Tag Archives: information literacy
Getting Started: 1, 2, 3
We’d like to welcome all new and returning students to the IOE Library. We have wonderful collections, a vast range of online resources and knowledgeable staff whom you can get acquainted with in three ways below. #1. IOE LibGuides. The dependable IOE … Continue reading
LILAC in Liverpool
LILAC 2018 (Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference) is aimed at librarians who teach information and digital skills. Each year, the three day conference includes keynote speeches and parallel sessions covering a range of different libraries including school, public, academic and … Continue reading
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‘Information Literacy in the inclusive society’ at ECIL 2016
ECIL, the European Conference on Information Literacy, is in Prague from 10-13 October. In its fourth year, the conference is more international than European with almost 300 delegates coming from as far away as Japan, New Zealand, Brazil and the … Continue reading
‘Troublesome knowledge’
‘Troublesome knowledge’ and threshold concepts were two of the topics covered by keynote speakers at the Information Literacy conference in Newcastle (LILAC 8-10 April 2015). The first keynote speaker to catch my imagination was Ray Land, a Durham educationalist (you can check his education publications … Continue reading
If it’s spring, it must be LILAC
LILAC is organised by CILIP and aimed at librarians who deal with information and digital literacy support. Lilacers come from the UK and from 30 different countries. This year, the conference is held in Newcastle from the 8-10 April. The … Continue reading
Information Literacy Training from the Newsam Library
In 2005, UNESCO proclaimed, Information literacy and lifelong learning are the beacons of the Information Society, illuminating the courses to development, prosperity and freedom.Information Literacy lies at the core of lifelong learning. It empowers people in all walks of life … Continue reading
LILAC… not a plant but living and lively
LILAC (for those of you who believe librarians are grey creatures) stands for Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference and LILAC is celebrating its 10th anniversary at Shefffield Hallam University from 23-25 April. After two days of sessions and one to … Continue reading
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LibGuides & LibAnswers: a new approach
At the IOE Learning & Teaching Conference last week Barbara Sakarya and I introduced our new information portal consisting of LibGuides (http://libguides.ioe.ac.uk) and LibAnswers (http://libanswers.ioe.ac.uk) (both of which are currently under development). We began our presentation asking the following … Continue reading
RSS: Keeping up with research
I am often asked by students how to keep current with new research output and my advice is to set up alerts using some of the new (RSS) and not so new (Email) technologies available to us. Before I begin … Continue reading
“Research supervisors and information literacy”
A report commissioned by the Research Information Network (RIN) on the role of research supervisors in information literacy has just been published. I hope to highlight the findings of this report at the first research supervisors training session in mid-November. … Continue reading
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