On The Move event report

We were very happy to greet around 75 enthusiastic librarians and careers professionals from around the country to UCL on Friday 2nd Feb last week to the "On The Move: transitioning information skills into the workplace" event. We heard great talks by Marc Forster, Megan Wiley, Laura Brammar and Rosalind Kemp about their perspectives on workplace …

On The Move: transitioning information skills into the workplace Friday Feb 2nd 2018

We've been setting up an event (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-the-move-transitioning-information-skills-into-the-workplace-tickets-41380256461) and have been overwhelmed by the number of people who have signed up over the last few weeks. Luckily we were able to find a larger room than the one we had originally booked and we're really looking forward to meeting all the librarians and careers staff and …

European Conference on Information Literacy, St Malo, Sep 18-21 2017

I didn't come to St Malo just for the beautiful city, the great food, the marvellous company, the classic car show and the rock'n'roll music. Really. I'm very happy to be presenting at ECIL this year, my first time at the conference. I'll be talking about the On The Move project, and looking at some …

What happens in Vegas…informs our research

Guest blog from Co-investigator in On The Move: Dr Sophia Donaldson, UCL Careers. Last week I  presented On The Move to higher education careers professionals, and a small number of employers, at the NACE (National Association of Colleges and Employers) annual conference in Las Vegas, NV. Just like me before this project, most of them …

On The Move: update

We've been collecting and analysing data for a while now for On The Move. Once we received our funding notification from the CILIP Information Literacy Group last year we quickly approached our contacts in the City and arranged numerous interviews with insurance practitioners, asking them about 'effective information use' in the profession. We also asked a …