EXCITING THINGS ARE AFOOT (Check your LIS-LINK).

The Journal of Information Literacy has announced a new special issue on information literacy and censorship- please consider submitting your work! Given political tensions, we will be permitting pseudonymous submissions. Please contact me or @bookelf.bsky.social with questions- DMs open!

Seminar 2 of the LIS Research Seminar Series is now confirmed. Come and hear @patchedelbows.bsky.social talk about his brilliant research on HE librarians & social class. Some of you probably even contributed 😉 cassyni.com/series/KVXBf...

Just read this - it was shared on LinkedIn. ‘To my users, “we couldn’t generate an answer for your question” translates to “your topic is not worthy of pursuing—change it.”’ While it’s nice to think that students will come & ask when they don’t find results, many won’t. And the blocking of content…

New paper alert! ‘Shelves under siege: School librarians as (temporary?) risk workers’, uses the concept of risk work to explore the impact that the risks of censorship are having on professional school librarianship journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"It’s never been more important for us to ensure that libraries have the resources and support to create and defend diverse collections" Read @katiedd.bsky.social’s response to Reform’s attack on books: bylinetimes.com/2025/07/08/r...

Did you know that although Section 28 was repealed in 2003, Kent County Council was the only council in England which voted to uphold their own version of section 28 all the way up until 2010. Way before Reform existed.

Groundbreaking new #LIS study on how #publiclibraries serve #multilingual and #heritagelanguage communities by @victoriarend.bsky.social. UK-based public library workers: please consider participating and circulating! #LibraryResearch #LinguisticJustice #KnowledgeEquity #IntangibleCulturalHeritage

This is a horrifying move. Books for children have been through a thorough vetting process, and these collections have been curated for their communities.

The school library censorship convo has hit the House of Lords! Really pleased to see this conversation, following my @indexoncensorship.org investigation.

‪Restrictions to US databases and scholarly work mean that researchers need new approaches to navigate research absences and silences rather than the more typical information overload, writes @alisonhicks0.bsky.social‬: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/strat... #AcademicSky #EduSky

“Researchers will need to develop a raft of new techniques to adjust to censored information environments. These include becoming more deliberate about search strategies, as the list of words banned by federal agencies works to obscure the many ways in which human life is lived.”

Hey IL folks! If you thought censorship was just impacting school librarians, take a look at my new article in @timeshighered.bsky.social exploring what challenges to intellectual freedom mean for HE teaching librarians, too. How do we shift our work from overload to absence?

What an incredible exhibition! A great way to visualise library censorship. Thanks so much @alisonhicks0.bsky.social and @ioe.bsky.social for featuring my @indexoncensorship.org investigation.

Thanks to @ioe.bsky.social library for covering worrying growth in censorship in school libraries in their most recent exhibition! Featuring my research as well as the fabulous work of @katiedd.bsky.social 🙌🏼

*CW Discussion of sensitive themes inc. sexual assault* #CALC25 Recording no. 2 is up! This is Heather Barr talking about her research into the information behaviour of survivors of sexual assault. Incredibly important and difficult research. youtu.be/v4mTCO6PsMs #CritLit #LibrarySky

Happy publication day to me! My monograph, Risk-Informed Information Practice: Ways of Knowing in an Uncertain World is published open access in Routledge’s Global Perspectives on Library and Information Science series, today (Paperback, Hardback also available…) www.routledge.com/Risk-Informe...

Delighted to be included in UCL’s 2025 Student Choice Awards Roll of Honour—I’m honoured to be listed alongside fantastic colleagues Lucy Brownson, @alisonhicks0.bsky.social , @photini.bsky.social, Ahmad Goheer & Daniel Onah! What a way to end year! 🥳

🎬 Missed our free screening of Banned Together at UCL? Good news — the documentary is now available to stream! by rent or buy on Apple TV+ or stream for free if you have a Amazon Prime Video account: 📺 Apple TV+: lnkd.in/emu3X8dD 📺 Prime: lnkd.in/eMpP6wKW @cilip.bsky.social #BookBans #Documentary

Yes @ahaire.bsky.social ! Rocking it as usual! #lilac25

Can someone now make me feel less guilty about missing @ahaire.bsky.social and Richard Douglas’ #lilac25 talks by telling me how brilliantly they did?!

Fabulous session from Lucy Dodge- some super insightful findings about agency (contextualisation)+ identity of workplace IL (matchmaking, questioner) educators - big takeaway is that many still associate teaching with behaviourist (sage/stage) rather than constructivist approaches (mentor) #lilac25

Excellent session 👏 Also an additional learning moment for me when I find out why folks look the way they look when I sing (photo 2).

