There is a report on a speech by Abdul Waheed Khan, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, at the annual conference of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development yesterday in Kuala Lumpur. Apparently he was emphasising that skills in information technology alone are not enough. Encouraging, especially as it looks like there was [...]

The next discussion in the virtual world Second Life on Infolit iSchool is on Thurs 29th May. You need a Second Life avatar to participate.12 noon SL time (which is *8pm UK time*), Thurs 29th May Expanding Information Literacy Using In-World Tools [inworld = in Second Life], venue is: Infolit iSchool (45, 202,22), SLURL (web [...]

My kids were always creating mind maps before they started any project. I love them as a way to outline.Anyway, here’s a greta little Mind Map of Information Literacy Resources.It’s organized into:General ResourcesStandardsSecond LifeProfessional AssociationsConferences ListervsOnline Tutorials & VideosBlogsPodcastsWikisFacebook GroupsOpen Source ToolsOther Web 2.0 ToolsCool little map!Stephen (Source: Stephen) More: continued here

I am just travelling back from the Special Interest Group Phenomenography conference, held in Kristianstad, Sweden on 22-24 May. As you might guess, this is a conference for researchers who use the phenomenographic approach, and there were about 50 delegates from Europe, Australia, Africa and Asia. The presentation was Variation theory as a basis for [...]

- Information Structures and Undergraduate Students(source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship, vol. 34, n° 3, mai 2008, pages 211-219 / sur abonnement)This study explores how undergraduates seek information across various information structures. Taking part in an interview, fifteen students of diverse backgrounds described their information seeking. The findings pointed to several issues relating to the [...]

Related Articles Promoting reflective information literacy practice through Facilitating Information Literacy Education (FILE). Health Info Libr J. 2008 Jun;25(2):150-3 Authors: Andretta S PMID: 18494650 [PubMed - in process] (Source: PubMed: "Health information …) More: continued here

The Library Association of Ireland Working Group on Information Literacy has an event on 29th May, in Dublin, including a presentation from Bill Johnston about information literacy assessment – unfortunately I couldn’t find details online but the WGIL website is at http://www2.libraryassociation.ie/working-group-on-information-literacyx/ so you might be able to follow up from there if you are [...]

At her search engine workshops, Karen Blakeman usefully asks her participants to name their top tips, and even more usefully she posts them online. Here is the latest one: she notes that Google Custom Search Engine was a new entry in the list. http://www.ukeig.org.uk/blog/2008/05/top-search-tips-may-2008-liverpool.htmlPhoto by Sheila Webber, May 2008 (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) More: continued [...]

Inside out Рwhat do current Web trends tell us about the future of ICT provision for learners and researchers? (British Library Р08/05/08)Les pr̩sentations (vid̩os) sont disponibles en ligne.Voir ̩galement la conf̩rence compl̬te ici (toujours en sons et images).Via eFoundations (Source: pintiniblog) More: continued here

- Agenda de la culture informationnelle(source: Urfist Rennes)- Registres du Parlement européen, du Conseil de l’Union européenne et de la Commission européenneL’article 255 du Traité instituant la Communauté européenne stipule que “Tout citoyen de l’Union et toute personne physique ou morale résidant ou ayant son siège dans un État membre a un droit d’accès aux [...]