Secretary Spellings addressed a joint session of the Oklahoma House and Senate Education Committees in Oklahoma City, Okla., and discussed how the Federal government can support and facilitate further academic gains made by Oklahoma students under No Child Left Behind. Secretary Spellings applauded Oklahoma’s efforts to increase accountability and discussed opportunities for improvement and innovation [...]
Humanities LibrarianCarnegie Mellon University LibrariesCarnegie Mellon is an internationally recognized institution with adistinctive mix of educational and research programs in computer science,robotics, engineering , the sciences, business, public policy, socialsciences, fine arts and the humanities. More than 10,000 undergraduate andgraduate students at the university receive an education characterized byinterdisciplinary collaboration and innovation.Carnegie Mellon University Libraries [...]
There is a new journal announced: a Nordic journal specialising in information literacy, aptly named Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education https://noril.uib.no/noril_en.html Contributions are solicited for the first and future issues. I think it’s exciting that the number of specialist journals in our field is growing! Photo by Sheila Webber: Euphorbia, Feb 2008. [...]
… One or more years academic library reference experience in the humanities; Knowledge of principles and practice of information literacy; Familiar (Source: pligg – all) More: continued here
Ripon College’s Lane Library invites applications for an Assistant Librarian, Resource Services, beginning August 2008. This is a full-time (12 month) non tenure track faculty position.The successful candidate will oversee the Interlibrary Loan and Serials Departments. Shared duties include providing reference services, teaching information literacy skills to classes, collection development and participation in the library’s [...]
Deputy Secretary Simon delivered the keynote address at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) Edge Lecture: No Child Left Behind — Partnership for Learning in the United States. In his remarks, he highlighted the successes of No Child Left Behind in the U.S. and discussed the role of the [...]
Another way to introduce students to the idea of complexity in the research process is through open and closed questions. In Second-hand Knowledge: An Inquiry into Cognitive Authority, Patrick Wilson describes closed questions as matters which (for now) have been settled beyond practical doubt and open questions as questions on which doubt remains. I suggest [...]
On Tues 26 Feb, 12 noon Second Life time (8pm UK time) there is a Discussion The Information Literate University in Second Life, the virtual world. Sheila Yoshikawa (i.e. me) will briefly explain the concept that has been developed by me and RL Bill Johnston, and develop a discussion on what this could mean in [...]
On 14 Feb 2008 a discussion on Evaluating educational interventions in Second Life, particularly education for information literacy was held in the virtual world, Second Life. The chatlog is now at http://sleeds.org/chatlog/?c=234 and the accompanying notecard is on the web at http://dis.shef.ac.uk/sheila/evaluating-notecard.pdf It includes links to material from the Eduserv meeting that stimulated this event.Photo [...]
- Project Information Literacy(source: ILW)A large-scale study about college students and their research habits- Library Dean Tells Students They Still Need The Library(source: Daily Trojan via The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)- IFLA Information Literacy Section Newsletter (janv. 08, vol. 6, n° 1) (pdf)(source: ILW)- Real World/Life Rules: The Lafayette College Information Literacy Tour(source: C&RL News, février [...]