Speakers: Stephanie Rosenblatt, Eric Frierson, Carmen Kazakoff ,Mick JacobsenModerated by: Anne HoustonDate time place: Saturday July 11, 2009 from 10:30am – 12:00pm at McCormick Place South, S105 a-dSponsor: Reference User Services Association, Machine Assisted Reference Section   (RUSA MARS)The first speaker was Stephanie Rosenblatt Education Librarian, California State University, Fullerton.once she had created her screencast (i.e. video) tutorials [...]

More research supporting the end of the digital native mythology: (Source: Random Access Mazar) More: continued here

As part of an NN/LM SCR funded project, SMILE (Sharing MedlinePlus/MEDLINE for Information Literacy Education), library staff from the UT Health Science Center, San Antonio developed an online tutorial to provide instruction that focuses on finding and evaluating information relevant to public health dental practice.  The Oral Health Information Tutorial is now available for practitioners [...]

A good number of librarians linked to the Library Day in the Life website, to report on their day http://librarydayinthelife.pbworks.com/ (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) More: continued here

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

Very belatedly I am catching up with the last two reports from the the i3 conference held in Aberdeen in June. Dr Kendra Albright (University of South Carolina) gave the last keynote speech Multidisciplinarity in Information Behaviour: Expanding Boundaries or Fragmentation of the Field? (that is a link to the presentation). I will pick out [...]

Secretary Duncan announced five new members of his leadership team. More: continued here

Getting the most out of Google. 24 September. Newcastle, UK.http://www.cilip.org.uk/training/training/2009/ict/gettingthemostoutofgoogle.htm Twitter for librarians. 24 September. London, UK.http://www.cilip.org.uk/training/training/2009/ict/Twitterforlibrarians.htm (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) More: continued here

The Collection Development Librarian keeps abreast of developments in publishing and scholarly communications, articulates the direction and balance of collections, maintains and adheres to collection development policies, prepares budget analyses, and evaluates the use of all library resources through circulation statistics and syllabi analyses.The Collection Development Librarian coordinates the overall development of the library collection, [...]

Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced the availability of $52 million in recovery funds for Vermont to save teaching jobs and drive education reform. More: continued here