State: New MexicoThe University of New Mexico Libraries has an opening (JR# 6409) for a Library Resident in Researchand Instruction Services. This is a fulltime,12 month faculty position. The desired start date is July 1,2008. The faculty rank will be Visting Lecturer III. This position may be extended by the UniversityLibraries for up to one [...]
The British Museum has released a ground-breaking study on information literacy that turns over many of the assumptions about the ‘Google Generation’ (those born since 1993). You can read the whole thing – Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future (PDF; 1.67MB) and/or listen to a podcast of a discussion by report’s authors. Great [...]
The latest Horizon report is out, sponsored by the New Media Consortium and Educause. This report annually identifies technology-led trends and challenges. One of the key challenges identified is as follows:”The academy is faced with a need to provide formal instruction in information, visual, and technological literacy as well as in how to create meaningful [...]
Il Liceo Scientifico “Galilei” di Verona ha realizzato già da tempo un corso di base su metodi, strumenti, tecniche e uso dell’informazione nella ricerca delle informazioni, “Le radici e le ali“, con lo scopo di aiutare a ”impostare i tuoi lavori di ricerca secondo un percorso logico e consapevole, a scegliere i documenti più adatti, a stendere una [...]
Comme chaque année, New Media Consortium (NMC) et EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) publient un rapport de synthèse sur les principales technologies qui ont, d’une manière ou d’une autre, concerné l’enseignement supérieur.Educause Horizon Report 2008 (pdf)Via S. Lighthouse (Source: pintiniblog) More: continued here
Bibliothèque Saint-Jean (BSJ) presented Biblio 100, online Library course, at the inaugural University of Alberta Festival of Teaching that took place on January 24th at TELUS centre. The Festival illuminated and celebrated Teaching and Learning initiatives across U of A faculties and departments.Biblio 100 represents an innovating approach to Information Literacy teaching. The course is [...]
I honestly never thought I would be mentioning fantsy football in one of my blog posts. Afterall this blog’s primary focus is on things of interest to medical librarians. While I am closet fantasy football addict and I find all of the research and games highly interesting, I doubted whether it had much relevance to [...]
Steven just remarked on the Educause training toolkit for information literacy that somehow missed the fact that libraries have been working on it for some time. D’oh! This presentation on an Annenberg School-sponsored media survey also struck me as a place where “library” as a source of information is noticeably absent. (So are books.) Admittedly, [...]
Exploring learning styles – implications for communication in the workplace is a new one day seminar taking place in Liverpool, UK on 9 June 2008. The Tutor is Deborah Dalley and it is part of the training programme offered by NoWAL, a consortium of all the UK University and Colleges of Higher Education libraries in [...]
Marshall, A. and Henwood, F. (2007) “Informing Health: a participative approach to health information provision” Library and Information Research, 31(99) “This article reports on a research project which took place in Brighton in 2006. It was part of ongoing research into the role that information and communications technologies (ICTs) might play in enabling access to [...]