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There is a call for presentations for LILAC 2026 (the UK's Information Literacy conference) which takes place in Sheffield, UK (at my university!), 30 March - 1 April 2026. The deadline is 13 November 16.00 GMT (UK time). "There are no set themes for LILAC 2026, the focus is simply information literacy. We welcome proposals from all sectors and contexts. We ask that your presentation makes explicit reference to your innovative practice or research in information literacy." Proposals can be for short or long presentations, workshops, panel discussions, open review, lightning talks, "wildcards" and posters. For more information go to: https://www.lilacconference.com/lilac-2026/call-for-presentations-1 There is a webinar for those who would like more advice abour submitting abstracts on 3 October 2025 at 12 noon - 13.00 BST (UK time) - register at https://www.tickettailor.com/events/cilipinformationliteracygroup/1850273 

Curating information literacy stories from around the world since 2005 - - - Stories identified, chosen and written by humans!

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I’m very happy that the project report on ‘Tackling misinformation and disinformation for Scottish school librarians’ is now published on the CILIPS website. It feels like it&#821…

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6,425 posts, 5.2 million page views ... the Information Literacy Weblog has been publishing c. 300 posts a year for 20 years. Looking at the first post, we said "Hi, This is a temporary blog created whilst The Information Literacy Blog (at http://ciquest.shef.ac.uk/infolit/ since April 2003) is being found a new home. ... We hope to have a new home as soon as we can!" Well, it hasn't been so temporary! The old blog (2003-2005) ceased because it was run under LaTeX was on an old server, and the person who was supporting it moved jobs. Some pages from have been archived in the Internet Archive (e.g. this home page from June 2004, which has a report from a workshop in Yeppoon, Australia and reports from the LIDA conference in Dubrovnik, e.g. this one. I was busy in those days! BTW the internet archive links can be slow to respond, so patience is needed). Initially Stuart Boon provided some posts, and latterly Pam McKinney has joined me in liveblogging conferences, but otherwise the posts are devised and written by me (Sheila Webber). The tagline of the old blog 2004 was Sharing relevant items and information relating to information literacy worldwide, which became the slightly snappier We bring you news and reports about information literacy around the world to start with on this blog. In due course (i.e. I can't remember when) I changed this to Curating information literacy stories from around the world since 2005. You may have noticed that I have now added a further tagline "Stories identified, chosen and written by humans!" since nowadays it seems worth pointing out that there is human agency both in deciding what to blog and in writing the posts.  It seems unlikely that I will still be blogging in 20 years time, but I intend to keep going for now!

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