursday 30th March at 8pm BST (4pm EST) on the blog: http://infolitjournalclub.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/flipping-classroom-in-business-and.html Anyone can join!  Participants aim to read at least some of the article in advance, then come along and join in the discussion, with each other and the authors, by adding

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Information Literacy Journal Club – 16 March 2017

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The next Information Literacy Journal Club discussion is taking place this Thursday, March 16th, starting at 8pm UK time (4pm EST, 9pm Norway). The article chosen for discussion is “An assessment of library instruction: its influence on search behaviour of first- and third-year students” by Torunn Skofsrud Boger, Hanne Dybvik, Anne-Lise Eng and Else Helene Norheim,

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Information Literacy for Democratic Engagement (IL-DEM) project report

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The CILIP Information Literacy Group recently funded a research project on “Information literacy for democratic engagement”, led by a team at Edinburgh Napier University. The research team have kindly provided a summary of the project and its outcomes, which is available below. The CILIP IL Group seeks to fund high quality research through an annual bursary

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