Cardiff University, 14-16 April 2025
Cardiff University, 14-16 April 2025
Infobase creates and curates reliable educational resources and digital tools.
Infobase offers the only INFORMATION LITERACY (IL) solution designed specifically for higher education libraries. Our ‘Credo Information Literacy - Core Package’ contains 100+ customizable e-learning objects such as video and quizzes as well as text.
New content for 2025 includes Teaching Resources: AI Literacy, offering activities and discussion prompts related to generative AI. These aim to help students understand the possible pitfalls of using AI and the best ways to use it ethically and responsibly where they are allowed to do so. New IL content is added regularly as technology and best practises evolve.
Student DATA from the Credo platform helps show faculty and administration that information literacy instruction can have a positive impact on students’ success, persistence and retention. Credo analytics supports the larger narrative about the value of your library’s work and its place in the institution.
CREDO REFERENCE is licensed with JISC. Infolit Core plus other Infobase products (Blooms Literature and Films On Demand) will be added soon.
ADOPTERS: Already widely adopted across the US, Infolit Core is now installed at The University of London and being offered across the UK, with free trials available for libraries and faculty.
Visit the website for more information and to request a trial: https://infobase.com/products/information-literacy-core
Partners for the UK and LILAC 2025 are Digital Content Associates. Barney and Nicola look forward to meeting you in Cardiff!
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(https://infobase.com/higher-education/)
The Social History Archive empowers academic researchers and students with unparalleled access to British and Irish historical content. Our comprehensive collection spans centuries, offering invaluable insights into social, political, and cultural developments across the UK, Ireland, and beyond.
Newspapers: A Window to the Past
Our archive features over 1,800 British Library newspaper titles and nearly 50 million pages of historical content. As the British Library’s official newspaper publishing partner for over a decade, we’re making this vast collection available to academic institutions at scale for the first time. The archive covers the UK, Ireland and Commonwealth, providing a broad perspective on British and Irish history.
Records: Unveiling Hidden Histories
SHA offers a comprehensive online archive of British and Irish records, including over 2500 record sets. This resource comprises census data, military records, court and prison data, migration information, and extensive parish and state records.
Empowering Academic Excellence
The Social History Archive is a gateway to groundbreaking research and
transformative learning experiences. By providing access to this repository of
primary sources, we aim to foster academic excellence, inspire new perspectives, and advance historical scholarship.
Explore the Social History Archive and discover how it can enrich your institution’s research and teaching output. Visit our website at https://www.thesocialhistoryarchive.com/ to learn more.
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(https://www.thesocialhistoryarchive.com)
EBSCO offers high-quality information resources and technology solutions to help academic, medical, corporate and public/community libraries build and manage their collections, meet their patron’s information needs, promote lifelong learning, and transform lives. Providing access to books, eBooks, journals, magazines, and various reference resources alongside user-friendly search platforms, a managed open-source library system (FOLIO) and through our linked-data technology solution (Bibliograph) which transforms the visibility of library catalogues on the web, EBSCO is ideally placed to work with all libraries. For more information on EBSCO’s resources, please visit www.ebsco.com
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(https://www.ebsco.com/)
Content Online is the go-to source for academic and medical institutions, schools, public libraries, corporations and government agencies to access leading and essential research from world-renowned publishers. Welcome to our world of digital research, journals, standards, eBooks, eLearning and archives. We’re here to supercharge your research in record time with the most complete resources at your fingertips.
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(https://contentonline.com/)
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AM’s digital collections and technology platforms enrich the study, research and teaching of primary sources. With over 30 years’ experience working with librarians, educators and archivists, AM is inspired by archival materials and passionate about the technology that brings them to life. AM partners with libraries, archives and heritage institutions to digitise the world’s historical and cultural knowledge. With AM, customers can discover award-winning archival collections, learn how to use them, or create their own.
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(https://www.amdigital.co.uk)
We at PTFS Europe are the UK open source library solutions experts. Like libraries, open source is about community and sharing, providing many benefits including: value for money, fantastic green credentials, easy integrations, and an incredibly fast pace of development and enhancement. There’s a whole open source international community supporting the enhancement and development of the software we work with.
When you join us as a customer you will not be purchasing software - you instead gain expertise of developers, trainers and data migration experts. Free annual updates and a secure hosted, ISO27001-accredited solution that fulfills your data protection and security requirements. All with responsive UK-based service support.
We support and host a range of open source library solutions including:
KOHA LMS: Fully featured, intuitive and scalable for small libraries to huge consortia and used by over 7000 libraries worldwide.
ASPEN DISCOVERY: Aspen expands upon the traditional discovery service offerings of database and subscription access by allowing websites to be indexed to the search.
LiDA app, bringing Aspen to your customers mobile devices.
METABASE ANALYTICS: Metabase adds powerful graphics to display the impact of your library service and can combine Koha reports with external data to self-updating dashboards for easy sharing.
We proudly work with customers across all UK library sectors, including public, academic, health, governmental, museum, law and special libraries. Find out more about what we do at www.ptfs-europe.com.
Please pop by and see Helen and Sam at LILAC2025, we look forward to seeing you soon!
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(https://ptfs-europe.com/)
anybook.com is a second-hand book company, established in 1998 in Greenwich, in a small room sandwiched between a travel agent and a post office – which turned out rather handy!
Over 25 years later, we are working with hundreds of academic libraries across the United Kingdom.
We specialise in taking withdrawn library stock, selling it on the internet, and giving a portion of the profits back to the libraries.
