Eight states will receive $6.6 million in Striving Readers grants to improve the literacy skills of struggling adolescent readers. More: continued here

Since (surprisingly) no-one appeared to have done it yet, I have set up a group on Flickr called Information Literacy. At the moment anyone can join and add photos immediately to the pool, so please do if you have photos you think are in some way related to information literacy.http://www.flickr.com/groups/infolit/pool/ Photo by Sheila Webber: Spot [...]

Monday, 28 September 2009. A new review of our book! Monica Blake provides a review of our book, Information Literacy meets Library 2.0, in the lates (Source: pligg – all) More: continued here

On September 25, 2009, members of the Regents Advisory Council on Libraries met at the METRO offices in New York City. As I have done since I joined the Council two years ago, I am providing my notes here for everyone to read. These are not the official minutes from the meeting. If any at [...]

Consult individually with students and faculty on research projects, methods, and best practices; work closely with academic department representativ (Source: pligg – all) More: continued here

From the Federal Register Announcement (PDF):President Obama issued a directive to all Federal agencies calling for greater transparency, public participation, and collaboration. In response to this Directive, and in keeping with the work that has already been done by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to encourage public input and provide science-based health resources and [...]

Adjunct Information Literacy Instructor (Source: Combined Library Job Postings – Lisjobs.com and Library Job Postings on the Internet) More: continued here

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Beth Clark (Head of Electronic Services, Library, School of Oriental and African Studies) asked about use of “clickers” (personal response systems) on the lis-infoliteracy list. She referred to City University’s web page as an introduction about the technology:http://www.city.ac.uk/ldc/learning_tech/prs/index.htmland in a subsequent post someone recommended a delicious site that bookmarks pages on voting systems http://delicious.com/rscwales/voting_systemsBeth Clark [...]