FestivIL by LILAC 2021

On this page you will find details of:

• Main Stage Speakers
  

• Parallel Sessions (indexed by lead author), including links to presentations and videos (where available).
  

• The winner of the Leading Light Award

You can also download a copy of our full programme complete with abstracts.

The FestivIL by LILAC website is still available online, as is our FestivIL channel on YouTube for all pre-recorded video content.

Main Stage Speakers:

Emily Drabinski (Interim Chief Librarian, Mina Rees Library, Graduate Center, CUNY) - Teaching the radical catalog (watch online)

Alison Hicks, Maud Cooper, Sae Matsuno, Eva Pickersgill, David Smith, Grace Troth (UCL Department of Information Studies)  -  Black Lives Matter, Brexit and Covid-19: Information literacy in a post-2020 world (watch online)

Barbara Fister (Project Information Literacy) - Information Literacy in the QAnon Era (watch online)

Parallel Sessions:

Bedford, D. Approaching student confidence using a "traffic light" tool.

Britton, S. Object-based learning without the objects? Special collections teaching in the COVID-19 era.

Brookbank, E. Helping students "un-learn" search in order to learn it: teaching algorithmic bias to university students in an information literacy session.

Carey, A. Enhancing student engagement in an online teaching environment.

Costoff-Diaz, A. & Rodes, V. Accessible digital libraries: information literacy for inclusion.

Dalal, H., Taylor, A. & Whitfield, S. Information literacy and Gen Z.

Dalton, S. & Andre, D. Using active learning and playfulness to address threshold concepts in online and face to face information literacy teaching: improving student learning and understanding.

Dormer, C. Speaking the same language: teachers’ perceptions of information literacy.

Frith, L. & Webb, S. Killer cats and flying penguins: developing bespoke and engaging Fake News workshops and webinars that remain relevant.

Gschwandtner, M. Embedding digital capabilities in the curriculum of a new medical school.

Hafeez, S. Wait a sec-ondment! Some reflections on information literacy, inclusivity, and invisible barriers.

Haworth, A. Reflections on collaborative working across boundaries: innovative approaches to information and digital fluency.

Hicks, A. Deactivating learning: a critique of active learning.

Highton, M. Hindsight 2020.

Hunter, R. Can you teach research in 10 minutes?

Jenkins, C. Developing digital health information literacy: training digital health champions.

Kassem, H., Williamson, B. & Leurs, G. Making online information literacy teaching engaging, interactive and accessible.

Loewen, H. & Rothney, J. Information literacy skills development from student to healthcare professional: results from a longitudinal survey.

Marsh, F. Unsettling information literacy: an investigation of academic researchers’ responses to critical information literacy in the context of decolonising the curriculum. (watch video online; download presentation)

McAndrew, E. Learning to become an online editor:Wikipedia as a teaching & learning environment. (download presentation; download Wikipedia toolkit)

McAndrew, E. Witchy Wikidata -In which/witch Wikidata brings magic to information literacy for a spell.

McKinney, P. The information literacy of food and activity tracking in 3 communities: parkrunners, people with type 2 diabetes and people with Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Mickel, B. & Wolnick, M. Using Wikipedia and the ACRL framework to jumpstart students’ information literacy engagement.

Narewska, E. Make it real: effective news literacy in primary settings. (watch video online; download presentation)

Nicholls, J. Striving for impact: can contextualised e-learning successfully develop students information literacy?

Parkin, C. & Carney, K. Harnessing the power of peer support to enhance professional practice.

Poole, K. A flipped classroom approach to teaching search techniques for systematic reviews to encourage active learning.

Pope, A. & Adams, J. Lost in paradise: reviewing students level of information literacy at an organisational level.

Pullinger, D., Liu, J. & Hicks, A. Step Up to Masters: supporting the academic skills transition for taught postgraduate students.

Pyman, H. Copyright Dough: an interactive workshop based around a new copyright game.

Richards, A. & Skinner, N. Cutting the CRAAP: Revising our teaching to ensure effective critical engagement with information sources.

Secker, J. Copyright, information literacy and criticality.

Sobel, K. & Evans, L. Emotional labor among information literacy librarians during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Webber, S. Developing a research agenda for information literacy.

Yap, J. & Manabat, A. Are we in-sync? Students’ virtual library experience with subject librarians during pandemic.

The Leading Light Award — Winner announced!

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Leading Light Award is…

Hazel Roome (University of Derby).

Here are a few words from our winner;

“Thank you so much for this award and to those who voted for me — it was very unexpected! The Night of the Hungry Hungry Robot was a collaborative effort between the library and our University of Derby Online (UDOL) department and the result is a great resource which impacts the student experience at the University of Derby. More importantly, it helps facilitate information literacy development and usage of our online resources. I am very proud to receive this award and be part of such an amazing project.”

Hazel donated her prize to Cancer Research UK.

Congratulations Hazel!