Description: Coordinate Supplemental Instruction program and content tutoring at the college library. Participate in collection development for several academic programs and information literacy program instruction. Serve on college committees and participate in professional development opportunities. Work schedule includes one evening per week and one Sunday per month.Classification: Administrative staff with faculty status2080 hours per yearDuties1. [...]

Gerry Mckiernan announced that he’d be speaking at the 3rd International Plagiarism Conference, Transforming Practice for an Authentic Future, June 23-25 2008, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. The website is at http://www.plagiarismconference.co.uk/Gerry is talking about “The Learning and Teaching Challenges and Opportunities Associated with the Development of Information Literacy in the Web 2.0 Environment” and he’s put out [...]

← Previous revision Revision as of 04:23, 25 April 2008 Line 6: Line 6: Jeremy Shapiro & Shelley Hughes (1996) define information literacy as “A new liberal art that extends from knowing how to use computers and access information to critical reflection on the nature of information itself its technical infrastructure and its social, cultural, [...]

A new contest is afoot to create an information literacy logo.”On behalf of UNESCO, IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) and its Information Literacy Section (InfoLit), we invite everyone to propose an international Logo to identify information literacy work. The aim of creating this Logo is to make communication easier between those who [...]

In 2007 the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Information Literacy Forum celebrated its 6th birthday with a makeover, and as part of this ALIA members were invited to choose a new name. The winner is Suzanne Parker, from the University of Queensland, who proposed renaming the ALIA Information Literacy Forum as – ALIA PATHWAYS [...]

Curry College, in Milton, Massachusetts, seeks a service-oriented and creative Reference and Information Literacy librarian to join a collaborative library environment. This full-time public services library faculty member will be involved in all aspect of reference and other library activities, including:â–  Serving reference desk hours and providing E-Ref (electronic reference service) â–  Coordinating reference schedules [...]

I am currently in Salt Lake City, Utah for the Thirteenth Off-Campus Library Services Conference. This is a beautiful city and I love the snow capped mountains which provide a nice background to this city. I will be doing a few tourist activities today. However, I hope to post conference reports here over the next [...]

Pipl: people search enginehttp://pipl.com/In libraries we often receive requests from customers who need to search for people, whether it be to find a lost relative, an old flame, a classmate or a business contact – but if you are using a search engine such as Google or Yahoo to search for people, you have probably [...]

- Let’s Go to the Video — Or Not(source: Wired Campus / via The Information Literacy Land of Confusion, 21/04/08)- Tyner, Ross (2008) The ART of Collaboration : The Academic Resource Toolbox. Delivered at British Columbia Library Association Conference 2008: “Off the Shelf and Out of the Box: Creativity in Libraries”, Richmond, British Columbia (Canada). [...]

Another professional development opportunity at the State Library of Queensland. And it’s free too.Power to the people through public access computing: a presentation and workshop by Dr Karen FisherDr Karen Fisher – Associate Professor, The Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, USAKaren’s research and teaching focus is information behavior (social and cognitive aspects of how [...]