There were several presentations at LILAC around the theme of how to develop information literacy in secondary schools. As this was the subject of my own NTF research, I tried to attend as many of the sessions as I could. Several were from the public library perspective. Anu Miettinen talked about how Vantaa Public Library in Finlamd has gone on to provide IL education for students’ of Vaskivuori Upper Secondary School. Lisa Thomas and Karen John explained the Porfolios and partnerships programme: a pilot information literacy project for secondary schools. Caerphilly Public Library Service developed a proposal to extend the information skills sessions to 14-16-year-olds in local secondary schools. Both presentations made me reflect on ways in which academic, public and schools libraries could be working more closely together in this area.

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