Manchester Metropolitan University, 11-13 April 2022
Manchester Metropolitan University, 11-13 April 2022
Delegate Bursary: Schools
The UCL Department of Information Studies is celebrating 100 years since our foundation as the first British School of Librarianship! Throughout the decades, we have offered professionally grounded education that brings together a unique portfolio of programmes in library and information studies, information science, archives and records management, publishing and digital humanities.
Our most recent focus has been the development of an MA and PhD programme that offer the opportunity to specialise in information literacy. We are one of the few British library schools to offer a standalone information literacy module, and we offer information literacy focused placements and professional development events in conjunction with local practitioners. The programme also offers the opportunity to study with research staff who are world leaders in the field of information literacy research; Professor Annemaree Lloyd has irrevocably shaped the state of workplace, health and community information literacy scholarship while Dr Alison Hicks and Dr Charles Inskip continue to make vital contributions to the teaching and practice of information literacy in academic settings as well as other contexts. We welcome enquiries from students looking to build and extend their engagement with information literacy research and practice!
Visit the website
(https://www.ucl.ac.uk/information-studies/)
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Exhibitor.
At Talis, we are focused on helping Higher Education institutions reach their strategic goals around Teaching & Learning, learner and learning analytics, student experience and provision of resources. We work with over 100 institutions globally. We provide two solutions, Talis Aspire; an online resource list solution which closes the gap between the library, academics and students to improve workflow efficiencies around acquisitions and copyright compliance for the library, whilst providing an improved interface for students and academics which seamlessly integrates with your Virtual Learning Environment. Talis Elevate builds collaborative learning capabilities directly into resources we use in teaching, lowering barriers to entry for students to interact and engage, whilst also providing rich analytical insight into resource engagement, use over the term, annotation activity and student support.
Visit the website
(https://talis.com/?utm_source=Lilac&utm_medium=Lilac&utm_campaign=Lilac)
Information Literacy Award and Exhibitor.
The Information School at The University of Sheffield is a thriving community of students, educators and researchers dedicated to the study and advancement of the information field and its professions. The school is ranked Number One in the World for Library and Information Management in the QS World Rankings by Subject 2021. We are recognised as the leading school of our kind in the UK, with an international reputation for the quality of our teaching and research, and for the achievements of our graduates.
Our students develop the skills and knowledge that today's workplace needs. We encourage our students to undertake dissertation projects with external organisations and they often deal directly with contemporary issues of practice in industry. Our courses have been developed in close liaison with the relevant professional bodies and most are fully accredited by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP).
For individuals who are already in employment, we offer a range of exciting professional enhancement programmes that relate closely to professional practice. Some of our courses can also be taken as Postgraduate Certificates or Postgraduate Diplomas and on a full- or part-time basis.
Visit the website
(https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/is)
Exhibitor.
Adam Matthew Digital is an award-winning publisher of primary source content with 30 years’ experience identifying and making accessible primary resource collections from leading archives and libraries around the world. Each year it publishes new, relevant digital primary source collections that span a wide variety of topics ranging from gender and sexuality, literature, art, politics, war, business, popular culture, and more.
As its guiding philosophy, AM Digital believes that at the heart of education is the freedom to think critically and harnesses the latest technologies to reimagine collections to empower current and future generations to challenge, analyse and debate. This commitment to fostering critical thinking skills has led to the development of Research Methods Primary Sources, an online learning tool for primary source literacy that underpins key research concepts across the humanities and social sciences. Using peer-reviewed essays on how to evaluate sources and understand underrepresented voices, as well as case studies, data sets and practice sources, Research Methods Primary Sources will support teaching in both face-to-face and online learning environments.
Visit the website
(https://www.amdigital.co.uk/)
Exhibitor.
EBSCO supports the wider academic community through subscriptions to online journal, magazine and eBook content within our full text databases, acquisition tools to support the individual selection of serials (EBSCONET), and print and eBooks for outright purchase (GOBI). EBSCO specialises in search and discovery through individual subject indexes or via EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) to serve the needs of researchers. Advocating ‘open’ technologies, we have also pioneered the creation of a ground breaking Library system (FOLIO).
