Reverted 1 edit by Ronharper9 identified as vandalism to last revision by Danski14. using TW ← Older revision Revision as of 04:18, 25 May 2007 Line 5: Line 5: Media centers are usually staffed by [[librarian]]s (or media specialists or [[teacher-librarian]]s) who hold a Masters of Library Science degree (sometimes this is known as a [...]

Think your library has problems? Check out the Haskell Library which is in both Canada and Vermont, USA. The United States and Canada have the largest undefended border in the world. It is not like either is going to invade the other anytime soon…But that war on terrorism…Yeah, there are good reasons for it. But [...]

Booking is still open for the i3 (“i-cubed”) international conference to be held at The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, 25-28 June 2007. This conference is concerned with the quality and effectiveness of the interaction between people and information and how this interaction can bring about change in individuals, organisations, communities and society. It should be [...]

I’m Norman Buchwald, and I am the Information Literacy and Technology Librarian at Chabot College, a community college in California. I’m finally inspired by two recent Web 2.0 technology workshops I attended (one I helped organize, too) and I’ve finally gotten myself to create a blog for the Library and create a custom search engine [...]

President Bush announced his intention to nominate Diane Auer Jones to serve as Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education. More: continued here

Secretary Spellings announced approval of two high-quality growth models, which follow the bright-line principles of No Child Left Behind. More: continued here

The video game violence research unit that I’ve mentioned before is part of a research component for our English composition classes. The library created and leads this unit in collaboration with our writing center and the faculty. It’s resulted in some interesting discussions from the students. My co-worker drafted an proposal for an article and [...]

UNESCO and IFLA have redesigned the Information Literacy Resources Directory. It now has a shiny new domain name too as http://www.infolitglobal.info/. I noted an error in the url of this blog and was pleased to see an edit and update option. Very nice! This is a good resource with tons of links to worthwhile information [...]

This is a week of “sharing practice” in learning and teaching at Sheffield Uni and I was giving a talk in an internal seminar called Advocating Inquiry Based Learning, specifically focusing on the use of the learning space refurbished using CILASS money. My talk was called Collaboratory in practice: Department of Information Studies: a case [...]

Reference/Systems Librarian (spotted on ALA’s Joblist)Briar Cliff University invites applications for a Reference/Systems Librarian position. This is a full-time, faculty status position at the Bishop Mueller Library, in Sioux City, IA. Primary Responsibilities: Participate in developing, instructing, and evaluating our information literacy program, provide general reference service, serve as system administrator for our online catalog, [...]