The Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School1365 E. 60th StreetChicago, IL 60637773-702-1203http://orthogenicschool.uchicago.edu/ More: continued here

Instruction & Reference LibrarianLearning Resources Competition Number: 209064Closing Date: April 12, 2009NAIT Library seeks a dynamic, innovative, team-oriented librarian to provide proactive support and services as a member of our Information Research and Instruction team.Responsibilities:InstructionAs a member of the Information Literacy Instruction team, participates in the continued development, implementation, and promotion of information literacy instruction [...]

- Research and Documentation Online(source: Diana Hacker )> Humanities> Social Sciences> History> Sciences- Is there a librarian in the vicinity? Geosocial Reference Services(source: The Ubiquitous Librarian, 11/03/09)- [vidéo] Understanding Information Literacy Through the Lens of the Student Experience(source: Project Information Literacy / via Stephen’s Lighthouse, 12/03/09)- SINBAD(source: Urfist Lyon)Mise à jour (mars 09) de ce [...]

A Website for the ISIC (information Seeking in Context) information behaviour resaerch conference is now at http://informationr.net/isic/ It has links to the papers from 2004, 2006 and 2008 that were published in Information Research, and also scans of the proceedings of the 1996 and 1998 conferences. The latter were not so easy to get hold [...]

The next Staffordshire University Information Literacy Community of Practice (SUILCoP) workshop is on 29 April 2009 at Staffordshire University from 1.30-4.30 pm. Nancy Graham, University of Birmingham: Designing Reusable Learning Objects for Information Literacy: the BRUM project at The University of Birmingham. Keith Puttick, Staffordshire University: The ‘Enquiring minds project’: information literacy and research-informed teaching.Book [...]

Citation for the article:Castiglione, James. “Internet Abuse and Possible Addiction Among Undergraduates: A Developing Concern for Library and University Administrators.” Library Review 57.5 (2008): 358-371.Read via Emerald.I have to admit that title may sound a bit provocative, but the article does look at an issue that has potential to become a serious problem. The article [...]

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania) (Source: Chronicle.com – Jobs in Librarians/library administration) More: continued here

Information Literacy and Technologies Librarian (East Stroudsburg University (ESU), Pennsylvania) (Source: Latest ALA Job Listings) More: continued here

Tim Berners-Lee recently gave a talk at TED that offers a great, easy-to-understand explanation of why we should be looking for ways to put raw data on the web to created a world of linked data.Posted in Linked data, Semantic web, Videos More: continued here

The first issue of the Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education is online. The three main articles are:Uncertainty Dimensions of Information Behaviour in a Group Based Problem Solving by Jette HyldegårdA New Conception of Information Literacy for the Digital Environment in Higher Education by Sharon MarklessGoogle Scholar compared to Web of Science. A [...]