Our sponsors
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Strategic Sponsor
The UCL Department of Information Studies is celebrating 100 years since our foundation as the first British School of Librarianship!
Throughout the decades, we have offered professionally grounded education that brings together a unique portfolio of programmes in library and information studies, information science, archives and records management, publishing and digital humanities. Our most recent focus has been the development of an MA and PhD programme that offer the opportunity to specialise in information literacy. We are one of the few British library schools to offer a standalone information literacy module, and we offer information literacy focused placements and professional development events in conjunction with local practitioners.
The programme also offers the opportunity to study with research staff who are world leaders in the field of information literacy research; Professor Annemaree Lloyd has irrevocably shaped the state of workplace, health and community information literacy scholarship while Dr Alison Hicks and Dr Charles Inskip continue to make vital contributions to the teaching and practice of information literacy in academic settings as well as other contexts. We welcome enquiries from MA, PGDip and PhD students looking to build and extend their engagement with information literacy research and practice.
Award Sponsor
The Information School at The University of Sheffield is a thriving community of students, educators and researchers dedicated to the study and advancement of the information field and its professions. The school is ranked Number One in the World for Library and Information Management in the QS World Rankings by Subject 2021. We are recognised as the leading school of our kind in the UK, with an international reputation for the quality of our teaching and research, and for the achievements of our graduates.
Our students develop the skills and knowledge that today’s workplace needs. We encourage our students to undertake dissertation projects with external organisations and they often deal directly with contemporary issues of practice in industry. Our courses have been developed in close liaison with the relevant professional bodies and most are fully accredited by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP).
For individuals who are already in employment, we offer a range of exciting professional enhancement programmes that relate closely to professional practice. Some of our courses can also be taken as Postgraduate Certificates or Postgraduate Diplomas and on a full- or part-time basis.
Session sponsor (Tuesday 6th July)
Adam Matthew Digital is an award-winning publisher of primary source content with 30 years’ experience identifying and making accessible primary resource collections from leading archives and libraries around the world. Each year it publishes new, relevant digital primary source collections that span a wide variety of topics ranging from gender and sexuality, literature, art, politics, war, business, popular culture, and more.
As its guiding philosophy, AM Digital believes that at the heart of education is the freedom to think critically and harnesses the latest technologies to reimagine collections to empower current and future generations to challenge, analyse and debate. This commitment to fostering critical thinking skills has led to the development of Research Methods Primary Sources, an online learning tool for primary source literacy that underpins key research concepts across the humanities and social sciences. Using peer-reviewed essays on how to evaluate sources and understand underrepresented voices, as well as case studies, data sets and practice sources, Research Methods Primary Sources will support teaching in both face-to-face and online learning environments.
Session sponsor (Wednesday 7th July)
EBSCO supports libraries, students and the wider academic community through subscriptions to online journal, magazine and eBook content within our full text databases as well as acquisition tools to support the individual selection of serials (EBSCONET) along with print and eBooks for outright purchase (GOBI). EBSCO specialises in search and discovery through individual subject indexes or via EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) to serve the needs of researchers at all levels. Advocating ‘open’ technologies, we have pioneered the creation of a ground breaking Library system (FOLIO) and supported emerging technologies in the research workflow sphere (Code Ocean and protocols.io).
