The European Conference on Information Literacy 2021 (ECIL2021) will be hosted by University of Bamberg as an online event between 20th and 23rd September 2021. Six members of the Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) have contributed to two outputs accepted for the conference.

Dr David Brazier will present a poster entitled ‘Information literacy workshops: trials and tribulations of public engagement within a pandemic’, co-authored with CSI colleagues Rachel Salzano and Dr Bruce Ryan. David will report on the team’s experience of transforming a project built around the delivery of in-person workshops on information literacy and online search best practice in a public library setting so that it could still be completed successfully during the first period of pandemic lockdown in 2020. David will also discuss the outputs of the transformed project: a series of video-tutorials that can be used in future in-person information literacy workshops. An abstract of the poster is available from the Edinburgh Napier repository.

Marina Milosheva will deliver a paper entitled ‘New information literacy horizons: making the case for career information literacy’. This work is co-authored with her PhD supervisors Professor Hazel Hall and Peter Cruickhank (CSI), and Dr Pete Robertson (of Edinburgh Napier’s School of Applied Sciences). Marina will present an analysis of the extant literature on information literacy and employability in general, and information literacy for the purposes of career development and learning in particular, to argue that ‘career information literacy’ should be incorporated as an additional and separate strand of information literacy scholarship. An abstract for the paper is available from the Edinburgh Napier repository.