Aim & Scope

Experiencing Information and Information Literacy being the main theme, ECIL aims to bring together researchers, information professionals, media specialists, educators, policy makers and all other related parties from around the world to exchange knowledge and experience and discuss recent developments and current challenges in both theory and practice.

Main topics of the Conference include (but not limited with) the following:

  • Experiencing information literacy
  • Experiencing information
  • Embodied information literacy experiencing
  • New paradigms, methods for information literacy research
  • New challenges to information literacy training, learning in online and hybrid settings
  • New challenges for remote work and information literacy
  • New forms of and approaches to IL training in times of crises
  • Information literacy in postpandemic era
  • Information literacy in social media context – experiencing literacies
  • Information literacy in post-truth era (misinformation, disinformation, fake news, alternative facts)
  • Critical thinking
  • Information literacy and democracy, citizenship, active participation
  • Information literacy, libraries, the public sphere
  • Information literacy and ethical/social issues
  • Information literacy in everyday life
  • Information literacy and digital empowerment
  • Information literacy and trans/inter/multiculturalism
  • Information literacy and community engagement
  • Information literacy and social change
  • Information literacy as emancipatory pedagogy
  • Information literacy and inclusive education
  • Information literacy and lifelong learning
  • Information literacy in theoretical context (models, standards, indicators)
  • Information literacy and related concepts (transversal competencies, media literacy, news literacy, data literacy, civic literacy, transliteracy, metaliteracy, e-literacy, digital literacy, computer literacy, scientific literacy, visual literacy)
  • Information literacy research (research strategies, methodology and methods)
  • Information seeking and information behavior
  • Information literacy good practices
  • Information literacy networks and networking
  • Information literacy policies and policy development
  • Information literacy and libraries (college and university libraries, school libraries, public libraries, special libraries)
  • Information literacy and LIS education
  • Information literacy and knowledge management
  • Information literacy across disciplines
  • Information literacy in different cultures and countries
  • Information literacy in different contexts (law, health, etc.)
  • Information literacy and education
  • Information literacy education in different sectors (K-12, higher education, vocational education)
  • Information literacy instruction (curriculum development, instructional design, teaching techniques and methods, Web-based training, e-learning, measurement and evaluation, promotion and marketing, training the trainers, partnership, collaboration across professions, teacher education, integrating into curricula)
  • Information literacy for different groups (adults, children, young people, disadvantaged groups)
  • Information literacy in the workplace
  • Information literacy and employability
  • Information literacy and organisational success
  • Information literacy and competitiveness
  • Information literacy and emerging technologies
  • Information literacy in the future