Spring Hills School library was one of four school libraries nationwide that won prizes for bringing in the most entries for the Step Up to the Plate program.Developed by the American Library Association (ALA) and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Step-Up to the Plate @ Your Library promotes the importance of information [...]

Congratulations to all who were honored with Awards and Scholarships this year for CLA. The Awards and Scholarships were presented at the Annual Awards Dinner on Friday, November 14, 2008 during the 110th Annual Conference in San Jose. President’s Award WinnerDonna Bero,Friends of the San Francisco Public LibraryDonna Bero, Executive Director of the Friends of [...]

My Nominations for The 2008 Edublog Awards are:1. Best individual blog : Teaching and Learning Design – Dean Groom2. Best group blog: Information Literacy Meets Library 2.03. Best new blog: And Another Thing – Sue Tapp4. Best resource sharing blog: CogDogBlog – Alan Levine5. Most influential blog post: The future of online learning – 10 [...]

Cyberchondria: Studies of the Escalation of Medical Concerns in Web SearchThe World Wide Web provides an abundant source of medical information. This information can assist people who are not healthcare professionals to better understand health and disease, and to provide them with feasible explanations for symptoms. However, the Web has the potential to increase the [...]

And in with the new? Not when it comes to library research. The thorough researcher looks at recent additions to the literature as well as plumbs the works in older publications, either through citation analysis or just old fashioned legwork. But a recent report in Science magazine has uncovered an interesting trend: it appears that [...]

Here’s an even sillier question–and one that you don’t need the book to answer, just resources already available or this series of promotional posts (yes, I’m writing them ahead of time; no, I don’t plan to be doing real blogging on Thursday).In what respect is an alphabetic list of liblogs wildly different than typical alphabetic [...]

← Previous revision Revision as of 02:09, 25 November 2008 Line 1: Line 1: {{refstyle|date=February 2008}} {{refstyle|date=February 2008}} – Several conceptions and definitions of ”’information literacy”’ have become prevalent. For example, one conception defines information literacy in terms of a set of competencies that an informed citizen of an information society ought to possess to [...]

I can’t argue with many of the points William Badke makes in his infolitland column in the November/December 2008 issue of Online (subscription required) titled “Ten Reasons to Teach Information Literacy for Credit.” All of Badke’s ten reasons will gain full support from any information literacy advocate. Everything from driving students to higher quality information [...]

I find it interesting that John recently referred back to his January blog post about what future generations of government documents librarians should know, as something he discussed in that entry has been on my mind for the last few weeks:I am going to try to teach them how to be the best librarians who [...]

In September 2006, the Medical Library Association (MLA) was awarded a two-year contract by the National Library of Medicine to study aspects of health information literacy in hospital libraries. The Health Information Literacy Curriculum was developed as part of this Health Information Literacy Research Project. It includes a Powerpoint slide show (20-40 minute version and 40-50 [...]