Secretary Spellings and the National Teacher of the Year, Andrea Peterson, discuss music, NCLB, and good teachers in this brief video. More: continued here

I have been thinking about this a lot lately and starting to talk to some people about it. I am happy to have found out that Leslie Burger, current ALA President and Princeton (NJ) Public Library Director is also interested in this and is looking (I believe) into ways of assessing and addressing it…..I just [...]

Hi everyone – and please forgive cross postings I am please to announce preliminary details on the 7th Annual Augustana Information Literacy in Academic Libraries Workshop! Date: Monday, December 10, 2007 (with some kind of optional social event or dinner on the evening of Sunday, December 9). Topic: TBA Workshop Presenter: Lisa Hinchliffe (Head, Undergraduate [...]

My four year old (Caleb) is on the front page of the local paper (Morning Sun) today. The whole family went to the Memorial Day Parade on Monday morning and had a good time. I use this parade every year to help teach the boys about American patriotism and the sacrifice of our soldiers. I [...]

From the Ubiquitous Librarian, Brian Mathews’ blog:This post isn’t about libraries, but rather in the realm of social information literacyI’ve seen a dramatic rise in phishing on MySpace lately. Many people are getting their accounts compromised. What I am most fascinated by is the fake-friend-hacking concept, the idea of “borrowing” someone’s identity with the sole [...]

This one-day course offers librarians in higher education the opportunity to stand back and consider where they are now with information literacy and to discuss options for enhancing their practice, including the most effective ways of using virtual learning environments. (Source: CILIP – Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) More: continued here

Hazel Edmunds emailed me recently about an article which she says is based on the book Teaching Defiance: Stories and strategies for activist educators.Newman, M. (2007) “Adult education and the home front.”Adults Learning, 18 (7), (probably pages 8-11, I found this info on another site; the publisher – see URL below – doesn’t give page [...]

State: Washington (State)POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: May 24, 2007POSITION TITLE: Assistant Professor — Information Literacy LibrarianLOCATION: Saint Martin’s University (Lacey, Washington)DEADLINE: Review begins June 22, 2007Saint Martin’s University invites applications for a full-time, year-round, tenure track faculty position to coordinate and build O’Grady Library’s instruction and reference programs. Recent graduates are encouraged to apply. The successful candidate [...]

This post isn’t about libraries, but rather in the realm of social information literacyI’ve seen a dramatic rise in phishing on MySpace lately. Many people are getting their accounts compromised. What I am most fascinated by is the fake-friend-hacking concept, the idea of “borrowing” someone’s identity with the sole purpose of advertising, and of course [...]

This is the first post of a series about my working week in Prague at Inforum 2007. It was my intension to write a post every day, but there are two reasons I could not live up to that.First of all it was the high temperatures in the city. At arrival it was already 27 [...]