Information Literacy Weblog

A free webinar hosted by ACRL's EBSS Education Committee is on 10 July 2026 at 12.30pm US EST (17.30 BST) on the ACRL Framework for Info...

Two articles today focusing on Information Literacy and democracy, both by Bill Johnston. Firstly an article that will form part of a specia...

The European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) is running a free online session on 6 July 2026 14.30-16.30 CEST (so, an hour earlier in the ...

The latest issue of the open-access Journal of Media Literacy Education (volume 18 no.1) comprises: - Building resilience: The influence ...

Ofcom (the UK's watchdog on communications and media literacy) has just published the final version of How to promote Media Literacy: S...

Registration is open for the Generative AI in Libraries (GAIL) Conference, free online 13-16 July 2026, at 13.00-16.00 US EST (18.00-21.00 B...

The latest episode (14) of the Chatting Info Lit podcast has been published: Desmystifying the publication process. Jess Haigh , Managing...

Early bird registration for the International Conference on Information Literacy (ICIL) Africa 2026 is now open. The conference takes plac...

The LOEX (US information literacy conference) took place on 7-9 May 2026 and presentations are mostly available. Today I'll link to the ...

From Eleanor Ball , some summer book recommendations "Critical Pedagogy, AI, and More" https://acrlog.org/2026/05/14/summer-break-...

Grosse, M. & Clarke-De Reza, s. (Eds). (2026). Media and Information Literacy as Civic Practice: Lessons from the College Classroom. T...

Today is United Nations International Day for Countering Hate Speech . UNESCO has organised a webinar today (18 June) at 13.30 CEST (12.30 ...

A couple of items of news and opinion about Google. Firstly a court in Germany has ruled that although Google has previously been found not ...

The Call for Participation for the UNESCO Youth Hackathon 2026 is now open. People aged 18–30 from anywhere in the world can participate in ...

An interesting open access book: Mfengu, A. et al. (2025). Advancing Social Justice Through Curriculum Realignment: Centering Scholarly Co...

On 25 June 14.00-15.30 BST (UK time) there is a free online event: DigiCONS (Digital Co-Creation with Nursing Students: Enhancing Digital C...

A new report from Full Fact , a UK fact checking agency: Full Fact Report 2026: A system under strain: strengthening the UK’s democratic inf...

I need to catch up on highlighting some books I'd missed, today it's  - Hess, A.N. (2025). Information Literacy and Critical Thinkin...

There's a short interview on the UNESCO website with Professor Arul Selvan, who leads development of a Media and Information Literacy C...

A news stories comments that "Australian students have recorded their worst-ever results in national tests that measure digital literac...