The logo for the LILAC 2026 conference. The logo is circular with a lilac background, all text within the circle is a white colour and all images are white with a lilac outline, to show detail. At the centre of the circle there are two female figures. They are stood facing forwards but looking in different directions. They are wearing overalls and boots. They both have a cloth hanging out of a pocket and the figure on the right has goggles on her forehead. They each have one arm around the other and their other hand is on their own hip. The figures are based on the Women of Steel bronze sculpture that commemorates the women of Sheffield who worked in the city's steel industry during the First World War and Second World War. It was created by the sculptor Martin Jennings. Above the figures are the words LILAC: The information literacy conference, below the figures is the word Sheffield - all words are in capital letters. To the left of the figures is the number 20 and to the right of the figures is the number 26.

Links as Evidence, Ads as Clues: Rethinking Source Evaluation Through Student Eyes

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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 logo for the LILAC 2026 conference. The logo is circular with a lilac background, all text within the circle is a white colour and all images are white with a lilac outline, to show detail. At the centre of the circle there are two female figures. They are stood facing forwards but looking in different directions. They are wearing overalls and boots. They both have a cloth hanging out of a pocket and the figure on the right has goggles on her forehead. They each have one arm around the other and their other hand is on their own hip. The figures are based on the Women of Steel bronze sculpture that commemorates the women of Sheffield who worked in the city's steel industry during the First World War and Second World War. It was created by the sculptor Martin Jennings. Above the figures are the words LILAC: The information literacy conference, below the figures is the word Sheffield - all words are in capital letters. To the left of the figures is the number 20 and to the right of the figures is the number 26.

The LILAC conference review team: A big thank you to reviewers past and present

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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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The logo for the LILAC 2026 conference. The logo is circular with a lilac background, all text within the circle is a white colour and all images are white with a lilac outline, to show detail. At the centre of the circle there are two female figures. They are stood facing forwards but looking in different directions. They are wearing overalls and boots. They both have a cloth hanging out of a pocket and the figure on the right has goggles on her forehead. They each have one arm around the other and their other hand is on their own hip. The figures are based on the Women of Steel bronze sculpture that commemorates the women of Sheffield who worked in the city's steel industry during the First World War and Second World War. It was created by the sculptor Martin Jennings. Above the figures are the words LILAC: The information literacy conference, below the figures is the word Sheffield - all words are in capital letters. To the left of the figures is the number 20 and to the right of the figures is the number 26.

Outside Looking In: What I’ll Miss At LILAC 2026

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The annual LILAC conference is upon us, and unfortunately this writer won’t be attending. I’ve been perusing the programme like a kid looking through a misted toyshop window, wiping away the condensation from the glass with my woollen mittens and wishing I was inside, warm and overwhelmed with the options of wooden railways, licenced figurines

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AI Conference 2026: Confidence, Competence and Context. Building collaborative appropaches to AI Literacy in learning, teaching and education. Online event, Friday 24th April, 9am to 4.45pm BST.

Confidence, Competence, and Context: AI Online Conference, 24th April 2026

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The University of Liverpool’s Libraries, Museums and Galleries is set to host an international online conference, bringing together experts, educators and researchers from around the world to explore the rapidly evolving landscape of Artificial Intelligence. The AI Online Conference 2026, delivered via Microsoft Teams from 9am to 4.45pm BST (UTC+1) on Friday 24 April, 2026 will feature contributions

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Can you feel it? Skating towards critical information literacy questions

Can you feel it? Skating towards critical information literacy questions

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Thank you to UCL for providing our first sponsored blog post of the LILAC 2026 season! Over the last year, I have been taking ice-skating lessons. Now that I have progressed beyond the beginner stage (though you will still not be seeing me in a Spice Girl outfit à la Lilah Fear anytime soon, much

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Top tips in health teaching: reflective practice

Reflective Practice: Top Tips in Health Teaching

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The final blog in our Top Tips for Health Teaching series considers teaching reflective practice. This was one of the presentations at our Knowledge Sharing Workshop event in September 2025, presented by Bethan Morgan, Librarian at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. Teaching reflective practice  I have been teaching reflective practice for around 4 years. I

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Project report update: Reflection as a Means to Assess Information Literacy Instruction

Project Report Update: Reflection as a Means to Assess Information Literacy Instruction

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After their recent project report, “Reflection as a means to assess information literacy instruction”, published in the December 2025 issue of the Journal of Information Literacy, Natalia Kapacinskas, Veronica Arellano Douglas, Erica Lopez, and Mea Warren share a project report update with us. Our Teaching & Learning department at the University of Houston Libraries has

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Top Tips in Health Teaching: Critical Appraisal Training

Critical Appraisal Training: Top Tips in Health Teaching

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The next blog in our Top Tips for Health Teaching series considers critical appraisal training. This was one of the presentations at our Knowledge Sharing Workshop event in September 2025, entitled “How I shed my armbands and began to enjoy swimming in the critical appraisal activities pool!”  and outlines the experiences of Sarah Gardner, Clinical

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Chatting Info Lit Episode Twelve: Autistic Librarians in Academic Library Workplaces (with Amelia Haire)

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Episode Twelve of Chatting Info Lit is now live on SoundCloud, Apple and Spotify!) “No matter what it is, find the core bit of you and use that, put that forward”. In Episode 12, Chatting Info Lit speaks to Amelia Haire (Senate House Library, Neurodivergent Library and Information Staff Network). Amelia joins the podcast to

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