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(https://www.ebsco.com/)
Exhibitor and Networking Sponsor.
Keenious is a startup that has created a convenient researching tool. Powered by AI and conventional search algorithms, the Keenious search tool recommends exceptionally relevant publications to its users.
Join students and staff at 100+ institutions in more than 30 countries by trying it out. The tool sits alongside your text and analyses it, empowering you to search with context among more than 60 million publications. Because the tool uses your whole document rather than just keywords the search results are not only relevant, but often unexpected as the technology finds relevant research you would not otherwise have found.
Keenious’ innovative features allow you to intuitively focus and narrow down your search results. You can use your cursor to highlight text you want to focus on. Filter by topics suggested by Keenious to see more specific research papers from across disciplines. Simply put, using Keenious enhances the research process and encourages students and researchers to learn and explore new and existing avenues.
Ultimately Keenious aims to improve information literacy by instilling smarter research habits, including students and researchers struggling to formulate keywords. The tool can be downloaded as an add-on for Microsoft Word or Google Docs, or easily tried on our website, with no training required!
Visit the website
(https://www.keenious.com/)
Delegate Bursary: Further Education.
"Communications in Information Literacy" (CIL) is a peer-reviewed, independently published, and open access journal devoted to advancing research, theory, and practice in the area of information literacy in higher education. CIL is a semi-annual publication, and we accept manuscripts on an ongoing basis. Each volume of CIL consists of manuscripts within the following sections: Research Articles, Innovative Practices, Perspectives, and Book Reviews. We encourage LILAC participants to review our journal website to learn more about our practices, guidelines, and values and to consider supporting our mission by becoming a manuscript reviewer.
LILAC attendees will also be interested in CIL’s upcoming theme issue on open educational practices. The editors of CIL are currently soliciting submissions for a theme issue on the connections between information literacy and open educational practices (including but not limited to open educational resources, open pedagogy, and open licensing). Accepted papers will be published in the spring issue of 2023 (vol. 17, no. 1). Please feel free to send proposals or any related queries to editors@comminfolit.org.
Visit the website
(https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/comminfolit/)
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Facet Publishing is the global publisher of books for library, information and heritage professionals worldwide, and the publishing arm of CILIP. We publish a range of titles for practitioners, researchers and students authored by some of the leading minds in the field with a commitment to publishing quality content that advances our disciplines.
Literacy publications are the cornerstone of our programme, and it is an area that we are committed to expanding further. Recent publications include Annemaree Lloyd’s The Qualitative Landscape of Information Literacy, one of the foremost scholars in the discipline; Andrew Whitworth’s Mapping Information Landscapes, and Jake Hope’s visual literacy primer Seeing Sense, illustrated by Chris Riddell. Joanna Burkhardt publishes Media Smart with us this month – an invaluable classroom guide to recognising and teaching information manipulation.
Information literacy also underpins so much of our broader output – especially our growing offering in the area of critical librarianship. Marilyn Clarke, one of the keynote speakers at LILAC 2022, contributed a fantastic chapter on Goldsmith’s Liberate Our Library initiative to our edited collection Narrative Expansions: Interpreting Decolonisation in Academic Libraries, premised upon the field of critical information literacy.
We are always on the lookout for ways that we can improve and expand our programme. If you have an idea, please get in touch with us at info@facetpublishing.co.uk, or with our Head of Editorial at peter.baker@facetpublishing.co.uk.
Visit the website
(https://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/)
LILAC is great opportunity for our fellow professionals to present their ideas, share best practice and show case new thinking in our sector. If you have an idea then we'd love to hear about it. We have many options for the types of sessions you might run from a symposium to a workshop. Visit our Call for Presentations page to find out how to apply.
Places at this year's conference are likely to be in demand more than ever before. Each year our conference grows increasingly popular and this year promises to be no different. Don't miss out and book your place now for this year's conference.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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