Monday 30 March
Tuesday 31 March
Wednesday 1 April
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Monday 30 March
Registration, refreshments & First Timers and New Professionals Welcome (8:30 – 9.50)
Registration will take place in The Wave, Level A.
Parallel Sessions 1 (10:00 - 11:05)
- “Let them be louder, I’ll just be smarter”: gendered information experiences in undergraduate engineering education, Laura Woods.
Room: Workroom 1
Chair: Pam McKinney
- Links as evidence, Ads as clues: undergraduate source evaluation strategies, Alyssa Russo, Lori Townsend, Amy Jankowski and Stephanie Benee.
Room: Workroom 2
Chair: Georgie Broad
- Embedded librarianship: what’s it all about?, Rebekah Hill.
Room: Lecture Theatre 4
Chair: Anne-Lise Harding
- AI in education: embracing authenticity and vulnerability, Jane Hammons and Michael Flierl.
Room: Seminar room 5
Chair: Sarah Pavey
- Introducing the TRYangle: a new approach to evaluating sources fit for the AI age, Mike Jones (10:00-10:30).
Room: Lecture theatre 1
Chair: Emma Etteridge
- Leading digital and AI fluency through a library lens – the Teesside University pilot, Lisa Eveson (10:35-11:05).
Room: Lecture theatre 1
Chair: Emma Etteridge
Keynote (11:15 - 12:45)
Sue Lacey Bryant. This will take place in Lecture Theatre 1.
Lunch (12:45 - 13:45)
Lunch will be served on Level A.
Parallel Sessions 2 (13:45 - 15:25)
13:45 - 14:45
- Pedagogical approaches in medical librarianship: exploring non-lecture-based methods for teaching information literacy, Lea Watson.
Room: Lecture theatre 1
Chair: Eva Garcia Grau
- It’s not legal advice - but is it information literacy? When IL met copyright anxiety, Jane Secker, Chris Morrison, Louise Koch, Rosie Jones, Ami Pendergrass and Amanda Wakaruk.
Room: Workroom 2
Chair: Rosie Jones
- Session 1: Stop, collaborate, and zine make: DIY reflection tools for information literacy practice, Sara Kern, Denise Wetzel and Elliott Rose.
Note: participants need also attend Session 2 during Parallels 8
Room: Workroom 1
Chair: Sam Aston
- Future literacies: reimagining information literacy in the age of AI, Coco Nijhoff and Heather Lincoln.
Room: Seminar room 5
Chair: Padma Inala
- Critical thinking and dissent: information literacy in a refused knowledge information landscape, Magdelene Logren.
Room: Lecture theatre 4
Chair: Anne-Lise Harding
14:55 - 15:25
Refreshment break (15:25 - 15:55)
Refreshments will be served on Level A.
Parallel Sessions 3 (15:55 - 16:55)
Drinks reception and Information Literacy Awards (17:30-19:30)
The Drinks Reception and Awards evening will be held at Firth Hall, Alfred Denny Building, University of, Sheffield S10 2TN.
Tuesday 31 March
Registration (day delegates), refreshments & First Timers and New Professionals Welcome(09:00 – 09.45)
Registration will take place in The Wave, Level A.
Library Tours (09:30 - 10:15)
Meet in the entrance area of each respective library.
- Information Commons: This is the main library for taught students, with 24/7 access. The tour will showcase spaces for learning, teaching and beyond including the Digital Commons - a library makerspace, student exhibition space, sensory and wellbeing rooms.
- Western Bank Library: This is a research library which incorporates Special Collections and Archives, an exhibition space that changes bi-annually (currently focusing on the Student's Union) and spaces for learning and research including a reading room, and Research Commons. The library is a landmark Grade II listed building.
Parallel Sessions 4 (09:45 - 10:45)
Keynote (11:00 - 12:15)
Sheila Webber. This will take place in Lecture Theatre 1.
Lunch (12:15 - 13:15)
Lunch will be served on Level A.
Parallel Sessions 5 (13:15 - 15:00)
13:15 - 13:45
- From workshop to workshop: starting, scrapping, and rebuilding AI literacy at Sussex, Nicholas Heavey.
Room: Lecture theatre 1
Chair: Rosie Jones
- InfoSMART: a collaborative approach to information literacy, Charlotte Dunn and Hakan Gunduz.
