Location:  Manchester Metropolitan University New Business School: room 1.22. Near All Saints park   (off Oxford Rd) Map & Directions:   map is available at: www2.mmu.ac.uk/media/mmuacuk/content/documents/howtofindus/mmu_maps_allsaints.pdf Business School is No 3. Directions can be found at: http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/travel/allsaints/ Date: Monday 13th May 2013   10.00 – 4pm (9.30 registration) Cost: Free; refreshments (including lunch sponsored by the CILIP IL [...]

In a recent CILIP survey 89% of respondents said Information literacy is an important part of what they do. So CILIP President Phil Bradley is setting a challenge to CILIP members… Show them your information literacy work in action by sending them a two minute film or interactive poster for the chance to win a free [...]

The CILIP Information Literacy group is holding its first AGM at LILAC 2013.  All members of the group are invited to attend it. CILIP Information Literacy Group: Annual General Meeting 2013 Date: Tuesday 26th March 2013 Time: 1.05 – 2 pm Venue: Eats Restaurant, University Place, Manchester University Agenda Welcome to first AGM of the [...]

The University of Birmingham and London School of Economics and Political Science are working with the Communication and Information Sector of UNESCO on a short project funded by JISC and the Higher Education Academy under Phase 3 of their UK open educational resources (OER) programme. Project CoPILOT (Community of Practice for Information Literacy Online Teaching) [...]

On 14th August 2012, the CILIP Information Literacy Group is sponsoring a free workshop (11am-3pm) at the University of Birmingham to discuss how the library community in UK can facilitate the sharing of information literacy resources as open educational resources. The workshop will involve producing a way forward for how we can work together to [...]

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The Credo Reference Digital Award for Information Literacy was announced at the LILAC conference dinner.  The annual award aims to recognise an individual librarian or group of librarians who develop the best new digital resource for promoting information literacy. Skills@Library Team (University of Leeds) for the Skills@Library lecturer pages. This is an extensive online portfolio [...]

CILIP is calling for comments on the draft Professional body of knowledge (PBK) they are developing.  The draft and opportunity to comment isI available at: http://www.cilip.org.uk/about-us/future-skills-project/pages/bpks-consultation.aspx .

The CILIP CSG-Information Literacy group are delighted to be partnering with UNESCO to collaborate on a new project to highlight information literacy open educational resources in the UK. Jane Secker (LSE) and Nancy Graham (University of Birmingham) are representing the group. With this aim we are conducting a short survey of librarians to gather information [...]

The Independent Review of Digital Classroom teaching, which reported to the Welsh Government Minister for Education and Skills on 29 March, recommends that teachers in Wales are supported to develop their information literacy and other digital capabilities, and that it must be included in intial teacher training.  The report Find it, make it, use it, [...]