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The Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC), since 2019 branded as LILAC: The Information Literacy Conference, organized by the Information Literacy Group of CILIP (The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals), is aimed at librarians and information professionals who teach information literacy skills, are interested in digital literacies and who want to improve the information seeking and evaluation skills of all library users whoever they may be. The conference incorporates keynote speeches and parallel sessions covering many different areas of the field, from school to academic libraries, from public sector to national libraries.

In conjunction with LILAC the Information Literacy Award (since 2008; formerly the CSG Information Literacy Award), the Digital Award of Information Literacy (2012-2020), and a Student Award (since 2009) are presented and the Information Literacy Group (ILG) annual general meeting is held.

Conference History:

20th LILAC 2026, 30 March – 1 April 2026, Sheffield, United Kingdom

(Host: University of Sheffield)

Conference program TBD

19th LILAC 2025, 14-16 April 2025, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Conference Theme: Celebrating 20 Years of the LILAC Conference
(Host: Cardiff University)

Keynotes:
Light at the end of the tunnel? Twenty Years of Information Literacy in the Politics Classroom.
Reflecting on Information Literacy: Lessons from a Lifelong Advocate
Data Citizenship: Learning to take action in the datafied society

Conference Workshops:
Using artificial intelligence/machine learning’s story telling capability to create and information literacy teaching resource
Enhancing AI Literacy and Responsible Use: Innovative Approaches for the Classroom
Inside the Artificial Parmakon: Observations from a Academic Librarian Engaging with GenAI through the Lens of information literacy
Librarians without borders: Opportunity and Hesitancy in Cooperative Virtual Reference
The Great Wellbeing Puzzle Quest: Transforming the library space for neurodivergent teens through playful learning
Punk Pedagogy and Information Literacy
Is Plagiarism Theft? Exploring and Developing Alternative Metaphors for Plagiarism
Race Across the Library; Desystifying the library space
Going Grey: Grey Literature Instructure in a Graduate Curriculum
UX for information literacy: the use of diaries to explore information seeking behaviours

Conference Sessions:
Titles n.a.

Posters

18th LILAC 2024, 25-27 March 2024, Leeds, United Kingdom

(Host: Leeds Beckett University)

Keynotes:
Artificial intelligence and Information Literacy: Seismic Shift or Passing Fad?
Teaching Critical AI Literacy
Playful and compassionate approaches for inclusive Information Literacy instruction.

Conference Workshops:
Never have I ever used Google Scholar”: hypocrisy and authenticity in library and academic skills teaching
Selling’ information literacy to the business school through alignment with the employability agenda in higher education
How collaborative reading techniques can develop information literacy: the magic of perspective
Moving beyond words – using photovoice to understand international students’ information literacy practicesHow do we support students on their reading journey through school, college and university?
Using memes in information literacy instructionLiberating the library through information creation: a ‘messy’ workshop

Panels:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and information literacy
Faculty development and the future of information literacy: a panel discussion

Conference Sessions:
Titles n.a.

Posters

17th LILAC 2023, 19-21 April 2023, Cambridge, United Kingdom

(Host: University of Cambridge)

Keynotes:
Accessibility – what does it mean for libraries and education?
Pivot ponderings: Musings about one library’s role in supporting tech-enhanced learning

Conference Workshops:
How to start well: Strategic beginnings to your next IL-focused position
Cartooning the Library: why and how to use applied comics for information literacy!
Using creative methods to explore feelings and emotions in library inductions
Exploring Open Pedagogy in a Credit-Bearing Library Course
Anchoring Information Literacy: co-creation across sectors
Think Before you Link, a Fake News Redux: Identifying bias and misinformation within online source evaluation
Searching for Change: Exploring Historical Silences and Counter Storytelling through Youth-Led Social Justice Movements
TILTing Research Assignments: Supporting Instructors to Develop Transparent and Equitable Assignments
Less is more – designing effective information literacy micro-learning materials
Mis-Information and Dis-Information on Social Media: What are we to do?

Panels:
New Professional Panel
Are referencing styles an oppressive information practice?
Information Literacy as a Practice for Survival

Conference Sessions:
Titles n.a.