We are not a charity. We aim to generate the most income from a library's withdrawn stock in order to give the most back.
We will take books with or without ISBNs, in any condition.
We do not charge for our services.
We use our own vans and drivers.
We do not require you to send lists of books in advance.
We recycle only as a last resort. We do not use landfill.
If you sign up, you may use us as much or as little as you would like – you are not bound by any contract.
If you might be interested in using anybook.com, please do not hesitate to get in touch!
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(https://www.anybook.com/)
TDNet is working to revolutionize how information is managed and discovered. We are a trusted partner to academic, healthcare, research, and corporate libraries and information centers worldwide. Our mission is to empower libraries to better serve their patrons and achieve their strategic goals – advancing research, education, and innovation.
TDNet combines content with cutting-edge technology to optimize resource discovery and delivery, enhance user experience, and streamline library workflows. Our solutions make it easy for libraries to manage and showcase their content and services, offering users a unified gateway to all available resources – accessible anytime, anywhere, and on any device. By providing a centralized hub to a wealth of trusted resources and leveraging cutting-edge AI-powered search technology, TDNet helps organizations boost research efficiency, enhance learning, and drive scientific discovery.
TDNet is committed to excellent service and customizing solutions to meet the needs of individual libraries and knowledge centers. We partner with content providers, service vendors, and technology leaders worldwide to offer integrated solutions that empower our customers to stay ahead in an increasingly digital world.
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(https://www.tdnet.com)
Since our foundation as the first British School of Librarianship in 1919, UCL Department of Information Studies has offered professionally grounded education that combines a unique portfolio of programmes in Library and information studies, Knowledge, information and data science, Archives and records management, Publishing, and Digital humanities.
We were one of the first British library schools to provide a standalone information literacy module, and we offer information literacy focused placements and professional development events in conjunction with local practitioners. The MA Library and information studies programme also provides an opportunity to study with research staff who are world leaders in information literacy research. Dr Alison Hicks leads research into academic, every-day, health and critical information literacy as well as serving as the current editor of the Journal of Information Literacy, while Dr Charles Inskip has made several contributions to workplace and employability scholarship. This year we have launched a BSc Information in Society, which seeks to equip students with practical knowledge from both the humanities and technology, along with a thorough understanding of the crucial role of information, data and evidence in society. We welcome enquiries from BSc, MA, PGDip and PhD students looking to build and extend their engagement with information literacy research and practice.
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(https://www.ucl.ac.uk/information-studies/department-information-studies-faculty-arts-humanities)
Facet Publishing is the global publisher of books for library, information and heritage professionals worldwide, and the publishing arm of CILIP. We publish a range of titles for practitioners, researchers and students authored by some of the leading minds in the field with a commitment to publishing quality content that advances our disciplines.
Literacy publications are the cornerstone of our programme, and it is an area that we are committed to expanding further. Our publications include Alison Hicks, Annemaree Lloyd and Ola Pilerot’s Information Literacy Through Theory; Andrew Whitworth’s Mapping Information Landscapes, and Jake Hope’s visual literacy primer Seeing Sense, illustrated by Chris Riddell.
Information literacy also underpins so much of our broader output – especially our growing offering in the area of critical librarianship. Marilyn Clarke, one of the keynote speakers at LILAC 2022, contributed a fantastic chapter on Goldsmith’s Liberate Our Library initiative to our edited collection Narrative Expansions: Interpreting Decolonisation in Academic Libraries, premised upon the field of critical information literacy.
We are always on the lookout for ways that we can improve and expand our programme. If you have an idea, please get in touch with us at info@facetpublishing.co.uk.
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(https://facetpublishing.co.uk/)
The Information Literacy Group (ILG) is a CILIP Special Interest Group that encourages debate and the exchange of knowledge in all aspects of information literacy.
The group aims to:
- provide a forum for discussion
- disseminate information about local, national and international initiatives
- encourage the publication of articles, both nationally and internationally, which share new ideas, initiatives and experience
- encourage collaboration and support across all sectors of the profession
- highlight and promote good practice
The group achieves these aims by:
- maintaining an active email list: lis-infoliteracy
- organising LILAC: the Information Literacy Conference
- publishing the Journal of Information Literacy (JIL)
- maintaining the Information Literacy website
- highlighting effective practice through the annual Information Literacy Award
- organising meetings, seminars and training events
- sharing useful resources
- sponsoring IL events
- working in partnership with other relevant organisations and agencies, for example, the Media and Information Literacy Alliance.
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(https://infolit.org.uk/)
CILIP is the UK’s library and information association. We work to improve services, develop our members’ expertise and champion the sector. We are the leading voice for the information, knowledge management and library profession. We’re here for everyone who has a professional connection to information, knowledge, data and libraries, and shares our belief in their power to change lives. Our purpose is to unite, support and empower information professionals across all sectors. Our mission is to put library and information skills and professional values at the heart of an equal, democratic and prosperous society.
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(https://www.cilip.org.uk/)
LILAC is great opportunity for our fellow professionals to present their ideas, share best practice and show case new thinking in our sector. If you have an idea then we'd love to hear about it. We have many options for the types of sessions you might run from a symposium to a workshop. Visit our Call for Presentations page to find out how to apply.
Places at this year's conference are likely to be in demand more than ever before. Each year our conference grows increasingly popular and this year promises to be no different. Don't miss out and book your place now for this year's conference.
We look forward to seeing you there!
