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Everything’s coming up LILACs 

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This is a slightly tongue-in-cheek report on the LILAC 2024 conference, held in Leeds Becket University from Monday 25th to Wednesday 27th March 2024.

The seven rules of LILAC

With apologies to Chuck Palahniuk, and thanks to two anonymous posters

  1. You do talk about LILAC.
  2. You do talk about LILAC!
  3. But when the session-chair says stop, you stop.
  4. As many presenters as you want. And any colour you like, so long as it’s LILAC.
  5. At least two parallel sessions at a time – and you’ll want to go to all of them. Put thyself through a 3-D photocopier.
  6. Present with activities (Padlets, Menti, Slido, post-its, sharpies: all that good stuff)
  7. Revere Queen Jane and her court.
  8. If this is your first time at LILAC (even if it’s not), party until it’s pumpkin-time. LILACers don’t get hangovers.

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The power of audio – presenting archives via podcasts: submission accepted for Shaking the archives conference, Edinburgh, June 2023

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Along with my colleagues Professor Hazel Hall, Marianne Wilson, and Dr Iain McGregor, I am delighted that the submission that we made earlier this year to the Shaking the archive – reconsidering the role of archives in contemporary society conference has been accepted.

This conference takes place at Queen Margaret University Edinburgh between 23rd and 25th June 2023. Delegates at this hybrid, multidisciplinary event will discuss the power of/within archives, while also exploring ways in which archives may be interrogated, re-imagined, and represented.

Please read more about our submission on Hazel’s post. Meanwhile, I look forward to 3 days of interesting discussions. As an information scientist, specifically interested in information literacy (IL), I begin to wonder how IL theory and practice can be used to engage with archives. A very, very quick online search didn’t bring up any hits, so perhaps there is a research gap here. Of course I stand ready to be proven wrong!