Newsletter: IFLA Information Literacy Section, Summer 2025

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The Information Literacy Section Newsletter is published twice a year. This Summer Issue 2025 features 12 articles, grouped into three thematic columns, with contributors from around the world, including Italy, China, Belgium, Bolivia, India, Cyprus, Trinidad & Tobago, Chile, Sri Lanka, and Croatia. These articles cover a variety of topics, focusing on diverse information literacy programs in different countries, including: information literacy education technology; media and information literacy assessment; AI literacy education and ethics; academic integrity; K-12 education and policy; data visualization and digital arts; community engagement and lifelong learning; as well as digital literacy, educational transformation, and library innovation. Articles in this issue: 1) IFLA MLCE Guidelines for Effective, Easy to Implement, low-to-no Resource Media Literacy Interventions for Libraries and Information Professionals; 2) Information Literacy Pathways to Promote Open Access Resources; 3) Information Literacy of Academic Integrity in the Age of AI; 4) China’s New Guidelines For K-12 AI Education: Differentiated Education, Equalized Education; 5) VISIONARTE TOOLS, Data Portraits: A Creative Window into Participation; 6) REMEDIS Toolkit Launch: Advancing a Europe of Skills through Media Literacy and Digital Empowerment; 7) Reconnecting With Your Culture (RWYC): A Global Approach to Promote Cultural Heritage Literacy; 8) UNIC Library: Cultivating Literacy from Early Childhood to University; 9) The Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (L.I.F.E.) at Chaguanas South Secondary School Library Media Centre (SLMC); 10) Digital Learning @Ghana’s Public Libraries Project: Tackling Information Literacy Gaps among High School Students; 11) KDU Library Network to Host Training of Trainers (ToT) Workshop for Reading Promotion at National Library, Sri Lanka; 12) A Journey into a Long Time Ago: Inquiry-Based Learning in the School Library.