Standards – – Capitalization. ↠Older revision Revision as of 17:23, 28 August 2007 Line 99: Line 99: An analysis of national content standards documents reveals that they all focus on lifelong learning, the ability to think critically, and on the use of new and existing information for problem solving. In K-12 education, national standards [...]
A reminder about about Google’s main blog at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/, which also links to the loads of more specialist blogs they do, including the Librarian central blog aimed at librarians at http://librariancentral.blogspot.com/ and the Google news blog (about the Google news search) http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/.Photo by Sheila Webber: Beetles on a sort of cow parsley, Hailsham, July 2007. [...]
LILAC 2008 (The Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference) willtake place at Liverpool John Moores University, 17th – 19th March 2008.Further details will follow shortly. (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) More: continued here
An ACRL/TLT Group Online SeminarSeptember 25-October 2, 2007(two 90-minute sessions)Registration information is at the bottom of this page.Live Webcasts: Tuesdays, 3:00-4:30 p.m. EasternSeminar Leaders:Steven Bell, Temple University and John Shank, Penn State UniversityWorkshop Goal:To help participants identify techniques and tools that will enable academic librarians, faculty members, information technologists, instructional design professionals, et al. to [...]
An ACRL/TLT Group Online SeminarSeptember 13-27, 2007Live Webcasts: Thursdays, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. EasternSeminar Leaders:Susan Ariew and Ilene Frank, University of Southern FloridaCourse Description:For the past several years, seminar leaders Ariew and Frank, along with members of the ACRL’s Institute for Information Literacy’s Best Practices Project Team, have been working with colleagues in the field [...]
The Reference Division of CQ Press, the leading publisher of print and online reference materials about government, politics, world affairs, and current events, is seeking a Print Sales and Wholesaler Relationships Manager, reporting to the Director and located in CQ Press’ Washington DC office. This is an exciting opportunity for the right person to join [...]
The part time Public Services Librarian is responsible for providing reference service and information literacy instruction to Library users and participating in the development of information literacy programming. Additionally, the part time public services librarian may conduct outreach to faculty and the campus community, and select new books and materials for the collection. The part [...]
Education is not a routine activity which is divorced from national defense. It is, in the most fundamental and important sense, the first line of national defense.A quote from the former mayor of Chicago, snapped inside a display at the Chicago Public Library. Jeremy recommended that I take a picture of it for Jason. It’s [...]
I’ve pointed to Zotero before but with the school year just starting it’s time to note that it has released a new version. If you want to be ‘professional” you can call this free service a citation manager but that doesn’t quite cut it for me. I like it when it’s referred to as a [...]
The latest issue of Webology has an emphasis on folksonomies and something on Web 2.0. There is also an article:Aitken, W. (2007). “Use of Web in Tertiary Research and Education.” Webology, 4 (2). http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n2/a42.htmlThis is interesting in actually putting the case for use of the web by students. It describes the example of undergraduates in [...]