Written by Dr Alison Hicks (Associate Professor, Department of Information Studies at University College London) What links paper masks, a copy of Making a Baby, and day-glo stickers?  No, these ob…

What is information literacy a discipline of? This short paper outlines why we, as information literacy scholars and ex-teaching librarians, reluctantly reject both the promise and the premise of the ...

In many academic and professional settings, IL is treated as something people either possess or lack. Once someone is qualified or trained, they are often assumed to be information literate by default...

The UK's largest education union says librarians have reported

Information literacy (IL) has been considered by Library and Information Studies (LIS) research and praxis to be vital in helping citizens be ‘informed’, ‘active’ and ‘engaged’ within society. LIS dis...

The concept of ‘information crisis’ is playing an increasingly prominent role within information studies literature and practice. Yet, the term is rarely defined and its meaning often remains both in...

Since 2016, social media companies and news providers have come under pressure to tackle the spread of political mis- and disinformation (MDI) online. However, despite evidence that online health MDI ...