How Spellcheckers Wreak Havoc“I apologize for any incontinence” and other examples of the Cupertino effect.For weak spellers and readers, this article underscores the need to proofread. More: continued here

Secretary Duncan praised President Obama’s intent to nominate Carmel Martin as Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development and Peter Cunningham as Assistant Secretary for Communications and Outreach. More: continued here

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Most academic libraries target their information literacy efforts to the undergraduate population. There may be an assumption that graduate students are well equipped to meet the demands of their research assignments. But I suspect that most of us know, at least anecdotally, that graduate students need just as much help, and possibly more, than the [...]

The US National Forum on Information Literacy is having a 20th Anniversary Celebration on October 15 and 16, 2009: Empowering Future Generations: Information Literacy in Washington, D.C., USA. On the 15 there is an Anniversary Dinner with a Keynote Address from Arthur J. Rothkopf, Senior Vice President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The 16th includes a [...]

Information Literacy meets Library 2.0. This is the blog which updates the book "Information Literacy meets Library 2.0" published by Facet in March (Source: pligg – all) More: continued here

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GENERAL STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY: Provide leadership and supervision of all operations and programs of the Library on all campuses. Responsible for the development of services, activities and personnel of the Library. SUPERVISION RECEIVED: Reports to the Provost.SUPERVISION EXERCISED: Is responsible for the supervision for all professional, classified and student personnel assigned to the Library.EXAMPLES OF [...]

Today, the Guardian warns:“Too many of us suffer from a condition that is going to leave our grandchildren bereft,” Brindley states. “I call it personal digital disorder. Think of those thousands of digital photographs that lie hidden on our computers. Few store them, so those who come after us will not be able to look [...]

There will be a talk from Susie Andretta The ‘FILE experience’: empowering medical librarians on 10 February 2009 at 6.30pm in The Sekforde Arms, Sekforde Street, London, UK: Map: http://digbig.com/3pmf “FILE (Facilitating Information Literacy Education) is a CPD course sponsored by London Health Libraries and the National Library for Health (NLH).” Just go along if [...]