I am working on some more reports from the CK5 conference, but in the meantime … There is a call for chapter proposals for a book, Collaborative Information Literacy Assessments, to be published in 2009 by Neal-Schuman Publishers. “This book will include chapters co-authored by librarian and faculty teams about successful information literacy assessment initiatives [...]

Information LiteracyAssist library users to satisfy their needs Guide in their use of books, online database searchingRecommend informative materialsInformation Dissemination of available materials, etc (Source: MBLC Job Listings) More: continued here

From the Computerworld article:The recent growth of information sources such as blogs, social networks, news aggregators, microblogs like Twitter, instant messaging and e-mail has been exponential. And with broadband penetration among active Internet users expected to break 90% this year, according to Internet marketing firm Website Optimization LLC, there aren’t many people today who haven’t [...]

I really enjoy the Innovations in Instruction Conference that Elon University hosts-for free-each year. I’ve been to all but one (I’m pretty sure) and each year it gets better than the year before. This year I saw a call for presentations so enthusiastically submitted two proposals. I also saw that they had lined up Michael [...]

An announcement was made of the next Nordinfolit summer school with the title Library education: wired (as in networked/Web 2.0-ed etc and as in distance learning). Themes include teaching-the-teachers and using peer-students and teachers. As may be obvious from series title this series is held in the European summer – so probably June next year. [...]

Having had a wonderful time at ILI2007 last year (summary of my talk, according to Brian Kelly – “For most of the people, most of the time, Google’s good enough – get over it…”, though I like to think I was actually talking about the idea of search hubs), I’ve joined forces with Hassan Sheikh [...]

A recent post by Downes (PubMed Now Indexes Videos of Experiments and Protocols in Life Sciences) reminded me of a Google custom search engine I started to put together almost a year or ago to provide a meta-search over science experiment protocols.At the time, I managed to track three likely sites down, although despite my [...]

At the start of the week I blogged about the Norwegian tutorial Search and Write (available in English and Norwegian). At the Creating Knowledge conference in Turku, Finland, Therese Skagen (University of Bergen Library, Norway) talked about this project in the context of Evidence Based Practice (EBP) and use of projects to develop EBP. She [...]

- Information Literacy LogoL’IFLA propose un logo international pour représenter graphiquement l’information literacy / maîtrise de l’information.[télécharger le logo: en plusieurs langues, dont le français][pour lire les fichiers EPS, télécharger ce programme]- Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences (CILASS) (source: université de Sheffield, Gde-Bret. / via ILW, 14/08/08)Dans cette présentation, l’auteur [...]

Is the homepage for one of the finest art collections in the world, illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to today. Visitors can search the collection by specific artist, title, or a combination of criteria, review research on the Gallery’s World War II paintings, tour the collection by [...]