The long-awaited Sanderson Review of England’s public libraries was published in early 2024 and has sparked much debate and discussion around the central themes it uncovers as well as the responses it offers to these. The Review was commissioned last autumn by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and was independently conducted by […]
Hi everyone – my name is Drew Feeney and I am the Public Libraries Representative for CILIP’s Information Literacy Group. I have almost twenty years’ experience working as a Librarian in the public sector in the west of Scotland, and I am currently also a PhD student at Edinburgh Napier University looking at the role
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A vacancy has arisen on the Information Literacy Group committee for a Public Libraries representative to share their professional knowledge of their sector. We are looking for a representative with experience of supporting the diverse information literacy needs of public library users. Knowledge of information literacy initiatives in the public library sector (e.g. lifelong learning,
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What is your role on the committee? I am the public library representative. When did you join and why? After finishing the LIS program at UCL, I was keen to continue exploring how information literacy happens in the everyday context. Information literacy in the HE sector is widely explored, but there is little literature which
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The CILIP Information Literacy Group have an exciting opening to join our team. We are recruiting for a Public Libraries representative to share their professional knowledge of their sector. We are looking for applicants with experience of supporting the diverse information literacy needs of public library users. Knowledge of information literacy initiatives in the public
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Jacqueline Geekie is an Information Literacy and Learning Librarian and the Information Literacy Group’s public library rep. In this post, she talks about Scotland’s updated Public Library Strategy and how it addresses information literacy. This week the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) published their updated Public Library Strategy called Forward which covers the period
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In this blog post, the CILIP Information Literacy Group’s Public Libraries Rep, Jacqueline Geekie, comments on conspiracy theories. She talks about how she attended a focus group run by Sense about Science and introduces some resources from this organisation that offer advice on how to talk with people about conspiracy theories. We are living
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Jacqueline Geekie is the CILIP Information Literacy Group’s rep for public libraries. She is also the Information Literacy and Learning Librarian for Aberdeenshire Libraries. In this blog post, she reflects on two events that she has attended online, each broadly focussing on young people and technology. I recently attended two virtual events which were
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Health Information Week (5th-11th July 2021) is a multi-sector, week-long, health information campaign: it’s about raising the profile of health literacy; offering a platform for collaborative working between different partners; and reminding us all what good, reliable, health information looks like. 2020’s Health Information Week was not without its challenges (notably, a pandemic), but past
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Jacqueline Geekie is the Public Libraries Representative on the Information Literacy Group and is the Information Literacy and Learning Librarian for Live Life Aberdeenshire. As we approach the year mark in the pandemic, and many are still using technology every day for work, school, and in our personal lives, it is important to consider our
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