Conference Programme

Monday 30 March

• 08:30 - 09:50 Registration, refreshments  & First Timers and New Professionals Breakfast
• 10:00 - 11:05 Parallel Sessions 1
• 11:15 - 12:45 Keynote: Sue Lacey Bryant
• 12:45 - 13:45 Lunch
• 13:45 - 15:25 Parallel Sessions 2
• 15:25 - 15:55 Refreshment break
• 15:55 - 16:55 Parallel Sessions 3
• 17:30 - 19:30 Drinks reception and Information Literacy Award

Tuesday 31 March

• 09:00 - 09:45 Registration (day delegates), refreshments & First Timers and New
  Professionals Breakfast
• 09:30 - 10:15 Library Tours
• 09:45 - 10:45 Parallel Sessions 4
• 11:00 - 12:15 Keynote: Sheila Webber
• 12:15 - 13:15 Lunch
• 13:15 - 14:55 Parallel Sessions 5
• 15:00 - 15:30 Refreshments
• 15:30 - 16:30 Parallel Sessions 6
• 15:30 - 16:15 Library Tours
• 19:30 - 23:30 Conference Dinner Party

Wednesday 1 April

• 09:00 - 09:30 Registration (day delegates), refreshments & First Timers and NewProfessionals Breakfast
• 09:30 - 10:30 Parallel Sessions 7
• 10:30 - 11:15 Refreshments and Poster Session
• 11:15 - 12:30 Keynote: Matteo Bergamini
• 12:30 - 13:15 Lunch
• 13:15 - 14:55 Parallel Sessions 8
• 15:00 - 15:45 Closing session
• 15:45 Conference closes

Monday 30 March

Registration, refreshments & First Timers and New Professionals Breakfast (8:30 – 9.50)

Registration will take place in The Wave, Levels A & B.

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: TBC.
• Links as evidence, Ads as clues: undergraduate source evaluation strategies, Alyssa Russo, Lori Townsend, Amy Jankowski and Stephanie Benee.
  Room: TBC.
• Embedded librarianship: what’s it all about?, Rebekah Hill.
  Room: TBC.
• Making, makerspaces and the role of information literacy (workshop), Graham Mclearney, Rosa Sadler and Vicky Grant.
  Room: TBC.
• Introducing the TRYangle: a new approach to evaluating sources fit for the AI age, Mike Jones (10:00-10:30).
  Room: TBC.
• Leading digital and AI fluency through a library lens – the Teesside University pilot, Lisa Eveson (10:35-11:05).
  Room: TBC. 

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 Levels 3 & 4.

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: TBC.
• It’s not legal advice - but is it information literacy? When IL met copyright anxiety (panel), Jane Secker, Chris Morrison, Rosie Jones and Ami Pendergrass.
  Room: TBC.
• Session 1: Stop, collaborate, and zine make: DIY reflection tools for information literacy practice, Sara Kern, Denise Wetzel and Elliott Rose.
  Note: participants need to attend also Session 1 during Parallels 8
  Room: TBC.
• Future literacies: reimagining information literacy in the age of AI (workshop), Coco Nijhoff and Heather Lincoln.
  Room: TBC.
• Critical thinking and dissent: information literacy in a refused knowledge information landscape, Magdelene Logren.
  Room: TBC.

14:55 - 15:25

• “Oh, I'm being judged”: Responding to students’ concerns and needs with innovative, learner-centered resources to support their critical understanding of artificial intelligence, Kerrianne Orriss and Rosey Crow.
  Room: TBC.
• Character defining: a library journaling game about creating characters from the unexpected connections between books, David Smith.
  Room: TBC.
• Embedded information and academic literacy: toolkit curriculum-wide inclusion, Louise Speakman and Rebecca Beaumont.
  Room: TBC.
• Challenges in delivering information literacy in the artificial intelligence era: a Pakistani perspective, Nadeem Siddique and Muhammad Safdar.
  Room: TBC.
• Embedding information literacy through a cross-intuitional study skills community of practice, Kate Courage and Michelle Malomo.
  Room: TBC.

Refreshment break (15:25 - 15:55)

Refreshments will be served  on Levels 3 & 4.

Parallel Sessions 3 (15:55 - 16:55)

• Weaponizing authority: teaching information literacy in the era of evidence-based othering, Kathleen Phillips, Joel Burkholder and Russell Hall.
  Room: TBC.
• Breaking through the noise: exploring the role of social media content creators for fitness information literacies, Laura Williams.
  Room: TBC.
• Same shot, new aim: exploring sustained instructor engagement in the one-shot, Emily Creo and Megan Benson.
  Room: TBC.
• AI in education: embracing authenticity and vulnerability (workshop), Jane Hammons and Michael Flierl.
  Room: TBC.

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 Breakfast (09:00 – 09.45)

Registration will take place in The Wave, Levels A & B.

