Serap Kurbanoğlu
Hacettepe University
Department of Information Management, Ankara, Turkey
kurbanogluserap@gmail.com
doi: 10.19090/cit.2018.32.35-41
No. 32 (May 2018), p. 35-41
European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL)
Summary
The European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL) aims to bring together researchers, information professionals,
employers, media specialists, educators, policy makers and all the other related parties from around the world in order to
exchange knowledge and experience and discuss recent developments and current challenges in and related to information
literacy (IL). ECIL’s mission is to provide an annual forum for individuals interested in IL, where they would share information
about their research and practice. The fi rst conference was organized by Hacettepe University, in Istanbul, Turkey, between
22–25 October 2013. The sixth conference is on its way. It will be hosted by the University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, from 24–27
September 2018.
Both the international dimension and the research-practice nexus make ECIL diff erent from the other IL-focused events in
Europe. As an event rather than an organization, ECIL is also situated in the enviable position of not being subject to bylaws or
structure that might restrict its focus or voice.
Keywords:
information literacy, European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL), mission, aim and scope, organization,
annual forum, researchers, practitioners, Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University (Turkey), Department
of Information and Communication Sciences of the University of Zagreb (Croatia)
Submitted: 17th March 2018
Accepted for publication: 5th April 2018
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