← Previous revision Revision as of 19:07, 20 January 2010 Line 85: Line 85: The most significant example of how technology has changed the role of librarians in the last 50 years has been the move from traditional card catalogs to online public access catalogs ([[OPAC]]s).{{Fact|date=April 2009}} Librarians had to develop software and the [[MARC [...]

Librarian roles and duties: image ← Previous revision Revision as of 14:01, 22 January 2010 Line 20: Line 20: *”Instruction Librarians” teach information literacy skills in face-to-face classes and/or through the creation of online learning objects. They instruct library users on how to find, evaluate and use information effectively. They are most common in academic [...]

The New England Library Instruction Group (NELIG), an interest group of ACRL New England, is requesting proposals for its annual program Meeting Digital Natives Where They Are: New Standards for the New Student, to be held at Yale University in Orange, CT, on Friday June 4, 2010.Proposal topics could include topics such as: Using Twitter, [...]

An article on information literacy in the norwegian science library blog ERR-BE made me think about how library workers and users percieve the information rich environment in a library or a library web-site with links to databases and services. The image of fish and divers came to me this morning.How does fish percieve the sea? [...]

Looking to expand your knowledge of health literacy? Need practical tools for improving health literacy in your hospital, community or university? Join leaders in the field of health literacy at the Hyatt Regency in Irvine, California (near OC airport) May 6-7, 2010, for the 9th Annual Health Literacy Conference sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare [...]

Intel Reader Offers High Tech Help For Dyslexics and Visually ImpairedIntel’s Reader, developed by a dyslexic Stanford graduate, is a powerful device for dyslexic and visually impaired readers, allowing them to scan entire pages of text to audio for immediate playback or later review.This looks quite interesting. If anyone reading this has used one or [...]

Pen vs. Keyboard vs. Newton vs. Graffiti vs. Treo vs. iPhoneThis is a great review. It’s not a scientific test but it explores these different methods of getting text into a device in a way that will help anyone think about the future of text encoding on a variety of devices in a broader way.The [...]

Read this review of the Obama Administration’s education efforts in 2009. More: continued here

We’ve all heard allusions to “millennials” and the “net generation” ad nauseam. While it’s certain that sweeping technological change has coincided with generational change, I am always wary of categorizing people and their needs simply according to their age.Indeed, plenty of research has shown that students currently in university aren’t necessarily technically skilled and that [...]

JORUM, the respository for digital learning objects that was created for UK higher and further education, is now making some content available to people anywhere. Some materials are still only available to UK institutions, but “JorumOpen””provides free access to a growing collection of open educational resources, for all to benefit worldwide, via Jorum’s trusted source [...]