State: OregonGeneral Description: Develops and coordinates the Library’s distance learning services and programs; coordinates initiatives and training for Library faculty and staff to support distance services in their respective areas; supports course-integrated online information literacy instruction in a collaborative environment; develops policies and procedures for providing access to materials to distributed learning students and faculty; [...]

Call for Submissions and Nominations for PRIMOThe Peer Reviewed Instructional Materials Online (PRIMO) Committee of the ACRL Instruction Section invites you to submit your online information literacy tutorial, virtual tour, or other online library instruction project for review and possible inclusion in PRIMO: Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online.***Deadlines for Fall 2009***Nominations: October 31Submissions: November 14Additional information [...]

There is a Call for Presentations for the Transliteracy Conference being held 9 Feb 2010in Leicester, UK. Themes include: transliteracy and libraries or the arts; transliteracy in education or the workplace or communications; transliteracy and trandisciplinarity; transliteracy in action e.g. digital fiction, networked arts projects, or library resources.Deadline for 250 word abstracts is 1 December, [...]

Watch Secretary Duncan’s presentation on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Oct. 23 at 10:45 am ET. Share your comments during the webcast. More: continued here

Secretary Arne Duncan spoke at Columbia Teachers College about the need to improve teacher preparation across the U.S. More: continued here

The last time I took a written test, I found myself very frustrated. I was sitting by myself in a room, answering questions on a sheet of paper, cut off from the large network of people I have digitally gathered around me over the years. The questions were testing my knowledge, not how I could [...]

Internet Librarian International last week ran a session on next generation catalogues. In the first presentation, Peter Bryant spoke about what he termed “Adaptability, aboutness and authenticity”. Peter is a Learning and Development Tutor at Middlesex University, and specialises in work-based learning, which, he says, is fundamentally about reflection. Peter doesn’t tell his students what [...]

The Peer Reviewed Instructional Materials Online (PRIMO) Committee of the ACRL (American College and Research Libraries) Instruction Section invites you to submit your online information literacy tutorial, virtual tour, or other online library instruction project for review and possible inclusion in PRIMO: Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online. Deadline for autumn 2009 are: Nominations: October 31; Submissions: [...]

If you live/work near Sheffield you may like to attend the following presentation at 3pm-4pm on Tuesday 27th October 2009. It will be in Room 204, 2nd Floor, Department of Information Studies, Sheffield University, Regent Court Building, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1, UK. The Google Maps reference is at http://tinyurl.com/yg32ubp No need to book in [...]

Dr. Forest “Woody” Horton was presented with the first Patricia Senn Breivik award for information literacy at the National Forum on Information Literacy 20th Anniversary Celebration that took place last week: congratulations to him! (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) More: continued here