Thomas Hapke blogs about an issue of BIT online (German language publication) which has a number of articles about information literacy: Wilfried Sühl-Strohmenger talks about goals and curricula of classes in soem German universities; Luzian Weisel talsk about the need to develop information literacy in schools and in cooperation with public libraries, and Gabriela Blum [...]
The Konstanz Workshop on Information Literacy (KWIL) takes place in Konstanz (Germany) 8-9 November 2007. The focus is particularly on information literacy for students taking postgraduate degrees. There is a good programme of speakers, though perhaps I shouldn’t say that as I am one of them. I will be talking about information literacy for Masters [...]
This is the final call for proposals for the 2008 Online Northwest ConferencePROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE:Wednesday, October 10, 2007WHAT IS ONLINE NORTHWEST?Online Northwest is a one-day conference focusing on topics at the intersection of libraries, technology and culture. The conference is sponsored by the Oregon University System Library Council.WHEN IS THE CONFERENCE?Friday, February 22, 2008WHAT TOPICS [...]
Secretary Spellings announced the award of 30 new grants totaling $17.2 million to benefit colleges and other postsecondary schools that enroll a high percentage of Hispanic students. More: continued here
ED awarded more than $3.5 million to 22 grantees across the country to help plan, design and create new charter schools and to increase the school choices that parents have to provide their children. More: continued here
S. Webber signale les ressources suivantes sur le site de l’ACRL: Information Literacy in the Disciplines:”This page contains links and citations to information literacy standards and curricula developed by accrediting agencies, professional associations, and institutions of higher education. The discipline titles below are based on the National Center for Education Statistic’s The Classification of Instructional [...]
Survey Results: Which of the Following Online Health Care Tools Have You Used?Results from a Forrester survey.From the summary:Online physician and facility finders are the most popular online health care tool used by nonelderly, commercially insured U.S. residents who use online health care tools, according to a survey by Forrester Research. However, just 19% of [...]
Heads up, everyone: Scott McLemee has discovered Zotero and is spreading the word. You might get some questions about this at your reference desk, and you might start having some conversations about the library’s role in supporting pricey subscription-based citation management systems that can be tricky to teach – though chances are, you have already. [...]
Find online aids for teaching probability, statistics, and statistical computing — graphs and calculators for showing distributions, computer-generated analogs of experiments, and more. More: continued here
“Student achievement is on the rise,” Secretary Spellings said in response to results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress in reading and math. “No Child Left Behind is working.” More: continued here