The ChildWise Monitor is an annual (priced) publication from Childwise which identifies trends in UK children’s consumption and activity habits. There is the methodology chapter and contents list on their website free, and some highights are mentioned in an article in the Guardian. They interviewed 1795 children and young people aged 5–16 years: the whole [...]
This post’s title is a question that came from an online article about Jessica Alba. For the full story, read this link. Alba apparently defended herself when O’Rielly called her “dumb” for saying that Sweden was a neutral country during World War II. So Wikipedia says, according to Alba, Sweden along with Switzerland did not [...]
 Saturdays and Sundays seem to always be the busiest at Midwinter, and this one was no different. Alexander Street Press BreakfastSusan and I started the day bright and early with the Alexander Street Press breakfast. It’s always a great event. First, I really think Alexander Street Press understands where information is moving, and they’re leading edge [...]
Wikipedia: The Missing Manual Posted on WikipediaThe Missing Manuals series, published by O’Reilly Media, today announced the migration of its book about Wikipedia to Wikipedia. As of today, the entire contents of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual (O’Reilly, $29.99) by John Broughton is available for free online for editing and updating just like any other Wikipedia [...]
- Special Issue on Social Information Retrieval for Technology Enhanced Learning(source: Journal of Digital Information (vol. 10, n° 2, 2009))- Bilan et perspectives de l’enseignement de méthodologie documentaire à l’Université de Paris 8 (source: Mireille Lamouroux / déposé sur ArchiveSIC, 13/01/09)”En 2005, Claire Panijel dressant un dernier bilan de la formation documentaire des étudiants de [...]
A new book: Basili, C. (Ed) (2008) Information Literacy at the cross-road of Education and Information Policies in Europe. Rome: CNR. (ISBN: 978-88-8080-096-5)Chapters are: Information and education policies in Europe: key factors: influencing information literacy academic policies in Europe (Basili); Theorems of Information Literacy (Basili); Development of information-related Competencies in European ODL Institutions (Virkus); Information [...]
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The January Breezing Along with the RML recording is now available at https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p55601526/.The NN/LM MidContinental Region’s 2009 Breezing Along with the RML series resumed with presenters Jean Shipman, Director, and Claire Hamasu, Associate Director. Jean Shipman reviewed the Medical Library Association/NLM Health Information Literacy Research Project results, now that this two-year project has ended. She [...]
From the News Release:The British Library and JISC have commissioned a major new study into the information seeking and research behaviour of young scholars born between 1982 and 1994 – commonly dubbed ‘Generation Y’.The study will track a number of researchers over a three-year period, analysing their activity and habits in online and physical research [...]
Woodbury University invites applications for the position of Systems Librarian. The Systems Librarian holds a leadership role in the planning, development, and management of the Library’s technological infrastructure, electronic resources, and web presence in support of learning, teaching, and research. This is a full-time faculty position reporting to the Director of Library Services. Within a [...]