Information Literacy Weblog

The Pew Research Center's report on Americans’ Internet Access: 2000-2015 uses the data they have collected anually on the internet...

Some self-publicity! This shows me receiving my (framed) Senate award for sustained excellence in teaching from Sir Peter Middleton, our C...

This is the 2nd batch of links to papers due to be given at the World Library and Information (IFLA) Conference which takes places 15-21 ...

The World Library and Information (IFLA) Conference takes places 15-21 August in Cape Town, South Africa. I will be attending and aim to ...

The latest issue of the Journal of academic librarianship (volume 41 no. 4; this is a priced publication) includes - “It's in the Sy...

The CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) is offering up to £20,000 per year to fund practitioners (who are ILG members) through an annu...

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), and th...

I'd like to draw your attention to a post by my colleague Dr Briony Birdi , who is in fact not just a library user, but someone who rese...

A final report about the i3 conference held 23-26 June 2015 at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. I will say a few words about ...

The Guidelines on Information Literacy for Lifelong Learning by by Jesús Lau (compiled for the Information Literacy Section of the Intern...

UNESCO would like young people between the age of 14 and 25 to fill a series of questionnaires on media and information literacy . It is a...

A Spanish-language article from Felicidad Campal ("It's information, stupid": moulded after the saying "It's the e...

The presentations from the LIRG (Library and Information Research Group) AGM and Members Day, held July 1st 2015, have been put online. ...

Wasim Ahmed , a PhD student here in the University of Sheffield Information School, published a post on the LSE Impact Blog last week on U...

Issue 45 (2015) of Comunicar focuses on Communicating in an Ageing World . It includes (in Spanish and English language) - Use, Consumpt...

A few unconnected catchup links for Friday: - An interview with Troy Swanson conducted by Brian Mathews: Practicing Critical Information...

Volume 3 issue 3 of Reference Services Review (priced publication) includes: - FYI for FYE: 20-minute Instruction for Library Orientation...

- Presentations from the MOOCs in Scandanavia conference , held in June 2015: http://ki.se/en/moocs-in-scandinavia-conference - Issue of...

What: Reports from the EAHIL+ICAHIS+ICLC 2015 Workshop (Health librarians) ( https://eahil2015.wordpress.com/ ) and the i3 conference ( ...

Here are some useful links to material about the European health librarians conference (EAHIL+ICAHIS+ICLC ) that I was at a couple of weeks ...