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Digital Skills for Tomorrow’s World: outreach with Maggie Philbin

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The CILIP Information Literacy Group and InformAll submitted a joint response to the July 2014 UK Digital Skills Task Force’s interim report, Digital Skills for Tomorrow’s World, which was authored by Maggie Philbin. The joint response argued that information literacy (IL) provides a vital underpinning to the acquisition of digital skills, and to the reduction in digital […]

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CILIP IL Group to fund two new research projects

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The CILIP Information Literacy Group are delighted to announce the funding of two very exciting, ground-breaking and innovative projects that will show how information is vitally important for citizenship and the workplace. “We believe that these projects will make a real difference to how we give young people the tools to become informed citizens and work

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Critical literacy for school librarians: 25th November (afternoon), Manchester Metropolitan University

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Sarah Mcnicol will be running a free, half day workshop, 1300-1600, at Manchester Metropolitan University, on critical literacy for school librarians. Critical literacy has been described as a ‘new basic’. It is a set of skills, dispositions and strategies intended to enable students “to challenge text and life as we know it” (McLaughlin & DeVoogd).

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Free information literacy event for School and FE librarians

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The CILIP Information Literacy Group is to provide a free training event for the sharing of good information and digital literacy practice for librarians and information professionals working in school and Further Education settings. Event: Active IL in the classroom: Info Lit workshop and TeachMeet for schools and FE Where: Library of Birmingham When: Monday,

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LILAC 2014: Bursary winners announced

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The Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) takes place at Sheffield Hallam University on 23rd-25th April 2014. LILAC’s bursary scheme was set up this year to enable access to the conference for librarians from sectors that traditionally struggle to secure funding from their employers. Each of the free conference places includes 3 days of attendance at all LILAC

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LILAC bursaries now available

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The Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) takes place at Sheffield Hallam University on 23rd-25th April 2014.  3 free conference places are being offered for librarians working in the following sectors: Schools/FE Public Health (eg NHS) Each conference place includes 3 days of attendance at all LILAC sessions and social events (networking evening and conference dinner).

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Welsh Information Literacy Project: Bite-sized best practice day – 01/08/13

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The following report is by Rebecca Mogg, Deputy Chair of the CILIP Information Literacy Group. The day was opened by Mandy Powell from CILIP Wales who gave an inspiring speech about the value of librarians’ support of information literacy and provided some background to the Welsh Information Literacy Project (WILP).  The CyMAL funded project has

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Update on the Welsh Information Literacy Project

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Update from Siona Murray, Welsh Information Literacy Project Officer. This article is intended to provide an update on the Welsh Information Literacy Project (WILP)activities over the past year and highlight the objectives for 2013-2014. Phase IV of the project was awarded to the North Wales Library Partnership (NWLP) and Coleg Llandrillo Library in April 2014.

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