As librarians who teach information literacy, we all spend a considerable amount of time developing our learning resources. As a profession, we are brilliant at sharing good practice with others and learning from our colleagues when preparing teaching sessions. But have you ever considered getting inspiration from, or using outright, other teachers’ materials? Open educational […]
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The Information Literacy Journal Club is an online discussion group focusing on information literacy and other aspects of user education. Everyone is welcome to participate, whether you are a current student of ILS, an established information professional or just generally interested in the subject area. The Club’s next online blog-comment meeting will take place at 12pm UK
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The University Library at the University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) has received funding for a four-year PhD scholarship position to carry out research on information literacy teaching, and is now seeking candidates for this exciting opportunity. The University Library at the University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway is
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Want time to reflect on information skills teaching? Would you like a week in June at a former stately home (Northern College) in the South Yorkshire countryside reflecting on teaching and learning with other librarians? Want it to be subsidised by the ILG (only £100 including accommodation and meals)? Then apply for a place on
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Eleanor Johnston, Academic Skills Librarian at Staffordshire University, reports on the recent Library TeachMeet event that took place at their Stoke-on-Trent campus and was sponsored by the CILIP Information Literacy Group. The theme of the event was “Little things mean a lot: adding value to the user experience”. On March 9th, 2016, Staffordshire University hosted
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Staffordshire University Library are hosting a free Library TeachMeet event on the theme of “Little things mean a lot: adding value to the user experience” on Wednesday, 9th March, 2016. This informal event is sponsored by the CILIP Information Literacy Group, and is for librarians and library staff who are curious about what the future may hold. Participants should be prepared
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In support of the TeenTech initiative, the CILIP Information Literacy Group has produced a range of resource sheets that pupils taking part in the competition can use to help them with the research process and with gathering all the information (opinion, academic research and business perspectives) that they need to develop their own innovations. A total
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Rebecca Mogg, Deputy Chair of the CILIP Information Literacy Group, has kindly provided a report on the Innovative Learning: Driving Educational Change event that took place at the Manchester Conference Centre on Tuesday, December 8th, 2015. Being a librarian, the vast majority of events I attend are for librarians and these are usually focused on information
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Allison Jones, Subject Librarian at UWTSD Carmarthen, has kindly provided a report on the “Play, Games and Information Literacy” workshop, sponsored by the CILIP Information Literacy Group, that took place in Leeds on Monday, November 23rd, 2015. Always keen to learn new skills and spice up my information literacy sessions, I booked onto the “Play, Games and
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Andrew Walsh, Training Officer for the CILIP Information Literacy Group, provides details of a free Library TeachMeet event, which will take place on Tuesday, 23rd February 2016 at the University of Huddersfield. A group of librarians from the University of Huddersfield are organising a TeachMeet for librarians (and people in other learning support roles if you want to
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