Information Literacy Weblog

A recent publication from Libraries Unlimited is T ransforming Information Literacy Instruction: Threshold Concepts in Theory and Practice...

Two more podcasts have been published by the Poynter Institute in their series (Mis)informed "a podcast about fake news, fact-checking...

A couple of items I spotted recently|: - Smith, K.L.M. (2018). Counter-story as Curriculum: Autoethnography, Critical Race Theory, and In...

A merry and information literate Christmas to all followers of the Information Literacy Weblog! Photo by Sheila Webber: The wreath I made...

There is a call for proposals for the free virtual Library 2.019 mini-conference: Shaping the Future of Libraries with Instructional Design...

There is a call for posters and lightning sessions for the US information literacy conference, LOEX , which takes place May 9-11, 2019 in ...

The 11th congress of French teacher librarians (professeurs documentalistes) of secondary schools will be held 22 - 24 March 2019 in Greno...

The new issue of open-access journal Information Research (vol. 23, issue 4) has been published. It includes: - Margaret S. Zimmerman: ...

The IUHPE Position statement on health literacy. A practical vision for a health literate world has been published. It was written by th...

An interesting new report produced for Scottish PEN, Scottish chilling: impact of government and corporate surveillance on writers. It is a...

Deborah, Emily, Rhiannon and Elle (who are also studying here in my department, the Information School at the University of Sheffield) are...

The Poynter Institute in the USA has a short series of podcasts about misinformation and fact-checking. The first full podcast Who is fact ...

There is a call for papers for the 18th Annual Information Literacy Summit, with the theme News, Media and Disinformation: Making Sense i...

Frerejean, J., Velthorst, G., van Strien, J., Kirschner, P. & Brand-Gruwel, S. (2019). Embedded instruction to learn information probl...

Today is Human Rights Day , celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The official United Nations we...

Not new, but you may be interested in the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning's (CIRTL) Inclusive pedagogy f...

I blogged about the report from the LSE, Fighting Misinformation , and there is a podcast of the launch event held on 20 November in Londo...

The latest issue of the open access Journal of Information Literacy has been published (volume 12, issue 2, 2018). It includes: Articles ...

There is a special issue on Health Literacy in Context—Settings, Media, and Populations in the current volume of the International Journa...

On December 5, 2018, at 2.30pm US Eastern time (which is 7.30pm UK tim) there's a repeat of the 90 minute workshop held in April: Fake...