Posters

16th LILAC 2022, 11-13 April 2022, Manchester, United Kingdom

Conference Theme: Moving Forward
(Host: Manchester Metropolitan University)

Note: The 16th LILAC was originally scheduled for 7-9 April 2021 and 6-8 April 2020 at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Keynotes:
Decolonisation as a means to creating an equitable future
Structure and Power: Information Literacy for Liberation

Conference Workshops:
Critical sustainability research workshop
Evaluating the impact of LILAC through long term reflections and inspiration mapping, a workshop to generate ideas
MILA Framework workshop

Panels:
Manchester Metropolitan University Student Panel
Prioritising Inclusion and Equity in Information Literacy Scholarship: A Panel Conversation with the Editors of CIL and JIL

Conference Sessions:
Titles n.a.

Meet the CILIP IL Group

FestivIL, 6-8 July, 2021, Online

Conference Theme: Bringing the information literacy community together online
(Host: CILIP ILG)

Note: The FestivIL is the alternative event for the postponed 16th LILAC, originally scheduled for 7-9 April 2021 and 6-8 April 2020 at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Keynotes:
Teaching the radical catalog
Information Literacy in the QAnon Era

Conference Masterclasses:
Making online Information Literacy teaching engaging, interactive and accessible
Learning to become an online editor: Wikipedia as a teaching & learning environment
Helping students “un-learn” search in order to learn it: teaching algorithmic bias to university students in an information literacy session
Copyright Dough: An interactive workshop based around a new Copyright game

Panels:
UCL Department of Information Studies Students Panel (Black Lives Matter, Brexit and Covid-19: Information literacy in a post-2020 world)
Developing a research agenda for Information Literacy
Hindsight 2020
Copyright, information literacy and criticality

Conference Sessions:
Lightning Talks
Journal Club
IL Talks
Wildcards
Campfire Conversations

Posters

15th LILAC 2019, 24-26 April 2019, Nottingham, United Kingdom

(Host: Engineering and Science Learning Centre, University of Nottingham)

Note: The Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) is rebranded to LILAC: The Information Literacy Conference

Keynotes:
Love Literacy, Love Libraries
Health literacy: information literacy for life
[Un]intended consequences of educational change: The need to focus on literacy development

Conference Sessions:
Titles n.a.

Panel discussions:
This could get messy: Critical library pedagogy in practice

14th LILAC 2018, 4-6 April 2018, Liverpool, United Kingdom

(Host: University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University)

Post-conference Mastercalsses:
Teaching referencing using Lego
Through the My Learning Essentials Looking Glass
Teaching information literacy in an active learning classroom
Swansea University Library’s Information Literacy Box of Tricks – one size does not fit all
How to do backward curriculum design

Conference Masterclasses:
Teaching referencing to students new to Higher Education
Information literacy services: planning and development in the midst of change
Let it be (a wiki): speaking words of wisdom about Wikipedia assignments in university courses
ANCIL and the reflexive practitioner: a masterclass
Maximising the impact of your LibGuides: taking the pedagogical approach to guide design
The Didactic Diamond – an information literacy model to explain the academic process in Higher Education
Nobody said it would be easy: innovative ideas for teaching information literacy as part of an academic skills programme
(Masterclass)

Keynotes:
The Elephant in the Room – why are information literacy skills not an essential part of the curriculum?
Putting theory to work in practice: unpacking information literacy with a conceptual toolbox from library and information science
Posthuman literacies: reframing relationships between information, technology and identity

Conference Sessions:
Titles n.a.

Posters
LILAC Lagadothon (CANCELLED?)

13th LILAC 2017, 10-12 April 2017, Swansea, United Kingdom

(Host: Swansea University)

Keynotes:
Making an impact beyond the library and information service
The library is open: librarians and information professionals as open practitioners
Authentic information literacy in a post-truth era

Conference Sessions:
Titles n.a.

