Archive for March, 2007

If you were left wanting more… welcome

Welcome to everyone from today’s session at Iowa ACRL. I hope you take a few moments to explore, read, comment, & come back. You might as well sign up for the RSS feed while you are here too. Thank you for coming to the session and I hope that we can work together to find [...]

Grand theft information literacy – slideshow

Here is the slide show for my presentation at the Iowa ACRL conference. It’s focus is three fold: provide a framework of why games are relevant in education and in libraries; present how some libraries are using games; describe successful ways the University of Dubuque has started small. It’s expanded quite a bit from the [...]

Association of college and research libraries, information literacy

According to The Association of College and Research Libraries, Information Literacy’s website: http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/informationliteracy.htm, it provides such a vast of valuable information for librarians, students, and researchers. The layout of the information is clearly organized for first time users and frequent users. The website provides users with the overview, standards & guidelines, resources & ideas, professional [...]

Eblip

Volume 2 issue 1 of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice is available free at http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLipPhoto by Sheila Webber: Weston Park, Sheffield, March 2007. (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) More: continued here

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External links ← Older revision Revision as of 02:09, 26 March 2007 Line 202: Line 202: * [http://moodle.ed.uiuc.edu/wiked/index.php/Information_Literacy Information Literacy] * [http://moodle.ed.uiuc.edu/wiked/index.php/Information_Literacy Information Literacy] * [http://www.inrp.fr/vst/LettreVST/english/april2006_en.htm Information literacy] : a literature review by the scientific watch department of INRP (institut national de recherche pédagogique : national institute for educational research) * [http://www.inrp.fr/vst/LettreVST/english/april2006_en.htm Information literacy] : [...]

Research and information literacy librarian

Washington College (Maryland) (Source: Chronicle.com – Jobs in Librarians/library administration) More: continued here

Writing for publication

Writing for publication was the title of a one-hour workshop that I facilitated at the LILAC (information literacy) conference in Manchester , UK, today. It was for people who wanted to write and publish more. I set up a little wiki, using pbwiki, which houses the handouts and now also a record of points that [...]

Evidence based library and information practice (vol. 2, n°1)

Le dernier n° de la revue en ligne et en libre accès Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (vol. 2, n°1)* est disponible.TdM- Interested in Research? Start Here- Identifying Appropriate Quantitative Study Designs for Library Research- Evidence-Based Practice and Qualitative Research: A Primer for Library and Information Professionals- Navigating the Road to Success: Guidelines for [...]

A national information literacy framework

The first draft of the (Scottish) National Information Literacy Framework is now available (Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog) More: continued here

Debating the future of the reference desk

If you want to get into a contentious discussion with a reference librarian, suggest that you think it’s time to get rid of the reference desk. In my last post I mentioned the debate about the reference desk at Columbia University in which I participated. I should mention that my fellow debater was Sarah Watstein, [...]