The purpose of this paper is to provide a flavour of the content of the LILAC conference held in Liverpool, UK in March 2008.
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a flavour of the content of the LILAC conference held in Liverpool, UK in March 2008.
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An outline of the issues, content, keynote speakers and delegates is provided.
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This conference covered the themes of supporting researchers, diversity and social justice, practical approaches to information literacy, the Net generation, ethical information, staff development and information literacy and marketing information literacy.
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A conference report of value to library and information professionals regarding various information literacy themes, with a link to web site information.
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To provide a flavour of the content of the third Librarians Information Literacy Conference (LILAC) held in Manchester, UK in March 2007.
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To provide a flavour of the content of the third Librarians Information Literacy Conference (LILAC) held in Manchester, UK in March 2007.
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An outline description of the issues, content, keynote speakers and participants of this conference is described.
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This conference covered the themes of recognising the need, advocacy, marketing and promotion, practical approaches to information literacy, information literacy and citizenship, new areas for practice and research, and ethical use of information.
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A conference report of value to library and information professionals regarding various information literacy themes, with links to two web site launches.
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a flavour of the content of the LILAC Conference held in London, UK in April 2011.
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a flavour of the content of the LILAC Conference held in London, UK in April 2011.
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This paper provides an outline of the content of the LILAC Conference, noting the key themes. The keynote speakers focused on the topics of the digital transition, school librarians and international indicators of information literacy.
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The conference involved over 70 papers and workshops covering both the theoretical and the practical, with delivery running over the three days of the conference in five parallel sessions.
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The conference provided an insight into the developing trends for information literacy.
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a flavour of the content of the LILAC conference held in the Republic of Ireland in March 2010.
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a flavour of the content of the LILAC conference held in the Republic of Ireland in March 2010.
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The paper provides an outline of the content, structure, issues and keynote speakers of the LILAC conference. The growing trend toward instant communication was as present at this conference with both Twitter and the Facebook LILAC sites available to attendees.
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The conference held a series of themed parallel sessions divided into five tracks – Making Connections, Developing the IL Practitioner, IL and Research, Innovative Practice and Measuring Impact.
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The conference provided an insight into emerging trends and developing resources for information literacy.
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Patrick Lo, Robert Sutherland, Wei-En Hsu and Russ Girsberger
The purpose of this paper is to provide a flavour of the content of the LILAC Conference held in Cardiff, UK, in March 2009.
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a flavour of the content of the LILAC Conference held in Cardiff, UK, in March 2009.
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The paper provides an outline of the issues, content, keynote speakers and delegates of the LILAC Conference.
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This conference held a series of themed parallel sessions and covered the themes of inquiry based learning, emerging technologies, information literacy for life and supporting research. There was evidence of strong demand for pre‐conference events.
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A conference report of value to library and information professionals regarding various information literacy themes.
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Reports on the CERLIM‐organized conference “Libraries Without Walls 7”, Lesvos, Greece, 14‐18 September 2007.
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Reports on the CERLIM‐organized conference “Libraries Without Walls 7”, Lesvos, Greece, 14‐18 September 2007.
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Reports from the viewpoint of a conference participant and presenter of a paper and gives an overview of the whole conference with more detail on some of the presented papers.
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The conference was worthwhile and enlightening, revealing the diversity of current developments in library service delivery worldwide.
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Of interest as a review of the conference.