Posters
LILAC Lagadothon

12th LILAC 2016, 21-23 March 2016, Dublin, Ireland

(Host: University College Dublin)

Keynotes:
What can play do for you?
Why reflect? The holistic practice of stepping back
Building digital capability in the library

Conference Sessions:
Titles n.a.
PC Cluster, Health Science Library

Posters
LILAC Lagadothon

11th LILAC 2015, 8-10 April 2015, Newcastle, United Kingdom

(Host: Newcastle University)

Keynotes:
There could be trouble ahead’. Threshold Concepts, Troublesome Knowledge and Information Literacy – a current debate.
Information Literacy and Trade Unions
The Liminal Library: Making Our Libraries Sites of Transformative Learning

Conference Themes:
Creative approaches to IL (Sponsor: Association of National Teaching Fellows)
IL for under 18s
IL and employability (Sponsor: Aberystwyth University)
Delivering IL through new technologies (Sponsor: York St John University)
Research based IL (Sponsor: University of Sheffield)
Outreach and collaboration

Posters
Teachmeet Presentations

LILAC Game

10th LILAC 2014, 23-25 April 2014, Sheffield, United Kingdom

(Host: Sheffield Hallam University)

Keynotes:
Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research
Information Science and the 10 Cultures
What value and benefits do we add? Why information professionals are essential to successful digital, health and information literacy delivery
Information Literacy and the New Era of Enlightment (Video address from Paul Zurkowski)

Conference Themes:
Innovative approaches to IL (Sponsor: York St John University)
Putting theory into practice (Sponsor: Aberystwyth University)
Transitions – IL from cradle to tomb
Outreach and collaboration (Sponsor: Information School, University of Sheffield)
IL on a shoestring
Health literacy (Sponsor: CILIP Health Libraries Group)

Posters
Teachmeet Presentations

9th LILAC 2013, 25-27 March 2013, Manchester, United Kingdom

(Host: University of Manchester Library)

Keynotes:
Learning 2.0: Digital pedagogy
Librarians and the 21st century: a personal view
Mainstreaming information literacy for the promotion of universal access to information

Conference Themes:
IL and employability (Sponsor: Department of Information Studies, Aberystwyth University)
IL and the digital future (Sponsor: Department of Information Studies, Aberystwyth University)
Transliteracy
Future-proofing the IL practitioner
Collaboration and partnerships (Sponsor: University of Manchester)
Active learning and creative pedagogical approaches

Posters
Teachmeet Presentations

8th LILAC 2012, 11-13 April 2012, Glasgow, United Kingdom

(Host: Glasgow Caledonian University)

Keynotes:
Assessing and communicating the impact of information literacy within institutions
Developing literacy in a digital age
The time has come for enforced intervention and a digital diet

Conference Themes:
IL and the digital future (Sponsor: Department of Information Studies, Aberystwyth University)
IL research
Supporting the research community
Transitions: from School through to Higher Education
IL and employability
Active learning and creative pedagogical approaches

Posters

7th LILAC 2011, 18-20h April 2011, London , United Kingdom

(Host: The British Library; London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE))

Pre-conference Workshops:
22nd Century Librarians and the death of information skills
Librarians on-the-go: teaming up with co-curricular units on campus to enhance the academic acculturation of international students @ their space
How to be a critical but constructive friend: reviewing and refereeing for journal articles and conference papers
RefWorks: Information Literacy for Lifelong Learning
Effective approaches to thinking like a researcher
Learning literacies through collaborative enquiry; collaborative enquiry through learning literacies
Reading lists, reading strategies and resource discovery
Creativity in practice: engaging students and staff with information literacy

Keynotes: (3)
n.a.

Conference Themes:
New to teaching (Sponsor: Department of Information Studies, Aberystwyth University)
Creativity in IL (Sponsor: Library Services, University of Birmingham)
Supporting excellence in the research community
IL in society: making a difference
IL in the future
Evidence based IL

Posters

6th LILAC 2010, 29-31 March 2010, Limerick, Ireland

(Host: Library Network Support Services, Limerick Institute of Technology)

