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LILAC conference 2025 – express your interest in attending

By Angela Young, on 5 December 2024

Deadline for expressing interest – 5pm Wednesday 8 January 2025.

LILAC 2025 will be held at Cardiff University from Monday 14 – Wednesday 16 April 2025. LILAC is a hugely inspiring and motivational conference, focusing on information literacy in libraries, and is relevant to anyone involved in teaching library skills or with an interest in information literacy. It comprises 3 days packed with seminars, workshops and lectures, a networking evening and conference dinner.

If you are interested in attending LILAC 2025, please complete the LILAC conference request form by 5pm on Wednesday 8 January 2025 and ask your manager to give consent by completing the manager’s consent form by the same date.

As the conference is costly, places for UCL LCCOS staff to attend are limited. The decision on who may attend will be made by the Staff Training and Development Oversight Group.

Eligibility for UCL LCCOS staff:

  • Priority will to be given to LCCOS staff who have never attended LILAC before or who have had an abstract accepted.
  • Applicants must have completed their probationary period at the time of application.
  • All attendees will be expected to contribute to ‘Lessons from LILAC’, a training and development activity to cascade training to colleagues as part of the eXperience eXchange – Library Skills in May 2025, an online staff training and development event for LCCOS staff involved in training and liaison activities.
  • Applicants must have line manager approval.

Recordings of ‘Lessons from LILAC’ from previous years are available on the eXperience eXchange Moodle course.

Please contact Angela Young with any questions, or for an enrolment key for the eXperience eXchange Moodle course.

LILAC conference 2024 – express your interest in attending

By Angela Young, on 5 December 2023

Deadline for expressing interest – 5pm Tuesday 19 December.

LILAC 2024 will be held at Leeds Beckett University from Monday 25 – Wednesday 27 March 2024. LILAC is a hugely inspiring and motivational conference, focusing on information literacy in libraries, and is relevant to anyone involved in teaching library skills or with an interest in information literacy. It comprises 3 days packed with seminars, workshops and lectures, a networking evening and conference dinner.

If you are interested in attending LILAC 2024, please complete the LILAC conference request form by 5pm on Tuesday 19 December and ask your manager to give consent by completing the manager’s consent form by the same date.

As the conference is costly, places for UCL LCCOS staff to attend are limited. The decision on who may attend will be made by the Staff Training and Development Oversight Group.

Eligibility for UCL LCCOS staff:

  • Priority will to be given to LCCOS staff who have never attended LILAC before or who have had an abstract accepted.
  • Applicants must have completed their probationary period at the time of application.
  • All attendees will be expected to contribute to ‘Lessons in LILAC’, a training and development activity to cascade training to colleagues as part of the eXperience eXchange – Library Skills in May 2024, an online staff training and development event for LCCOS staff involved in training and liaison activities.
  • Applicants must have line manager approval.

Please contact Angela Young with any questions.

LILAC information literacy Awards

By Benjamin Meunier, on 1 March 2017

A message from the LILAC Award organisers. (If you feel that you or one of your colleagues deserves this accolade, do put a nomination forward!)

 

The deadline for receipt of entries for this year’s LILAC information literacy awards has been extended to 5pm GMT on Thursday March 9th. These are the UK’s most prestigious awards in the field.

 

The Information Literacy Award (sponsored by CILIP Information Literacy Group and the National Library of Wales) recognises an outstanding individual contribution to information literacy made by a practitioner or researcher.  Self-nominations are welcomed.  The winner will receive £500 for personal use and £500 for their nominated charity.

 

The Credo Digital Information Literacy Award recognises an individual or group who developed the best new digital educational resource for promoting Information Literacy during 2016. Self-nominations are welcomed.

 

Checkout the video to get further information and some tips on applying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qytWeHBkkPw

 

Find full details at http://www.lilacconference.com/lilac-2017/awards/information-literacy-award  

 

Please help us to reward those special people who make all the difference!