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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Posted on behalf of Nancy Graham, Chair of the CoPILOT sub-group As some will no doubt already know, Jorum, the learning object repository hosted by Jisc, is being retired. Some of you will have uploaded your information literacy open educational resources (OER) onto the site (or linked to locally hosted ones) and you will need to
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The CILIP Information Literacy Group is pleased to announce a forthcoming “Play, Games and Information Literacy” workshop in Leeds, exploring how play and games can benefit your information skills teaching. Tickets are now available to the event on Monday, November 23rd, 2015, and are free to IL Group members! Featuring Chris Morrison, Susan Boyle, Steve Bond,
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The CILIP Information Literacy Group ran a prize draw at the recent CILIP Conference. Entrants were filmed giving their top information literacy teaching tip. Thank you to everyone who entered. Congratulations to Vicky Wilkie from the University of York, who wins an iPad mini. Vicky says “I had a wonderful time at the CILIP conference
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