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Apply for one of 20 $500 grants for public libraries to facilitate the provision of information Literacy training to Adult community education providers (Source: ALIAnet: ALIA home page news) More: continued here

This is the last long report from the IFLA/ World Library and Information Conference taking place in Milan, Italy, but I’ll be doing a few shorter ones e.g. of a couple of posters. This was a session on Wednesday focusing on use of the international UNESCO/IFLA information literacy logo (shown here). This logo was identified [...]

I spent yesterday at the conference & writing to dissertation students and today I actually want to see a little of Milan, so I will wait til this evening to post some more conference entries – particularly one about the information literacy logo competition.In the meantime, a new book has been published in Swedish.Lindqvist, M. [...]

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

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded more than $2.7 million to eight vocational education programs on Oahu and on the ‘big island’ of Hawaii to support career and technical education efforts helping Native Hawaiians. More: continued here

Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced draft requirements for $3.5 billion in Title I School Improvement grants to turn around the nation’s lowest performing schools. More: continued here

Senator Kennedy was a tireless agent of change on behalf of the American people. His passing marks a great loss for both the United States Senate and the Nation. More: continued here

Continuing my reports from the IFLA/ World Library and Information Conference taking place in Milan, Italy and specifically giving the 2nd report on yesterday’s session organised jointly by the Information Literacy and Literacy & Reading Sections of IFLA. I took shorter notes than for the 1st section: basically the whole session was 3 and quarter [...]