📚 What can theatre teach us about book banning? Dr Alison Hicks reflects on a workshop that used Theatre of the Oppressed techniques to explore censorship, power, and the challenges facing school librarians. Read more: cilipslg.com/2026/06/15/s... #BannedBooks #FreedomToRead @cilip.bsky.social

Staging The Silence: A Workshop On Banned Books

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…

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JIL Editor-in-Chief, Alison Hicks, and previous Editorial Board member, Annemaree Lloyd, examine the case for treating #InformationLiteracy as a discipline. #InfoLit

Alison Hicks@alisonhicks0.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What is information literacy a discipline of? Annemaree Lloyd and I have long been sceptical of claims for IL disciplinarity + and we thought it vital these doubts were included as part of the conversation - initial thoughts here and watch this space for more! informationmatters.org/2026/06/clai...

Some initial thoughts after our LILac convos - so much more to say! @walkyouhome.bsky.social @bookelf.bsky.social

Alison Hicks@alisonhicks0.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What is information literacy a discipline of? Annemaree Lloyd and I have long been sceptical of claims for IL disciplinarity + and we thought it vital these doubts were included as part of the conversation - initial thoughts here and watch this space for more! informationmatters.org/2026/06/clai...

What is information literacy a discipline of? Annemaree Lloyd and I have long been sceptical of claims for IL disciplinarity + and we thought it vital these doubts were included as part of the conversation - initial thoughts here and watch this space for more! informationmatters.org/2026/06/clai...

Claims for Disciplinarity: If Information Literacy Is a Discipline, What Is It a Discipline Of? - Information Matters

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 ...

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A little thing on #infolit and #neurodiversity from @ahaire.bsky.social and I informationmatters.org/2026/05/neur...

Neurodiverse Perceptions of Information Literacy - Information Matters

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...

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Amazing work by the incredible @libthroughthis.bsky.social and others at the NEU! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Teachers vow to 'fight censorship' after school book row

The UK's largest education union says librarians have reported

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And particular congratulations to @qrielle.bsky.social and @madeleinehw.bsky.social for nailing this first IL conference presentation! #lilac26

LILAC Conference@lilacconf.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join @patchedelbows.bsky.social @alisonhicks0.bsky.social Arielle Ben-Itzhak & Madeleine Williams in Seminar Room 5 for a workshop exploring the practice of developing a personal teaching philosophy. A structured way to articulate beliefs, values, & approaches to teaching & learning. #LILAC26

Err, absolutely AI is racist and sexist… #wtf #lilac26

Two articles/researchers whose papers about political information literacy I really like (and bonus, they are based on actual research rather than click bait) are Simon Cloudesley and @walkyouhome.bsky.social . #lilac26 Try: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid... and scholar.google.com/citations?vi...

Pretty uncomfortable with fixes that don't address the structural and environmental context of mis/dis/mal information. It's like if we said with food safety, we'll teach everyone to use an epi-pen but not, you know, include proper ingredients lists. #lilac26

Hmmm....yes to media literacy, but the focus on just schools and young people? Adults and older people? #lilac26

Oh }>!$^€ don’t get me started on the problems with vaccines, pre-bunking and information literacy #lilac26

Interesting collaboration with X - which structurally enables so much misinformation #lilac26

Slightly uncomfortable with this (class based) denigration of south wales villages, which have been systematically screwed over /given up upon by UK government for decades. #lilac26

Debate yes, but what happens when society forces us to ‘debate’ our trans friends, family, colleagues’ right to exist, for example? No blame to young people for walking away from that ‘debate’ #lilac26

Really interested in thinking about how AI coincided with post covid recovery slump - when people are still recovering from major trauma, existential uncertainty etc. trauma as creating conditions in which sycophantic chat bots thrive #lilac26

Southport riots were also characterised by a lack of official information, which created the structural conditions that enabled disinformation to spread. Disinformation is also a structural not just an individual issue #lilac26

Believing 5G caused covid is also symptomatic of the lack of trust UK people has in the government- which was more than justified by party gate… Misinformation etc is a structural not just an individual issue #lilac26

Interesting that both keynotes have now referenced crisis. I’m still very wary about this, and tbh I think it limits IL thinking, research, discourse and teaching #lilac26 asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology | ASIS&T Journal | Wiley Online Library

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...

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Interesting focus on ‘wise’- several @jinfolit.bsky.social articles are exploring how IL can also not be ‘wise’ - also, questioning whose understanding of wise prevails #lilac26

In my understanding IL as a practice and IL as a discipline are fundamentally incompatible - I wish we could see more discussion about the ontological and epistemological roots of these ideas #lilac26

I hope we get to Batesons definition of information in this drive by - which is the one I find most useful for IL #lilac26

New day of LILAC conferencing! If anyone is interested in chatting to me about publication in @jinfolit.bsky.social please come and find me in the breaks (or I’ll be at the ILG stand at 3pm today) We are friendly, supportive and have lots of publication formats for your work! #LILAC26

As someone who loves methods chat, I’m really enjoying considering how speculative thinking can be used for information literacy research in @cocolibrarian.bsky.social and @heatherlincoln.bsky.social ‘s workshop! #lilac26

Yes, go Lea, recent UCL graduate!

LILAC Conference@lilacconf.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Lea Watson is in Lecture Theatre 1 exploring how health librarians use non-lecture-based teaching methods to develop #infolit skills among healthcare professionals. #LILAC26

Health librarians as friends, partners- or experts? Can you be all three? #lilac26

What about when medical providers create mis and disinformation? (Or governments) #lilac26

Aligning with lived experience is a great shout but how do standardised tests of health literacy access that? I don’t see much health IL research exploring said lived experience yet #lilac26

There’s a really great critique of evidence based language for information literacy. Does anyone have it? #lilac26

Hmm, missing reference there- it is Floridi who has argued that information environment is a social determinant of health www.jmir.org/2020/8/e19311/ #lilac26

Public Health in the Information Age: Recognizing the Infosphere as a Social Determinant of Health

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 ...

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