EBSCO offers high-quality information resources and technology solutions to help academic, medical, corporate and public/community libraries build and manage their collections, meet their patron’s information needs, promote lifelong learning, and transform lives. Providing access to books, eBooks, journals, magazines, and various reference resources alongside user-friendly search platforms, a managed open-source library system (FOLIO) and through our linked-data technology solution (Bibliograph) which transforms the visibility of library catalogues on the web, EBSCO is ideally placed to work with all libraries. For more information on EBSCO’s resources, please visit www.ebsco.com
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Since our foundation as the first British School of Librarianship in 1919, UCL Department of Information Studies has offered professionally grounded education that combines a unique portfolio of programmes in Library and information studies, Knowledge, information and data science, Archives and records management, Publishing, and Digital humanities.
We were one of the first British library schools to provide a standalone information literacy module, and we offer information literacy focused placements and professional development events in conjunction with local practitioners. The MA Library and information studies programme also provides an opportunity to study with research staff who are world leaders in information literacy research. Dr Alison Hicks leads research into academic, every-day, health and critical information literacy as well as serving as the current editor of the Journal of Information Literacy, while Dr Charles Inskip has made several contributions to workplace and employability scholarship. This year we have launched a BSc Information in Society, which seeks to equip students with practical knowledge from both the humanities and technology, along with a thorough understanding of the crucial role of information, data and evidence in society. We welcome enquiries from BSc, MA, PGDip and PhD students looking to build and extend their engagement with information literacy research and practice.
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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. Our publications include Alison Hicks, Annemaree Lloyd and Ola Pilerot’s Information Literacy Through Theory; Andrew Whitworth’s Mapping Information Landscapes, and Jake Hope’s visual literacy primer Seeing Sense, illustrated by Chris Riddell.
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.
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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!