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I’ve just finished attending this year’s virtual CILN Forum. The topic was information literacy in the time of COVID-19, and there were three presentations:

Dr Ruth Carlyle, speaking on health literacy and the COVID-19 pandemic

Dr Jane Secker, who spoke and then facilitated a brief workshop on moving information literacy teaching online

Dr Deirdre Cijffers, who spoke and facilitated a discussion…

My last group training session (teaching fifteen medical students how to do a systematic review, and letting them lose on a variety of medical and scientific databases to try out their searching skills) for the year was a week ago, and my last one-to-one teaching (facilitating a research nurse’s critical appraisal of a published article) happened yesterday. The stream of users returning books…

Cambridge libraries have had information literacy on the agenda for a while now, and I’ve been part of the groups working on this area for some time. Last year, I was part of a small teaching and learning task and finish group, working on making preliminary recommendations to the University regarding information literacy policy and guidance. This preliminary work fed into a much larger network of…