Over at ReadWriteWeb, Marshall Kirkpatrick writes,Imagine a future when you go to the library with a 5 minute video you’ve just made about last night’s Presidential debates and that librarian says to you:”You should upload it to YouTube and tag it with these four tags – two broad and two more specific to existing communities [...]
Sélection de ressources disponibles via L’Album des sciences sociales:OJOSE – Online journal search engineOnline journal search engine (OJOSE) est un méta-moteur de recherche scientifique qui permet d’interroger plusieurs bases de données (Peeters, Medline/Pubmed, Abes…), des libraires (Amazon…), et des moteurs de recherches (Yahoo, Google…). Le site localise les publications scientifiques qui peuvent être téléchargées gratuitement [...]
The UNESCO-SALIS e-Learning Portal on information literacy for South Asia has been launched. There is a story about it here and the portal itself is at http://salisonline.org/frontend/Photo by Sheila Webber, Golden Pavilion, Kyoto, Japan, 2005 (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) More: continued here
State: South DakotaThe Rapid City Public Library seeks a visionary, energetic, service-oriented professional for a busy and vibrant library. This mid-management position provides an opportunity for enhancement of personnel and project management skills, and to oversee technology initiatives, youth services, and reference services for the public. Duties include: supervision of the Reference and Youth Services [...]
Journal of Information Literacy – Volume 1, Issue 3 (2007) is now available. It is an international, peer-reviewed, academic journal that aims to investigate Information Literacy within a wide range of settings (Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog) More: continued here
ED’s College Navigator has been named by Money magazine as “the best first screen” for finding out about colleges. Students can find colleges by programs, tuition, and more. They can save favorites and compare up to four colleges. More: continued here
In the two weeks since I posted last (sorry about that), I’ve taught 36 credit hours worth of information literacy sessions.Nothing like teaching almost a full semester in two weeks, finishing an article for publication (see C&R Libraries News early for 2008), and sending off a few conference proposals to keep one busy. Not that [...]
“Are You Where You Want to be Professionally” Steven Bell’s excellent post over at ACRLog provides a lot for new and seasoned librarians to think about.Where I’m at professionally is a question I’ve debated internally for the majority of this semester. Obliviously, my postings here have been any thing but consistent. Some of this lack [...]
Here’s the introduction to my upcoming article on information literacy and fantasy football for C&R Libraries News:Librarians want students to effectively identify and evaluate information and make decisions based upon it. These are just some of the skills that an information literate student successfully applies. These are the same skills that over 19 million people [...]
I was fortunate enough to be asked to present a paper for a panel at the upcoming American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting in Long Beach this April. Here is the abstract of the paper. I’m interested in any thoughts and/or suggestions since the scope is a little beyond libraries and information literacy.”A recent [...]