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)

• Opting-out of inevitability: reflections on critical refusal of generative AI in academic libraries, Salma Abumeeiz and Jamie Hazlitt.
  Room: TBC.
• Enhanced learning through contemplative pedagogy, Pauline Rousseau.
  Room: TBC.
• Digital literacy through arts and culture activities: supporting older adults, Pam McKinney and Laura Woods.
  Room: TBC.
• Winning the one-shot: the growth and success of a game-based approach to library instruction (workshop), Gary Maixner and Mari Kermit-Canfield.
  Room: TBC.

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 Levels 3 & 4.

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: TBC.
• InfoSMART: a collaborative approach to information literacy, Charlotte Dunn and Hakan Gunduz.
  Room: TBC.
• 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: TBC.
• Straddling the digital divide: embedding information literacy (IL) skills in online courses, Alexandra Hamlett (13.15-14.15).
  Room: TBC.
• Mapping Mayhem: visualising the instructional realities of academic libraries, Kacy Lundstrom and Kirsten Cox (13:15-14:45).
  Room: TBC.

13:55 - 15:00

• LILAC learning sets, Laura Woods.
  Room: TBC.
• Advance HE fellowship for information professionals, Maria King.
  Room: TBC.
• Running on sand - integrating GenAI in a credit bearing course to enhance digital literacy, David Hirst and Padma Inala (13.55- 14.25).
  Room: TBC.
• Developing AI literacy for researchers in higher education, Lisa Bird and James Barnett (14.30-15.00).
  Room: TBC.

Refreshments (15:00 - 15:30)

Refreshments will be served  on Levels 3 & 4.

Parallel Sessions 6 (15:30 - 16:30)

• Supercharged by AI: the power of global collaboration in facilitating critical AI literacy, Vicky Grant, Amanda Bellenger and Mara De Brasdefer.
  Room: TBC.
• Reframing information literacy instruction through a lens of knowledge justice, Heather Campbell, Lea Sansom and Ashley McKeown.
  Room: TBC.
• Empowering librarians who teach: using transformative learning theory to evaluate a teaching professional development programme, Jane Hammons and Amanda Folk.
  Room: TBC.
• 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: TBC.

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 Breakfast (09:00 - 09:30)

Registration will take place in The Wave, Levels A & B.

Parallel Sessions 7 (09:30 - 10:30)

• Co-constructing knowledge justice: faculty and student partnerships that transform library instruction (panel), Heather Campbell, Lea Sansom and Ashley McKeown.
  Room: TBC.
• Publish and prosper: self-reflection and survey results from a research programme for librarians, Ethel Gamache, Helen Power and Rhiannon Jones.
  Room: TBC.
• “I don’t believe I had any black teachers”: exploring race, power and research assignments in secondary and postsecondary education, Amanda Folk and Tracey Overby.
  Room: TBC.
• Rethinking accessibility provision: a cross-team collaboration model for inclusive library services and information support, Donna Beazleigh, Sarah Halliday (09.30-10.00).
  Room: TBC.

Refreshments and Poster Session

The Poster Session will take place on the ground floor of The Wave. Refreshments will be served  on Levels 3 & 4.

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-turvy 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 critical
  appraisal teaching, Mary Walsh and Adam Garside.

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 Levels 3 & 4.

Parallel Sessions 8 (13:15 - 14:55)

13:15 - 14:15

• Reflections from the next generation of IL educators, Pam McKinney Sheila Webber and Pete Holdridge.
  Room: TBC.
• Session 2: Stop, collaborate, and zine make: DIY reflection tools for information literacy practice, Sara Kern, Denise Wetzel and Elliott Rose. Please note: participants need to have attended session 1.
  Room: TBC.
• Teaching philosophy unpacked: making your information literacy instruction intentional, Darren Flynn and Alison Hicks.
  Room: TBC.
• Invisible architects: school librarians, curriculum reform in England and the struggle for critical literacies, Sarah Pavey (13.15-13.45).
  Room: TBC.
• Bridging the divide: building a school-academic librarian PLC to support information literacy, Rosalind Bucy (13.45-14.15).
  Room: TBC.

14:25 - 14:55

• From markers to meaning: using dry-erase boards to reframe keyword searching through critical information literacy, Romel Espinel.
  Room: TBC.
• Collective conversations: exploring indigenous-informed pedagogy in academic library instruction, Adair Harper and Ashley Edwards.
  Room: TBC.
• Illuminate: information literacy for an inquiry-led curriculum, Abi Waterhouse.
  Room: TBC.
• "All mushrooms are edible but some only once": rethinking information literacy in leisure contexts through hobbyist mycology, Laura Williams.
  Room: TBC.

Closing session (15:00 - 15:45)

Location: TBC.

Conference closes 15:45