John IrvingIf you listen to this issue of OnPoint, once you run the player and the entire show has loaded, if you want to skip to the part where Irving talks about his learning issues, drag the slider to 40 minutes where a caller asks him about this.In short, he says that the multitasking in [...]

There is a Social Media Seminar Series: Trends and Implications for Learning, with the next session tomorrow, Friday October 30 at 9pm Eastern time in the USA (1am in the UK at the moment – World Clock Calculator: http://url.aace.org/ft/200910302100) This is organised by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Its a [...]

One of my students used a recent article as the subject for a review they submit (so thank you, Akanksha) and it is one of a number that shows that US librarians are taking advantage of US Information Literacy Awareness Month to get in the press. This article isSmall, R.V. and Arnone, M.P. (2009) Information [...]

“Far too many states are telling students that they are proficient when they actually are performing below the basic level” on the Nation’s Report Card, Secretary Duncan said in response to a new report. More: continued here

When Students go Mobile: The Effects of Smartphones on Information Literacy and Academic Library ServicesKristen Yarmey-TylutkiStudents with smartphones think of them as leisure devices, not academic devices — only 11% in a recent survey. But this is likely to grow as libraries build more smartphone-ready content and services.2000 ACRL Information Competency Standards. Are these standards [...]

SCIL (Southern California Instruction Librarians) Works 2010: Practice, Practice, Practice (P3): Reinvigorating ILI Pedagogy takes place at CSU Chancellor’s Office, Long Beach, USA on February 5, 2010. There is a call for proposals on one of these themes: Reinventing “Sessions”; Rethinking Relationships; Reinterpreting/Reframing the Standards (plus, for poster sessions only: Really! Less is More) The [...]

Don’t forget that the NN/LM MCR has up to $15,000 to fund worthy projects submitted by Network members from the region. We are now accepting applications for projects focussed on health information literacy, hospital library advocacy, or emergency planning. Projects may take up to 18 months to complete. Deadline for proposals is December 31, 2009. [...]

[...] Politiques | règlementations | énoncés publics : Aux États-Unis, le président Barack Obama décrétait le mois d’octobre le mois national de la sensibilisation à la maîtrise de l’information. La proclamation intitulée « National Information Literacy Awareness Month » proclame que l’apprentissage de nouvelles habiletés est aujourd’hui nécessaire afin d’acquérir, colliger et évaluer une masse [...]

Hello Re:Generations community! I am new to the blogging team, and I am so pleased to be a part of a group of such a vibrant group of academic librarians. This is my very first post! As a brief introduction, my name is Meghan, and I completed the Master of Information Studies program at the [...]

The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) annual conference takes place in Charlotte, USA, November 5-8. Registration is on-site only at this point, but there are also some virtual options (see web addresses at the end). Information Literacy is always a key theme, especially as the Standards for the 21st-Century Learner put more emphasis on [...]