FestivIL by LILAC on 6 to 8 July 2021 Bookings open soon!

https://infolit.org.uk/introducing-festivil-by-lilac/

FestivIL by LILAC is an online event designed to share knowledge & experiences and to bring the information literacy community together.

FestivIL events will feature;

• Masterclasses: 30 minute showcases of best practice in IL teaching
• Lightning talks: short, 5 minute sessions delivered to small groups followed by a group discussion
• IL talks: like a TED talk, these will be pre-recorded and made available ahead of the event (our version of TED Talks), followed by a live seminar discussion
• Posters: digital posters will be shared ahead of the event, followed by a live session during the FestivIL programme
• Panel discussions: facilitated discussions hosted by a small group of experts with different perspectives on a range of IL issues
• Skills/resource exchange: a reciprocal exchange session, in a similar format to speed networking, designed for experience sharing but also for building networks with IL professionals from around the world 
• Community of practice: as part of the daily FestivIL activities ,we will be setting up small communities of practice for you to share thoughts and experiences throughout the event

In addition to all of the above, we are delighted to announce our three mainstage speakers who will be joining us: Emily Drabinski (CUNY), Barbara Fister (Project Information Literacy) and Alison Hicks & some of her LIS students from UCL.

 When is the event happening?

FestivIL will run across 3 half days; 

• Tuesday 6th July (afternoon session, GMT, exact times TBC)
• Wednesday 7th July (morning session, GMT, exact times TBC)
• Thursday 8th July (afternoon session, GMT, exact times TBC) 

We see FestivIL as an opportunity to support the IL community and we hope delegates will participate — be that sharing your experiences, posting a comment or just having a chat. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, whether that’s in libraries, learning technology, educational development, research or information management, we think you’ll get something out of attending FestivIL by LILAC.

Visit the FestivIL by LILAC website for more information. Bookings open soon!

Claire Packham – LILAC Chair

The latest issue of the Journal of Information Literacy includes 7 papers which were to be this year’s LILAC presentations. 

https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/JIL/issue/view/223

An Investigation into Scottish Teenagers’ Information Literacy and Search Skills

This research paper which was the result of a CILIP ILG bursary granted to David Brazier and Morgan Harvey Northumbria University, was presented at ISIC: The Information Behaviour Conference, 9 -11 October 2018 http://www.isic2018.com/programme/isic-2018-programme.html by David Brazier, Morgan Harvey and Geoff Walton.

Introduction. This paper presents the results of a study investigating the information literacy and search skills of young people in Scotland. Method. Participants (n=57) completed two out of four different search tasks for which the correct answers (i.e. relevant documents) were known. Their interactions with the search system were logged and information about their own perceptions of the task were collected through pre- and post-task questionnaires. Analysis. The log data from the search system was analysed using the R statistical software package to understand the performance and behaviour of the participants when conducting the search tasks. 

Results. While we identified some evidence that information literacy and search skills were being employed, overall performance was low with participants often unable to produce successful queries and/or unable to identify relevant documents, even when some were present in the results. 

Conclusions. Search performance and ability to identify relevant information was generally poor, a fact that participants themselves were frequently unable to recognise. The results also suggest a reliance on complex search assistance tools (such as spell checking and query suggestions), which are common features of major search engines, but not of smaller systems, which pupils are also likely to have to use.

Posted by Jenny Foreman, Scottish Government Library

ECIL

The European Conference for Information Literacy (ECIL) is being held in Oulu, Finland this year. Monday 24^th – Thursday 27^th September.

Here’s the conference agenda. You’ll see there are a great variety of sessions, covering the main themes of health, education, research and libraries.

As far as I know only one of our IL CoP members, John Crawford, has made it to this remote part of Finland. A lot of very interesting tweeting happening on Twitter #ECIL2018 until we hear back from John.

@ECIL_2018 Official Twitter account of The 6th European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL). #ECIL2018 #UniOulu  ecil2018.ilconf.org 

Jenny Foreman, Scottish Government Library

LILAC 2015. 8th-10th April, Newcastle.

Although I didn't attend this year's LILAC in person, I did follow and capture it all on Twitter at https://storify.com/paulkgray/lilac15.

The presentations can also be found at http://www.slideshare.net/infolit_group/presentations aswell as other presentations and documents on information literacy.

Paul Gray

Scottish Government Library

ECIL 2015 - 19-22 October 2015, Tallinn, Estonia

The 2015 European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL) is themed 'Information Literacy in the Green Society' and will be organized by the Institute of Information Studies of Tallinn University and held from 19-22 October 2015, at Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia.

The deadline for abstract submissions is 16th March and full text submissions 15th June.  Early bird registration closes on 15th July.

Follow the conversation on Twitter #ecil2015

Paul Gray, Scottish Government Library