Archive for March, 2007

Information literacy education : the case study of escola politecnica da universidade de sao paulo – brazil

Dudziak, Elisabeth Adriana (2001) Information Literacy Education : the case study of Escola Politecnica da Universidade de Sao Paulo – Brazil. In Proceedings IFLA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, Boston. (Source: E-LIS) More: continued here

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External links ← Older revision Revision as of 19:53, 26 March 2007 Line 194: Line 194: ==External links== ==External links== -* [http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/objectivesinformation.htm American Library Association, Objectives for Information Literacy Instruction] +* [http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/informationliteracy.htm Information Literacy. American Library Association]  + * [http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/objectivesinformation.htm Objectives for Information Literacy Instruction. American Library Association.] * [http://www.ericdigests.org/1999-4/information.htm Information Literacy. Plotnick, E. ERIC [...]

Lilac conference

A brief blogging moment after the sessions at the LILAC (information literacy) conference, before the conference dinner. I was just in a session from Cathie Jackson (Senior Consultant, Information Literacy and Subject Librarian, Law, at Cardiff Univeristy). She was talking about the interactive subject guide they created on the Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal [...]

Element80 at 04:05, 27 march 2007

← Older revision Revision as of 04:05, 27 March 2007 Line 2: Line 2: [[Image:The Librarian.jpg|thumb|300px|"The Librarian", a [[1556]] painting by [[Giuseppe Arcimboldo]]]] [[Image:The Librarian.jpg|thumb|300px|"The Librarian", a [[1556]] painting by [[Giuseppe Arcimboldo]]]] -A ”’librarian”’ is an information professional trained in [[library science]]: the organization and management of information and service to people with information needs. [...]

Hdt83: reverted 1 edit by element80 identified as vandalism to last revision by birdieball.

Reverted 1 edit by Element80 identified as vandalism to last revision by Birdieball. ← Older revision Revision as of 04:05, 27 March 2007 Line 2: Line 2: [[Image:The Librarian.jpg|thumb|300px|"The Librarian", a [[1556]] painting by [[Giuseppe Arcimboldo]]]] [[Image:The Librarian.jpg|thumb|300px|"The Librarian", a [[1556]] painting by [[Giuseppe Arcimboldo]]]] -Librarians are hiding something! (TM) +A ”’librarian”’ is an information [...]

Links for 2007-03-27

Clearinghouse of Government Documents Digital Projects – GODORTExactly what it says, a clearinghouse of govdocs digital projects. They’re divided up by community size.(tags: digital.library govdocs inspiration)Thomas Eland, Personal InformationThis guy has some really neat ideas about information literacy.(tags: info.lit)Agency Approach to Locating Government Information(tags: tutorials govdocs)ALA | InfoTech Tips and TrendsACRL’s Instruction Section committee on [...]

New Company Turns Student Writers into Published Authors

reported by Jen Tilley, LiteracyNews.comMillions of adults have dreamed of being published, but it’s their children who can now live the dream, thanks to a new and unique company devoted exclusively to real publishing for students — Word Ventures, Inc. Word Ventures collects the writing of multiple students – usually from the same class or [...]

So you think you can spell?

reported by Emily Melina, LiteracyNews.comTELUS and CanWest CanSpell are inviting Canadians to “text for success” with the country’s brightest spelling bee finalists. During the live broadcast of the CanWest CanSpell National Spelling Bee Saturday, April 14, the TELUS Spell It contest will give viewers coast-to-coast the opportunity to compete along with Canada’s most brilliant spellers [...]

University of cape town centre for information literacy gets carnegie grant

News from the University of Cape Town is that UCT Centre for Information Literacy has been awarded a technical assistance grant of US$ 271 000 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York  in recognition of its capacity to strengthen the development and provision of high quality electronic information resources in libraries. (Source: SALibrariesinthenews) More: continued here

Got research? ut libraries’ research assist provides individualized assistance

The UT Libraries offers a service that provides individualized help to students with research projects. So whether you have a paper due for English class or a project in business, a librarian can help you plan your research process and identify sources.”Doing library research can be very challenging,” Jeanine Williamson, a reference librarian who founded [...]