Librarians Annual Information Literacy Conference (LILAC)

The second of these annual conferences has just taken place at the University of Leeds from 27 – 29th March. Around 160 librarians from university, school, public and healthcare libraries were treated to some superb keynote speeches from a range of speakers including Professor Dorothy Williams of Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen and Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library. In addition a range of useful and interesting optional sessions covered research and practical applications in the field.

Key ideas that seemed to grow as the conference progressed were around the importance of a social context for information literacy as opposed to a skills based approach divorced from the community of learners, formal or informal, and advocacy for the subject.

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