Pre-conference workshops:
The concepts of informational process in collaborative projects
Library Network Support Services (LNSS): Developing the IL practitioner through collaboration, sharing, repurposing, reusing and not reinventing the wheel
Refworks: Changing one of the vehicles for Information Literacy
Teaching, assessing and evaluating information literacy programmes in post graduate HE
Changing user behaviour on the web what does this mean for the development of online information literacy tools?
Making a mark: Assessment for learning
Libraries & learning 2020: can technology save us and is information literacy (once again) making the wrong assumptions: a debate
Critical reflection: Strategies for encouraging your growth as a teacher
An introduction to student centred and active learning for the information literacy practitioner

Keynotes:
Information is as vital to the healthy functioning of communities as clean air, safe streets, good schools and public health
Lay information mediary behaviour and social information literacy
Evaluating the impact of information literacy

Conference Themes:
Developing the IL practitioner (Sponsor: The Open University)
Innovative Practice (Sponsor: Talis)
Making Connections (Sponsor: University of Worcester)
IL & Research (Sponsor: Cardiff University)
Measuring Impact (Sponsor: University of Bedfordshire)

Pecha Kucha Session
Posters

5th LILAC 2009, 30 March – 1 April 2009, Cardiff, United Kingdom

(Host: Cardiff University)

Pre-conference workshops:
n.a.

Keynotes:
Managing your flamingo
Technologising the HE learning space; red pill or blue?
Transforming education for next generation learners
From information literacy to digital citizenship

Conference Themes:
Inquiry based learning and IL (Sponsor: Centre Inquiry-Based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences, Sheffield University)
Emerging technologies (Sponsor: University of Bedfordshire)
Information literacy for life (Sponsor: University of Worcester)
Supporting research (Sponsor: Society of College, National and University Libraries)

4th LILAC 2008, 17-19 March 2008, Liverpool, United Kingdom

(Host: Liverpool John Moores University)

Pre-conference workshops:
n.a.

Keynotes:
“The library? Why would I go there?” – Library use by undergraduate students in China, India and Greece
Using library and museum materials in the pursuit of scientific literacy and public engagement
The development of a National Information Literacy Framework (Scotland): progress, barriers, constraints and opportunities
From spin to social justice: librarians in the ‘conceptual age’

Conference Themes:
Practical approaches to information literacy
Staff development and information literacy
The net generation
Diversity and social justice
Supporting researchers
Marketing information literacy

Sponsors presentation

3rd LILAC 2007, 26-28 March 2007, Manchestery, United Kingdom

(Host: Manchester Metropolitan University)

Keynotes:
If information literacy is the solution, what is the problem? If information literacy is the problem, what is the solution?
Clean clear knowledge can transform the health problems of the 21st century, just as clean clear water transformed the health problems of the 19th century
Information literacy models: from experience to practice
One literacy for all

Conference Themes:
New areas for practice and research
Recognising the need
Practical approaches to information literacy
Information literacy and citizenship
Ethical use of information
Advocacy, marketing and promotion

2nd LILAC 2006, 27-29 March 2006, Leeds, United Kingdom

(Host: University of Leeds)

Keynotes:
A world of contrasts
Information literacies: perspectives from research
Running amok with a chainsaw: an unexpected perspective on information literacy.
Libraries supporting learners – really?

Conference Themes:
New areas of practice and research
Strategic approaches to information literacy
Practical approaches to information literacy
Staff development and information literacy
Information literacy and citizenship
Embedding and enriching

Posters

1st LILAC 2005, 4-6 April 2005, London, United Kingdom

(Host: Imperial College London; Co-organizer: ASSIGN (ASLIB Social Science Special Interest Group and Network))

Keynotes:
Harnessing technology to the needs of education : What roles do library and information services play?
Information Literacy: Progress and Prospects for the UK
Student plagiarism: university librarians as part of the solution
A health check for Education in the 21st Century
Between the ‘e’ and the ‘i’
n.a. (2)
The librarian as information broker: the role of the school library in developing information literacy at Key Stage 3 and beyond

Conference themes:
Collaboration with in HE with academic staff
Plagiarism and copyright issues: new technology, new problems?
School librarians and key skills
Information literacy and e-learning
Widening participation: the role of the librarian

Conference Sessions:
Collaboration / e-learning and IL research
Information literacy and healthcare
Schools
Widening Participation
Collaboration and plagiarism
IL research
Collaboration
E-learning and IL

Poster Presentations