Mount Ida College seeks qualified candidates for a full-time Reference Librarian position within its Wadsworth Library. The Reference Librarian provides reference services including designing and presenting information literacy classes, participates in collection development, and provides reference desk coverage for one evening per week. (Source: MBLC Job Listings) More: continued here

7 Fantastic Internet HoaxesAdmit it. Even you, a savvy veteran e-mail user, have fallen for one or more of these Internet rumors. Or, even if you weren’t quite sure of the veracity of a particular story or photograph, you e-mailed it to your friends to amuse/warn them, or to see what they thought.Don’t be embarrassed, [...]

Looks at the history and variety of voting methods in the U.S.—the voice vote, “party ticket” (paper ballots listing candidates from just one party), Australian ballot, gear and lever machine, and others. Voting reforms of the early 1900s, when the U.S. electorate doubled, are described. Kinds of voting equipment used in counties across the U.S. [...]

Secretary Spellings announced final regulations to strengthen and clarify No Child Left Behind (NCLB), focusing on improved accountability and transparency, uniform and disaggregated graduation rates and improved parental notification for Supplemental Education Services and public school choice. The Secretary made the announcement while speaking to educators, state and local policymakers and business leaders at South [...]

[From Part 6]Peter Godwin. Academic Liaison Librarian, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK.He was like a Shakespearean actor, full of stage presence (I’m sure his Information Literacy classes must be interesting!)I managed to ask him if he had acting background. He laughed.”No, but I had wanted to be an actor as a child.”In gist, Peter made [...]

Information Literacy Librarian (Source: Combined Library Job Postings – Lisjobs.com and Library Job Postings on the Internet) More: continued here

Checking the links of the information literacy portals in the previous entry, I came across a link on the German portal to a British website that has won an award last week (or at least its creator did). Russell Stannard has created a nice series of Teacher Training videos. He walks you through how to [...]

Writing about scholarly method, Paul Courant discusses ‘information literacy’ and ‘scholarly literacy’. Partly in response to these concerns, there has been much talk about the importance of developing “information literacy”. I will argue here that our most important audience is already information literate and then some. [3] Our interest should be in ensuring the production [...]

Here is a short post with some more of the information literacy links I put in the notes to my keynote PowerPoint at the conference in Lille.Information Literacy Journals (all open access)- Communications in Information Literacy (USA) http://www.comminfolit.org/index.php/cil/index- Journal of information literacy http://jil.lboro.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/JIL- Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education https://noril.uib.no/noril_en.htmlPortals (a few examples)- [...]

A site I came across recently is Digital natives, a small wiki for a collaboration between the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It has some useful inks and some opinion/ discussion sections on Digital Identity, [...]