Room: Workroom 1
Chair: Heather Lincoln
- You’re the 1-to-1 that I want! How we built a successful, in-depth teaching service by cross-skilling our ex-frontline librarians, Holly Brown, L C Chung and Jane Pothecary.
Room: Lecture theatre 4
Chair: Alison Hicks
- Mapping Mayhem: visualising the instructional realities of academic libraries, Kacy Lundstrom and Kirsten Cox (13:15-14:45).
Room: Seminar room 5
Chair: Emma Brown
- LILAC’s story continues: an informal panel discussion with Q&A, Jess Haigh, Claire Packham, Pam McKinney and Beth Tapster
Room: Workroom 2
Chair: Chris Thorpe
13:55 - 15:00
Refreshments (15:00 - 15:30)
Refreshments will be served on Level A.
Parallel Sessions 6 (15:30 - 16:30)
- Supercharged by AI: the power of global collaboration in facilitating critical AI literacy, Vicky Grant, Nabila Cruz, Maria De Brasdefer, Alanna Rossa and David Thomas.
Room: Lecture theatre 1
Chair: Stéphane Goldstein
- Reframing information literacy instruction through a lens of knowledge justice, Heather Campbell, Lea Sansom and Ashley McKeown.
Room: Workroom 1
Chair: Emma Cawley
- Empowering librarians who teach: using transformative learning theory to evaluate a teaching professional development programme, Jane Hammons and Amanda Folk.
Room: Workroom 2
Chair: Ella Wharton
- Intercultural competence to support information literacy instruction and workplace interactions: results from a pilot study, Heather Howard, Margaret Philips, Mark Puente and Pete Pascuzz.
Room: Seminar room 5
Chair: Kate Grigsby
Library Tours (15:30 - 16:15)
Meet in the entrance area of each respective library.
- Information Commons: This is the main library for taught students, with 24/7 access. The tour will showcase spaces for learning, teaching and beyond including the Digital Commons - a library makerspace, student exhibition space, sensory and wellbeing rooms.
- Western Bank Library: This is a research library which incorporate Special Collections and Archives, an exhibition space that changes bi-annually (currently focusing on the Student's Union) and spaces for learning and research including a reading room, and Research Commons. The library is a landmark Grade II listed building.
Conference Dinner Party (19:30 - 23:30)
The LILAC dinner party will take place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Victoria Station Road Sheffield, S4 7YE.
Wednesday 1 April
Registration (day delegates), refreshments & First Timers and New Professionals Welcome (09:00 - 09:30)
Registration will take place in The Wave, Level A.
Parallel Sessions 7 (09:30 - 10:30)
Refreshments and Poster Session
The Poster Session will take place on the ground floor of The Wave. Refreshments will be served on Level A.
Posters
- A framework for transformation: UCC library’s digital and information literacy framework in action, Ronan Madden.
- From the stacks to the screen: critical information literacy meets theory of knowledge, Alex Pfundt and Kyle Abbott.
- Mind the gap: mapping new information literacy pathways post-course cancellation, Mylène Pinard and Emily MacKenzie.
- At the bottom of the wrong stairs: lessons from unifying information literacy provision in a merged academic library, Colette Real, Cahterine Gallagher.
- Topsy-turvey times: addressing cognitive overload (together) in libraries, Eliott Rose and Sara Kern, Denise Wetzel.
- Taking “one small step” towards information literacy: countering political polarization via StoryCorps’ empathy-building resources, Emma Quinn.
- The CIVICA barometer: understanding information literacies in a European context, Celine Touitou.
- Confidence, compassion, and clinical trials: empowering librarians in their criticalappraisal teaching, Mary Walsh and Adam Garside.
- SuperSearchers - Information Literacy training for libraries, Isabella Ridout.
- LILAC: The Information Literacy Conference, Claire Packham, Sam Aston, Heather Lincoln, Andrew Medder and Chris Thorpe.
Keynote (11:15 - 12:30)
Matteo Bergamini. This will take place in Lecture Theatre 1.
Lunch (12:30 - 13:15)
Lunch will be served on Level A.
Parallel Sessions 8 (13:15 - 14:55)
13:15 - 14:15
14:25 - 14:55
Closing session (15:00 - 15:45)
What's next for Information Literacy? Reflecting on LILAC 2026 and beyond.
Location: Workroom 1.
Conference closes 15:45
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