Aim & Scope

ECIL aims to bring together researchers, information professionals, media specialists, educators, and policy makers from around the world. It offers a global forum to exchange knowledge, share experiences, and address emerging developments and challenges in both theory and practice. The main theme of the conference is Information Literacy: Looking Back, Moving Forward.

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

  • Future directions in information literacy
  • Information literacy and AI
  • Experiencing information literacy
  • Disinformation literacy (e.g. misinformation, disinformation, fake news)
  • 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 (e.g. models, standards, indicators)
  • Information literacy and related concepts (e.g. media literacy, news literacy, data literacy)
  • Information literacy research (e.g. research strategies, methodology and methods)
  • Information seeking and information behaviour
  • Information literacy good practices
  • Information literacy networks and networking
  • Information literacy policies and policy development
  • Information literacy and 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 (e.g. law, health, etc.)
  • Information literacy and education
  • Information literacy instruction  
  • Information literacy for different groups (e.g. adults, children, disadvantaged groups)
  • Information literacy in the workplace
  • Information literacy and employability
  • Information literacy and organizational success
  • Information literacy and competitiveness
  • Information literacy and emerging technologies