looks at the science behind food and cooking. Learn about what happens when you eat sugar, bake bread, cook an egg, or pickle foods. Find out how muscle turns to meat, what makes meat tender, and what gives meat its flavor. Take tours of breads and spices of the world. Explore your sense of taste [...]
Secretary Spellings announced the award of $5.2 million for 13 new grants to colleges and universities to develop and implement emergency management plans for preventing and responding to campus violence and natural disasters in order to ensure the safety of the entire campus community. More: continued here
Citation for the article:Andersen, Jack. “The Public Sphere and Discursive Activities: Information Literacy as Sociopolitical Skills.” Journal of Documentation 62.2 (2006): 213-228.Read via ABI/InformThe article provides a theoretical look at the concept of information literacy, drawing on the work of Habermas as well as looking at some composition scholars like Bizzell. What I found myself [...]
Health librarians in England will be well aware of the National Service Framework of Quality Improvement for NHS funded library services in England, but this may be of interest to those beyond (note to non-Brits: the National Health Service is UK-wide but the home nations have powers which result in some differences in policy and [...]
Tells about the Human Genome Project and provides general information about and links to the coordinated effort to determine the complete sequence of the DNA in the human genome. It surveys the project’s goals, the tools being used to map genetic code, the spin-off technologies generated by the project, and the ethical, legal, and social [...]
ED announced the award of $2.4 million in grants to 20 institutions in 15 states to help train highly qualified teachers of students with high incidence disabilities, such as learning disabilities, emotional disturbance and mental retardation. More: continued here
The PNU-LISAA, Inc has organised a 2-day seminar-workshop on Information Literacy power packages on September 10-11, 2008 at the Library Conference Room, Edilberto P. Dagot Hall, Philippine Normal University, the Philippines. “Through this seminar-workshop, the Association aims to share and enrich the knowledge of fellow professionals and library personnel on information literacy with customers’ competencies [...]
Information Literacy Instruction Handbook by Christopher N. Cox and Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay “is designed primarily for librarians new to teaching or management of information literacy instruction. In addition, it serves as a one-stop refresher source on key topics for more experienced librarians” (Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog) More: continued here
Centre for Information Literacy Research: summer eventDate: August 13th 2008, 1.30-4pm (You can attend for just part of the programme if they wish)Place: Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, Regent Court building, Regent Street, Sheffield (see http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/visitors/mapsandtravel/university_big.html (Building 166 at G3) or http://tinyurl.com/5tmfyz (Multimap)Description: This free half day event presents a keynote from a [...]
Telescopic TextClick away on the text. Expand the sentence. Have fun. More: continued here