Yesterday our level 1 BSc Information Management students presented posters from the projects they do in the Inquiry in Information Mangement module. All of them were interesting , but a prize was awarded for the best poster and it went to the poster on How do students use information resources to support their research during [...]

This is a bit of a “told you so” post inspired by something I saw on Open Access News the other day: Google indexes 90% of recent engineering research. The post mentions a recent article in the The Journal of Academic Librarianship, May 2008: John J. Meiera and Thomas W. Conkling, Google Scholar’s Coverage of [...]

Hot on the heels of WILU, I’ve created an early draft on the UBC Health Library wiki for information literacy in health libraries. Check out the actual wiki links: “The ACRL states that information literacy (IL) is the ability to locate, evaluate and use information effectively. Its principles are widely… (Source: UBC Academic Search – [...]

E’ stato appena presentato dal suo papà Nicholas Negroponte il nuvo One Laptop per Child (OLPC per gli amici). Non più uno schermo ma due: il nuovo OLPC sarà simile a un lettore di e-book e costerà ancora meno.Negroponte says the cost of this 2nd-generation device, which uses dual-touch screens with 16:9 aspect ratios, will [...]

(2008) Theorems of Information Literacy. UNESCO-CEI Workshop on “Information Literacy Initiatives for Central and South East European Countries”(preliminary version) 14th International Conference on “Library: The Key To Users` Success”, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, 2nd-3rd June, 2008, Ljubljana (Slovenia). (Source: E-LIS) More: continued here

Walton, Sean (2008) How We Fit. Delivered at WILU 37 Information Literacy UNCORKED, UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia. Presentation. (Source: E-LIS) More: continued here

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As part of its continued commitment to make sure students have access to federal student loans in the coming academic year, the Administration today announced a four-part plan designed to improve the functioning of the student loan marketplace and provide liquidity and stability in the near term to ensure that all qualified students have access [...]

Here’s my quiz question for you. What do Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and an information literacy class all have in common? That’s right. They are all a figment of your imagination.If you still believe in Santa or the Easter Bunny, well go right ahead. I don’t see any harm in it. But let me [...]

Thanks to Gerry McKiernan on the ili (Information Literacy / ALA) list for sharing this information that Gerry gleaned from Bernie Sloan:OCLC and Google to exchange data, link digitized books to WorldCat DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 19 May 2008-OCLC and Google Inc. have signed an agreement to exchange data that will facilitate the discovery of library [...]