Cardiff University, 14-16 April 2025
Cardiff University, 14-16 April 2025
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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AM’s digital collections and technology platforms enrich the study, research and teaching of primary sources. With over 30 years’ experience working with librarians, educators and archivists, AM is inspired by archival materials and passionate about the technology that brings them to life. AM partners with libraries, archives and heritage institutions to digitise the world’s historical and cultural knowledge. With AM, customers can discover award-winning archival collections, learn how to use them, or create their own.
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(https://www.amdigital.co.uk)
We at PTFS Europe are the UK open source library solutions experts. Like libraries, open source is about community and sharing, providing many benefits including: value for money, fantastic green credentials, easy integrations, and an incredibly fast pace of development and enhancement. There’s a whole open source international community supporting the enhancement and development of the software we work with.
When you join us as a customer you will not be purchasing software - you instead gain expertise of developers, trainers and data migration experts. Free annual updates and a secure hosted, ISO27001-accredited solution that fulfills your data protection and security requirements. All with responsive UK-based service support.
We support and host a range of open source library solutions including:
KOHA LMS: Fully featured, intuitive and scalable for small libraries to huge consortia and used by over 7000 libraries worldwide.
ASPEN DISCOVERY: Aspen expands upon the traditional discovery service offerings of database and subscription access by allowing websites to be indexed to the search.
LiDA app, bringing Aspen to your customers mobile devices.
METABASE ANALYTICS: Metabase adds powerful graphics to display the impact of your library service and can combine Koha reports with external data to self-updating dashboards for easy sharing.
We proudly work with customers across all UK library sectors, including public, academic, health, governmental, museum, law and special libraries. Find out more about what we do at www.ptfs-europe.com.
Please pop by and see Helen and Sam at LILAC2025, we look forward to seeing you soon!
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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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(https://www.ucl.ac.uk/information-studies/department-information-studies-faculty-arts-humanities)
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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The Information Literacy Group (ILG) is a CILIP Special Interest Group that encourages debate and the exchange of knowledge in all aspects of information literacy.
The group aims to:
- provide a forum for discussion
- disseminate information about local, national and international initiatives
- encourage the publication of articles, both nationally and internationally, which share new ideas, initiatives and experience
- encourage collaboration and support across all sectors of the profession
- highlight and promote good practice
The group achieves these aims by:
- maintaining an active email list: lis-infoliteracy
- organising LILAC: the Information Literacy Conference
- publishing the Journal of Information Literacy (JIL)
- maintaining the Information Literacy website
- highlighting effective practice through the annual Information Literacy Award
- organising meetings, seminars and training events
- sharing useful resources
- sponsoring IL events
- working in partnership with other relevant organisations and agencies, for example, the Media and Information Literacy Alliance.
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(https://infolit.org.uk/)
CILIP is the UK’s library and information association. We work to improve services, develop our members’ expertise and champion the sector. We are the leading voice for the information, knowledge management and library profession. We’re here for everyone who has a professional connection to information, knowledge, data and libraries, and shares our belief in their power to change lives. Our purpose is to unite, support and empower information professionals across all sectors. Our mission is to put library and information skills and professional values at the heart of an equal, democratic and prosperous society.
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(https://www.cilip.org.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!
