President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 on February 17, 2009. This historic law provides more than $100 billion dollars over the next two years to save education jobs, send young people to college, modernize America’s classrooms, and advance education reforms. More: continued here

Estimated State Allocations for State Grants under the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund. More: continued here

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For those of you who are Spanish or Catalan speakers, there are presentations (and a Youtube video) from a conference on information literacy held in Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona) on 22-23 January 2009; Seminario Alfin 09. There were 125 participants, and presentations related to both educational and public libraries. To find all the links [...]

First this morning was the Information Services for the Born Digital Generation Panel. Up first was Daviess Menefee from Elsevier with his talk titled 2Collab – The Research Collaboration Tool.Why did they develop it?It was basically to provide information and understanding about the new types of content that users were creating. users are creating their [...]

In a previous post I expressed my vision for the future of information literacy – and in that vision it’s not the librarians teaching students the skills needed to be wise consumers of information – it’s the faculty. That’s why this Wired Campus post caught my attention. It’s about two faculty members who wrote a [...]

An online programme of workshops and discussions is offered by the (American) Teaching and Learning and Technology group. In May there is an online workshop on Information Literacy: Assessment, and before that sessions include one on clickers (personal response devices used in class) and one on MERLOT (the database of peer reviewed learning objects/plans).Some sessions [...]

- Getting Students To Ask For Help Is A Higher Education Challenge(source: ACRLog, 06/02/09)- Newsletters d’informations scientifiques et techniques(source: INIST / via Demain la veille, 09/02/09)- [livre] Going Beyond Google: the invisible web in learning and teaching(source: Devine, J., Egger-Sider, F., London: Facet, 2009)- A User Experience Is Like A First Date(source: Designing Better Libraries, [...]

In der Washburn-University, Topeka, Kansas fing ein information literacy-librarian mit drei Masterabschlüssen an. [via the review] (Source: netbib weblog) More: continued here

Mimi Ito closed the conference with her talk titled Born Digital – Born Mobile: A look at the Future of Communication and Search.Mimi asks, are these web 2.0 technologies just this generation’s version of punk rock? Will kids give it all up when they become adults? Or is there a cultural change here?If she were [...]