Information Literacy Weblog

Andrew Walsh is running a "make and do" camp, on 30-31 August 2016 in Manchester, UK, to make learning materials for library ins...

The latest issue (volume 42, no. 4) of The Journal of Academic Librarianship (priced publication) includes: - Information Literacy Traini...

The recording of the webinar presented on 26 July 2016 by Sheila Webber (me), Pamela McKinney, Liam Bullingham and Emily Wheeler is availabl...

There are some full papers relating to literacy and information literacy already available, that will be presented at the IFLA conference ...

There has been an interesting discussion on the North American information literacy discussion list about how and whether Melania Trump...

A new book is: Downey, A. (2016). Critical Information Literacy: Foundations, Inspiration, and Ideas. Library Juice Press. Price: $28.00....

I'm presenting in a free Information Literacy Webinar, July 26 2016: Information Literacy in My Career . The IFLA Continuing Professi...

Presentations from the recent CILIP conference are online and they include the following: - DeVIL: Determining the value of information ...

Taylor and Francis have assembled a "free article collection ... special issue" from articles taken from the last few years of t...

The ACRL Instruction Section Teaching Methods Committee has added new committee-recommended sources to their Zotero-based lists: Selected...

Another recent (May 2016) report is Smartphone by default , a qualitative research report conducted by ESRO for Ofcom (the UK communicatio...

A short online course from ACRL is Designing Curriculum & Developing Educators for the Information Literacy Courses of Tomorrow , runn...

I'll be highlighting a couple of recent reports from Ofcom (the UK's communications watchdog, which has an excellent research pr...

The Information Literacy Journal Club is an online discussion group focusing on information literacy. It takes place on the Club's bl...

Some final links for the 2nd European Media and Information Literacy Forum that I attended last week in Riga. I have made a Storify with ...

[I will do a more serious post later, but...] Today is World Chocolate Day , according to lots of news sites. This is an example of when i...

The latest Primo site of the month is a set of online material (particularly short videos and quizzes; plus example activities and discus...

EBLIDA (the association that lobbies on behalf of European libraries) and the Latvian Library Association are carrying out a Survey on N...

The IFLA Public Libraries Section has organised a conference on August 10-11 2016, prior to the main IFLA conference, on 21st Century Li...

Reference Services Review volume 22 issue 2 (priced publication) has been published, with a focus on health literacy. It includes - Heal...