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About librariangoddess

Former Librarian Goddess, now indexer, dog walker and cat snuggler

Talk to us! Two upcoming participatory events

Conference season is nearly upon us once again, and Jane and I are delighted to have had a proposal accepted for LILAC 2015. Along with Merinda Kaye Hensley and Sarah McNicol and Emily Shields of MMU, we’ll be giving a … Continue reading

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ANCIL across the Atlantic

We’re honoured (and excited) that ANCIL was chosen as one of four significant UK information literacy models described in detail by Justine Martin in her report, Learning from Recent British Information Literacy Models, which was submitted recently to ACRL’s Information Literacy … Continue reading

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And now for something … well, somewhat different

On 25 January Jane and I took part in the ARLG Librarians As Researchers event at York St John University. For a change, we weren’t talking about ANCIL or even information literacy, as such – rather, it was an opportunity … Continue reading

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Four seasons pizza

We’ve been fairly quiet recently – paradoxically, it’s because there’s a lot going on in world of ANCIL! First up, Jane and Katy have been doing an audit of information literacy provision for undergraduates at LSE, using ANCIL to map … Continue reading

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Blue skies: a new definition of information literacy

Yesterday the full ANCIL team (Jane, Emma, Katy and Helen, with support from John) gave the first in our series of 2012 conference appearances 🙂 We spoke at libraries@cambridge, the annual conference of – you got it – Cambridge libraries. … Continue reading

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Ongoing in 2012

A great start to the new year! We’ll be giving workshops about ANCIL at no fewer than four conferences in 2012. You can find me, Jane, Katy and Helen – or some combination of us – speaking at … libraries@cambridge: … Continue reading

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Information literacy for employers

On 12 December I attended an event at the University of West London called ‘Information as a Graduate Attribute: are employers getting a good deal?’. I was really keen to attend since Strand 10 of ANCIL deals with information literacy … Continue reading

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Empowering the Digital Natives: RCS Yorkshire and Humber conference

This Thursday 20 October Jane and I will be giving a workshop on the New Curriculum at the RSC Yorkshire and Humber Learning Resources conference. The whole event is entitled “Empowering the Digital Natives”, a theme that dovetails perfectly with … Continue reading

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