Such was my level of stress at committing to a session at UCL-a-rama time at #lilac25 (3 students presenting research IN THE SAME SLOT) that I ended up on the floor in the session I chose… #proudbutuncomfortablesupervisor

Great write up of @patchedelbows.bsky.social #lilac25 research from @pammckinney.bsky.social ! information-literacy.blogspot.com/2025/04/live... thanks Pam!

Also uncomfortable about encouraging people to not let the US crisis go to waste given the vicious attacks that various communities are facing #lilac25

I wish we could acknowledge the identity changes involved with graduate student information literacy #lilac25 - see this paper for an example scholar.google.com/citations?vi...

Can we stop equating IL with knowledge of resources? This is not what IL is! #lilac25

The two narratives of IL that @anniemlloyd.bsky.social and I found in professional literature can be found in this paper #lilac25 scholar.google.com/citations?vi...

Yep, very uncomfortable about equating the definition of IL with the Lords Prayer… let’s not go there, people #lilac25

Pleased that @ucl.ac.uk is sponsoring #lilac25 in Cardiff- please do approach me or @patchedelbows.bsky.social if you would like to talk about studying/researching information literacy at PhD or MA level with us!

Excellent presentation from my colleague @patchedelbows.bsky.social - on phd adjacent research if academic librarianship is over represented by middle class, what is impact on IL definitions, frameworks, standards etc? #lilac25

Honoured to have my research into school library bookbanning in the UK reported in the Guardian! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Successfully made it onto train number 4 on my way to #lilac2025 thinking it may just be quicker to swim the Bristol Channel tomorrow- anyone got a wetsuit they can lend me?!

A reminder of this exciting opportunity! The Journal of Information Literacy is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief. Find full details on our website, including role description and person specification: journals.cilip.org.uk/jil/announce... Apply by 31 March. #InfoLit #InformationLiteracy #CritLib 📚

Our CEO @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social is speaking on intellectual freedom & inclusion at UK premiere of Banned Together, documentary exploring book bans & curriculum censorship in US schools. Mon 24 Mar @cilipslg.bsky.social @bannedtogetherdoc.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/screening-...

📢 Call for Papers for Special Issue on Trauma-Informed Approaches to Archives and Records 📢 think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

First publication from my research into censorship challenges in UK school libraries is out! This article is a snapshot and more work is to come :) thanks to SLA for support.

Information Literacy is different for autistic people, they perceive and receive more information and social sources of information are processed differently.

You can now apply for the student award to attend #LILAC25. There are two places available.

Oxford’s one-year full-time traineeships provide an excellent launch pad for subsequent postgraduate qualifications & a professional career. For more on the scheme, see tinyurl.com/mr2ff78h

in doing research for a chapter called "Library science is the OG data science," I'm always stricken by just *how much* library lit out there that is always somehow omitted in contemporary data science discourse, and how much there is to learn from radical + progressive librarianship practice

*Fully Funded PhD opportunity* with me and Dr Deborah Lee on ‘Classification, representation and marginalisation in “English” folk music and dance’ #phd #arts #humanities #archives #folk #folkmusic #folkdance #englishness www.lahp.ac.uk/prospective-...

Fully funded PhD opportunity with me and Debbie Lee as lead supervisors on ‘Classification, representation and marginalisation in “English” folk music and dance: www.lahp.ac.uk/prospective-...

Very exciting times coming up! I'm going to be presenting my dissertation with NLISN on January 20th- book your place now. I combine info literacy and autism in this project that gave autistic librarians a chance to voice their realities of the workplace. @nlisn.bsky.social

New issue just out! Volume 18, No. 2 (2024) 4 research papers and 3 project reports on aspects of information literacy, information evaluation, managing mis/disinformation and IL instruction. 2 #LILAC24 reports 3 book reviews! All open access: journals.cilip.org.uk/jil/issue/vi... #InfoLit 🔓

Some really great research will be presented here - please come along to hear from these new professionals!

I'm really excited to be taking part in this event! The other dissertation topics look fascinating. Do come along if you want to see me talk about my dissertation: What does it mean to be information literate for an autistic person in the academic library workplace?

Delighted to announce an upcoming @infolitgroup.bsky.social event - New Voices in Information Literacy with 2 recent CityLIS graduates and two UCL LIS students speaking about their dissertation research: buytickets.at/cilipinforma...

Signal boost - help a librarian doing a PhD on the social background of librarians in UK universities! My marvellous friend and colleague, the incomparable @patchedelbows.bsky.social, is looking for respondents for a questionnaire - can you help? 📚 sites.google.com/view/librari...