This week has seen the publication and launch of a landmark new report from the Arts Council England on’The Role of the Public Library in Combating Misinformation and Disinformation: a Review and Action Plan’. This work is important as in part it is based on a national survey of public library staff working to address […]
What is your role on the committee? Communications & Engagement Manager When did you join and why? I have worked on the ILG Comms Team for around three years, and when the vacancy arose, I decided to apply for this role to try to continue the good work done by my predecessors. Information literacy has
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This blog post is by Andrew K. Shenton. It highlights the issues from the associated paper, Promoting reflection by students on their use of information. Full-text can be accessed via the link, or via Journal of Information Literacy page. Information professionals who are based in schools and involved in supporting Sixth Formers studying for the
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Episode Fourteen of Chatting Info Lit is now live on SoundCloud, Apple and Spotify!) “Get angry and then write us a piece about it”. In Episode 14, Jess Haigh (Managing Editor of the Journal of Information Literacy) joins the podcast to demystify the publication process. She speaks to Kerrianne Orriss about the various ways a
The LILAC conference was hosted by the University of Sheffield this year from 30th March to 1st April and many of the members from the ILG-New Professionals sub-committee were in attendance. A brilliant three-day event packed full of interesting talks and workshops from inclusive research on gendered student experiences (Laura Woods) and zine-making (Sara Kern,
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The Annual General Meeting of the CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) will take place online on Tuesday 9th June at 12:00pm-13:30pm (BST) using Teams. As an added bonus we are including presentations from two of our LILAC 2026 speakers, for our members who weren’t able to attend LILAC (or just couldn’t get to all the
News of some excellent forthcoming workshops with the editors of JIL… You’re Probably Already Doing Research: Designing and Conducting a Research Project – Friday 12th June, 1-2:30pm This 90-minute workshop is designed for practitioners who are interested in starting or getting back into empirical research. It will go over the process of idea generation,
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The Container Conundrum Online, everything looks like a website. In a pre-internet context, information containers were easier to interpret at a glance. You could literally feel the physical difference between a newspaper and a scholarly book. But online, those sensory and embodied experiences are muted and flattened in a browser window. Online, a magazine article,
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The Annual General Meeting of the CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) will take place online on Tuesday 9th June at 12pm using Teams. The group’s Annual Report for 2025/26 will be formally presented at the meeting. Date: Tuesday 9th June Time: 12:00-13:30pm (BST) Venue: Online, Teams Attendance at the AGM is free and is open
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The LILAC conference held at the University of Sheffield this year, from 30 March to 1 April, was an enjoyable and energising experience. There were more than 50 sessions on current information literacy research and practice, highlighting fresh perspectives on topics such as embedded information literacy teaching, workshops on professional practice and sessions on GenAI
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