John Bylberg made a good point when he said the other day:I’ve often thought (and I’m sure I’m not alone) that the future of libraries rest in the hands of our children’s librarians. It’s actually quite poignant how that army of burden has been routed to a group of librarians who probably never considered that [...]

Secretary Spellings delivered remarks at the annual Celebration of Teaching and Learning conference in New York, where she discussed the important role of teachers in fostering strong science and technology education and how No Child Left Behind can help teachers customize instruction and raise student achievement. More: continued here

I found the interesting article (Assessing Library Skills: A First Step to Information Literacy) at Portal: Libraries and the Academy. It is by Joanna M. Burkhardt. In it, she is describing an information literacy course at the University of Rhode Island. It sounds a lot like LIB 197 at Central Michigan University.From the abstract:As part [...]

Whew! What a day! I’ve just finished up the first day of my first UNC TLT Conference. I saw some familiar faces, and met a few people too. It’s a good time.Like most conferences, some sessions totally get you totally revved up. My favorite happened to be a presentation by a few UNCG folks, “New [...]

CRL and the Institute for Information Literacy Executive Committee are seeking ACRL member volunteers with a strong foundation in information literacy concepts and standards to serve as Information Literacy Consultants to ACRL units that are developing subject-specific information literacy standards.RESPONSIBILITIESThe Information Literacy Consultant will work closely with the ACRL unit in the creation of a [...]

Published a few days ago. It says “This document deliberately contains very little analysis of the data as I’m interested to hear what other interpret from the charts” – perhaps they will be willing to share the JISC grant money too )White, D. (2007) Results of the ‘Online Tool Use Survey’ undertaken by the JISC [...]

There is a call for chapters for a book called Using Technology to Teach Information Literacy, to be published in early 2008 by Neal-Schuman. They want “chapters co-authored by librarian and faculty teams that applied technology to teach information literacy. We are especially interested in novel approaches to information literacy and technology instruction”. Please send [...]

In 1990, Tom Eadie wrote an article in Library Journal titled Immodest proposals – User instruction for students does not work. It was a shocking piece at the time, almost a heresy. This was long before people like Stanely Wilder ever started criticizing information literacy and other user education programs in the Chronicle of Higher [...]

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Dudziak, Elisabeth Adriana (2006) Information literacy as an emancipatory process directed to social inclusion in a knowledge society . In Proceedings IFLA General Conference and Council World Library and Information Congress, 72, Seoul, South Korea. (Source: E-LIS) More: continued here