A report on schools and districts leading the way in using data to improve instruction and accountability. More: continued here

To mark the holding of the LILAC conference in Limerick in 2010, the Library Association of Ireland (LAI) and the Consortium of National and University Libraries (CONUL) are jointly offering an award of €500 for achievement in the field of Information Literacy (IL) in the Republic of Ireland. Nominations for this award to an individual [...]

A couple of examples of using Jing to produce short online tutorials from Spencer Jardine: http://spencerjardine.blogspot.com/2010/01/jing-awesome-way-to-promote-information.htmlPhoto by Sheila Webber: Mosaic on the Moscow underground, December 2009. (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) More: continued here

Instructional Services Librarian / Collection Development (Eckerd College, Florida) Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL. Ten-month, tenure track, assistant professor. ALA approved M.L.S. or equivalent degree required. Begin July 1, 2010.Assist in developing information literacy programming, instruct patrons in the use of print and electronic information sources within the context of an undergraduate liberal arts college. [...]

I’m very excited to have joined the gang over at ALA Learning, and today was my first post! We’re starting the new year with getting to know you posts, so that’s what I have over there. Here’s a little of what you will find:What training do you do? staff? patrons? types of classes?I’ll teach pretty [...]

The IL-HUMASS survey on information literacy has been designed, based on and aimed to be applied to a population of students, teachers and librarians holding various degrees in social sciences and humanities at Spanish and Portuguese universities. The case-study method, experts’ opinions, and a literature review were used to prepare an initial version that was [...]

Resource of the Week — Some Thoughts on “Controlled Serendipity”By Gary Price and Shirl Kennedy, editors‘Controlled Serendipity’ Liberates the Web (Nick Bilton, New York Times) If someone approached me even five years ago and explained that one day in the near future I would be filtering, collecting and sharing content for thousands of perfect strangers [...]

(Outreach and Information Literacy) – Information Services – Aberystwyth University / Date of entry: 24/01/10 (Source: jobs in Information Management and Librarianship from www.jobs.ac.uk) More: continued here

Authors: Thomas P. Mackey, Trudi E. JacobsonAccepted: January 24, 2010Anticipated Publication Date: January 2011Source: College and Research Libraries PREPRINTSocial media environments and online communities are innovative collaborative technologies that challenge traditional definitions of information literacy. Metaliteracy is an overarching and self-referential framework that integrates emerging technologies and unifies multiple literacy types. This redefinition of information [...]

TACCLE (Teachers' Aids on Creating Content for Learning Environments), an EU funded Comenius multilateral project, has released a handbook on e-learning. The publication is mainly addressed to classroom teachers, but is useful for a broader audience including school librarians involved in preparing and providing e-learning classes and information literacy. It's available in 7 languages – [...]