Workshops

Free Staffordshire Teachmeet on Information Literacy and Making Judgements

Staffordshire University Library are hosting a free Library TeachMeet event on the theme of “Information Literacy and Making Judgements: from Brexit to The White House” on Thursday 4th May. The event will be held on Thursday 4th May from 1pm-4pm in Stoke-on-Trent and will start with a lunch sponsored by the CILIP Information Literacy Group. Attendees are […]

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ACRL Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy Webcast Series

The CILIP Information Literacy Group are delighted to launch a series of 3 webinars and we are partnering with an expert team from the United States, from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) in this series of webinars exploring the Intersections between Scholarly Communications and Information Literacy. These webinars will be free to

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Event report: Staffordshire TeachMeet on accessibility and IL, December 2016

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: “Accessibility in Libraries – an Information Literacy Approach” On 14th December 2016, Staffordshire University hosted a Library TeachMeet at the Stoke

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Event report: Employability LibTeachMeet at Swansea University, November 2016

Philippa Price (Subject Librarian for School of Management & College of Engineering, Swansea University) has kindly provided a report of a recent LibTeachMeet, sponsored by the CILIP Information Literacy Group and held at Swansea University. Sun, sand and employability – LibTeachMeet at Swansea University The Welsh Higher Education Libraries Forum (WHELF) Learning and Teaching Group,

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Free Staffordshire TeachMeet on accessibility and IL

Staffordshire University Library are hosting a free Library TeachMeet event on the theme of “Accessibility in Libraries – an Information Literacy Approach” on Wednesday, 14th December, 2016. The event, sponsored by the CILIP Information Literacy Group, offers a great opportunity to share new ideas with colleagues from other institutions. Participants should be prepared to think creatively, discuss enthusiastically and leave inspired. Event: Accessibility in

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Announcement

Free webinar on IL and copyright teaching

Chris Morrison, Copyright and Licensing Compliance Officer at the University of Kent, is to present a webinar on Copyright the Card Game on Thursday, October 12th, 2016, as part of the Elsevier Library Connect webinar series. The session is entitled ‘Trends in Teaching Information Literacy’ and will also feature presentations by information literacy experts Katy Kavanagh Webb

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The Publishing Trap: a Lagadothon 2016 case study

Chris Morrison, Copyright and Licensing Compliance Officer at the University of Kent, and Jane Secker, Copyright and Digital Literacy Advisor at LSE and Chair of the CILIP Information Literacy Group, introduce a game they have designed to help academics, researchers and PhD students understand the scholarly communication process. The Publishing Trap was a runner-up at

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The CRAP! Game: a Lagadothon 2016 case study

Kathryn Ballard, Information Librarian at Southampton Solent University, introduces a game that she has designed to encourage participants to evaluate information sources. The CRAP! Game was a runner-up at LILAC 2016‘s popular Lagadothon event. UPDATE 25/11/16: Professionally designed versions of the CRAP! Game cards are now available for you to download and use. LILAC 2016

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Escape rooms for learning: the LILAC Lagadothon 2016 winner

Andrew Walsh, Academic Librarian at the University of Huddersfield and Training Officer for the CILIP Information Literacy Group, tells us about some exciting developments with his “Escape rooms for learning” idea, which was first unveiled at LILAC 2016‘s Lagadothon event. Since winning the Lagadothon with “Escaping the Induction”, I’ve been working on my prototype, which

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More places added for Digital Literacy in Libraries event

Due to exceptional demand, additional places are now available for the Digital Literacy in Libraries event in London on Friday, August 5th, 2016. The CILIP Information Literacy Group and the Multimedia, Information and Technology Group (MmIT) invite you to join them for a day-long conference of seminar talks and activities from digital literacy experts at the

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