reported by Cynthia Brown, LiteracyNews.comPhil Yeh, often called the Godfather of the modern American Graphic Novel, will paint a new mural promoting literacy and the arts at the annual BookExpoAmerica convention on June 1-3, 2007 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City.Yeh, who founded Cartoonists Across America & The World in 1985, is [...]
reported by Sylvia Devon, LiteracyNews.comCommerce Bank is encouraging children to continue reading and learning during the summer months with its annual Summer Reading Program. This year’s program has a lemony-twist with a book that provides an inspirational message of hope and teaches important educational and financial literacy lessons. Throughout the week of April 30, more [...]
Corporate Library Benchmarks 2007 Edition presents a broad range of data, broken out by size and type of organization. Among the issues covered are: spending trends on books, magazines, journals, databases, CD-ROM, directories and other information vehicles, plans to augment or reduce the scope and size of the corporate library, hiring plans, salary spending and [...]
Have I mentioned recently how much MedWorm creator and LibWorm co-creator Frankie Dolan rocks? Let’s just make sure I cover that bit of housekeeping: Frankie Dolan Rocks.Moving on…Okay, say we want to search MedWorm for mentions of Ulcerative Colitis. When we get the search results, we now see a new option to “filter.”This produces a [...]
A University of Washington news site has the article Standardized testing of college students won’t work, says new book by UW researchers. It is about the book Inside the Undergraduate Experience by Catharine Hoffman Beyer, Gerald M. Gillmore and Andrew T. Fisher. I have not read the book but I think I will be looking [...]
Chaque année, New Media Consortium (NMC) et EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) publient un rapport de synthèse sur les principales technologies qui ont, d’une manière ou d’une autre, concerné l’enseignement supérieur.Educause Horizon Report 2007Résumé:”The 2007 Horizon Report looks at six selected areas–”User-Created Content,””Social Networking,””Mobile Phones,””Virtual Worlds,””New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication,” and “Massively Multiplayer Educational [...]
Secretary Spellings is seeking suggestions about school and campus safety as she develops recommendations for a report to the President. More: continued here
Secretary Spellings addressed the 2007 National Charter Schools Conference in Albuquerque, where she discussed President Bush’s proposals for reauthorizing No Child Left Behind this year, including provisions to enhance charter school availability and performance. More: continued here
Dans le numéro d’avril 2007 du JMLA, on trouve un article intéressant sur lerôle que peut avoir le bibliothécaire dans le domaine de la consommation ensanté (c’est vrai que c’est aussi un peu ma problématique du moment) dès lorsqu’il s’agit de faire des recherches expertes.Ruti Malis Volk, MSIExpert searching in consumer health: an important role [...]
Just an FYI:I have scanned all of the assignments in the HLHD’s assigment notebook at saved them at: W:\Everyone\Projects\Information Literacy\Assn Toolbox\Sample Assignments (Source: K-State Libraries: General Reference) More: continued here