Digital literacy in libraries

CILIP Information Literacy Group and CILIP Multimedia, Information and Technology Group

Join the Information Literacy Group and the Multimedia, Information and Technology Group for a day long conference of seminar talks and activities from digital literacy experts from across several different areas of the library and information sector.
 
Are you currently involved in developing, supporting and delivering digital literacy skills in your library? Are you engaged in developing information literacy frameworks which include digital literacy (and vice-versa)? Do you want to find out more about what others are doing in this area and to what level? Then this conference is for you. Our speakers will enlighten you as to how their services are involved in and support the digital literacy agendas in their respective institutions and sectors.
Programme
09:30 – Registration / refreshments
10:00 – Opening and welcome – Leo Appleton (University of the Arts London and chair of MmIT)
10:05 - Extending Digital Literacy - Luke Burton (Digital Transformation Manager, Newcastle Libraries)
10:45 –  Digital literacy in the NHS - Kearan Lamb (Knowledge and Library Service Manager,Stockport NHS Trust)
11: 25 – Coffee break
11:40 – Technology, digital capabilities and the language of change – David Walker (Head of Technology Enhanced Learning, University of Sussex)
12:20 – Building Digital capability  - Adam Micklethwaite (Tinder Foundation, Director of Business and Innovation)
13:00 – Lunch
13:45 – Building a digital nirvana - Moira Wright, (Digital Literacy Officer, University College London)
14:30 – The role public libraries play in supporting digital literacy - Jacquie Widdowson (Blackburn with Darwen Library Service and Chair of the Public and Mobile Libraries Group)
15: 10 – Evaluating the impact of digital literacy programmes: lessons from student ambassadors? -
Jane Secker, (London School of Economics and chair of ILG) and Sonia Gomes (London School of Economics Library)
15: 50 – Closing remarks
16:00 - Close
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