Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

There is a series of "case studies" on the CILIP Information Literacy website, with librarians describing how they have shifted IL teaching online. So far there are contributions from: Delyth Morris (Subject Librarian for Medicine at Cardiff University); David Bedford (Academic Support Librarian at Universities at Medway); Sarah Smyth (Assistant Librarian at Ulster University); Lesley English (Faculty Librarian (Teaching and Learning) at Lancaster University); Eleanor Barker and Veronica Phillips (Medical Library at the Un

Dr Alison Hicks, the newly-appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Literacy and CILIP ILG Library & Information Schools Representative reports on the new bilateral agreement between CILIP and the African Library and Information Association (AfLIA) and an overview of IL research in Africa.

The 30th January marked the signing of a new bilateral memorandum of agreement between CILIP and the African Library and Information Association (AfLIA). The memorandum promises an exciting new platform for the exchange of ideas as well as the establishment of partnerships targeting the development of shared research and practice.

CILIP Information Literacy Group Library of Birmingham 8 December 2014

The CILIP Information Literacy Group is working with BBC Bitesize to help with the teaching of fake news and misinformation.

The CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) has published revised versions of its Research Smarter resource sheets "designed to help secondary school students research effectively and be information literate". There are 10 of them, each 1 or 2 sides of A4, "made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence, so they can be shared, reproduced and re-used widely". Topics include: Referencing your research; Why do I need to research my topic?; Research is a messy process; What search engines are out there?

You can get the sheets at https://infolit.org.uk/information-literacy-group/school-resource-sheets/