Information Literacy in the Inclusive Society 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:
- Information literacy and inclusive society
- Information literacy and inclusive education
- Information literacy and social change (trans/inter/multiculturalism, queer theory, feminist perspectives)
- Information literacy and challenging authority (public sphere, censorship,power (relations))
- Information literacy and democracy and active participation (citizenship, community engagement, democratic empowerement, informed agitation)
- Information literacy as empancipatory pedagogy
- Information literacy and radical librarianship
- Information literacy and lifelong learning
- Information literacy in theoretical context (models, standards, indicators)
- Information literacy and related concepts (transversal competencies, media literacy, data literacy, civic literacy, transliteracy, metaliteracy, e-literacy, digital literacy, computer literacy, scientific literacy, visual literacy, environmental literacy)
- Information literacy and sustainability
- 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 in the workplace
- Information literacy for different groups (adults, children, young people, disadvantaged groups)
- Information literacy and ethical/social issues
- Information literacy and emerging technologies
- Information literacy in the future