The Information Literacy Section Newsletter is published twice a year.

This Winter Issue 2025 features 10 articles, with contributors from around the world. To reflect the diversity of perspectives, the issue is organized into three thematic sections.

  • The first section focuses on information literacy innovations in higher education, highlighting how academic libraries in Singapore, China, India, and Iran are advancing information and AI literacy through localized and innovative practices.
  • The second section explores information literacy in primary education, with case studies from Croatia and South Africa that illustrate both creative approaches and real-world challenges in school contexts.
  • The third section presents insights from international conferences, featuring key discussions from ECIL and the Information Literacy Section Satellite Meeting at WLIC 2025.

Articles in this issue:

  1. Report: Libraries at the Frontline of Equitable AI literacy (Maria de Brasdefer, IFLA officer)
  2. The Next Chapter in AI and Information Discovery in Academic Libraries: Three Trends Shaping the Information Literacy and AI Literacy at NUS Libraries in 2025 (NG Tao Tao Magdeline, et al., Singapore)
  3. Subject Librarian Reconstruction: Information Literacy-Driven Academic Support (Rende Li, China)
  4. Fostering Information Literacy at KIIT Deemed to be University, India, Libraries: Contribution from librarians (Payel Saha, India)
  5. Northeast Normal University Library Introduces Chinese Translation of Metaliteracy Series to Advance Information Literacy Education in China (Changhong Wu, China)
  6. Towards the Step-by-Step Development of IL: Experiences with IL programs at Semnan University (Rahman Marefat, Iran)
  7. E-Catalogue: An Interdisciplinary Connection (Ana Sudarević, Croatia)
  8. Where did all the teacher-librarians go? Supporting South African primary school teachers through information literacy · Part 1 (Michelle Coates, South Africa)
  9. A report from the ninth European Conference on Information Literacy (Almuth Gastinger, Norway)
  10. Information Literacy Section Satellite Meeting of WLIC 2025 at Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhastan (Naomy Mwaurah, Kenya)

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Newsletter: Information Literacy Section, Winter 2025

We are pleased to share the latest issue of the IFLA Information Literacy Section Newsletter, which brings together 10 contributions from different regions of the world. To reflect the diversity of perspectives, the issue is organized into three thematic sections.

The first section focuses on infor...