New articles: teaching about information; Learning from failure

The latest issue of open access College & Research Libraries News (volume 86 issue 10) includes: 
- Richard M Cho - Information in the Age of Infocracy: Recalibrating the Definition of Information for Library Instruction. 
- Collin Stephenson - It Will Go Wrong: Reflections on Growing through Failure as an Instructional Partner. 
- Mary Aycock - Prompting Generative AI to Catalog: The Promise and the Reality (I know, this isn't about IL) 
Go to https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/issue/view/1686/showToc
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Call for proposals: Teaching information literacy under budget cuts

The Reference Librarian plans a special issue "addressing how instruction librarians manage their information literacy and liaison programs while adapting to budget cuts and changes in organizational structures." 
Deadline for 500 word proposals is 19 December 2025. Submit proposals via https://harrisburgu.libwizard.com/f/_wrefSP2526. 
Questions can be directed to co-editors Lauri Rebar (Lrebar@fau.edu) and Christine Bombaro (cbomb22@gmail.com).
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Book: Information Literacy and Social Media

A book I missed posting 
Santamaría, M. & Pfannenstiel, A.N. (2024). Information Literacy and Social Media: Empowered Student Engagement with the ACRL Framework. ALA. Price: ALA Member US $45.00; others US $50.00. 979-8-89255-545-6. 
The sections are: Social Media and Information Literacy; The [ACRL] Framework, Social Media, and Empowered Educators; Lesson Plans Within Social Media to Develop Information Literate Citizens; Creativity and Ethics as Key Components of Metaliteracy.  Go to https://alastore.ala.org/information-literacy-and-social-media-empowered-student-engagement-acrl-framework 
There is a review of the book just published in College & Research Libraries at  https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/27051/34930

The LIRT Librarian Recognition Award

The ALA Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT) is calling for nominations for the LIRT Librarian Recognition Award (which recognises a practicing librarian's contributions to information literacy education) and the LIRT Innovation in Instruction Award (presented to a library for its innovative approach to information literacy education). Submissions can be from any type of library. 
Winners will receive a US $1,500 award for Librarian recognition or US $2,000 for Innovation in Instruction and  US $1,000 stipend to be used to attend the 2026 ALA Annual Conference. Deadline is 15 January 2026. 
You can self-nominate for either award, and it does not say that the awards are restricted to people/libraries in the USA (though all the ones listed from 2014 were in the USA - but perhaps there weren't enough applicants from elsewhere!) 
Full information at http://www.ala.org/rt/lirt/awards
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Webinar: Information Literacy: Still powered by humans

The Central Library, Indian Institute Of Science Education And Research (IISER) (Berhampur, India) has organised a free webinar Information Literacy: Still powered by humans on 4 November 2025 at 10.30 GMT. The opening address will be by Professor Ashok K. Ganguli (IISER) and the speaker is Dr Alison Hicks (University College, London), Editor in Chief of the Journal of Information Literacy. Register at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/57BJ1zV7QSq8Hs6hGssKcQ
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