Illinois, Massachusetts, and New Jersey will receive additional funding under the Recovery Act, ED announced earlier this month. More: continued here

ED published a summary of state laws, regulations, policies, and guidelines regarding the use of restraint and seclusion techniques in schools. More: continued here

Agriculture Secretary Vilsack’s priorities for reauthorizing the Child Nutrition Act “would be a major step in the right direction for the health and well-being of our school children,” Secretary Duncan said. More: continued here

adding “freemium” to my microsoft dictionary [shifted]@cap60552 does friday night still work for you? hey, @ebethmoreau — are you free to play games, too? #akla10 #akla2010 [shifted]Posted LibraryRemix: RT @Nadodi List of social change games from @G4C: http://bit.ly/agafpz.Posted aarontay: RT @karenneves: New blog post: Using LibGuides for Information Literacy in Medicine: http://bit.ly/c8RLD2 nice highly customized [...]

Director of Libraries (Dwight-Englewood School, New Jersey) Full-time, 12 month,MLS PreferredDynamic, visionary leader fluent in recent treads in technology, social media, and information literacy. The successful candidate will work closely with principals and department chairs to re-define the role of the School’s libraries in the age of technology and to more deeply integrate research and [...]

The next seminar in the series Literacy in the Digital University takes place on Monday March 1st in Glasgow, Scotland: Seminar 2: Digital texts and practices: learning across boundaries. There is more information at http://lidu.open.ac.uk/glasgow-mar-2010.cfmMaterial from the first seminar (“The relation of new media practices to traditional literacy practices in the academy and the professions”) [...]

Over the last three decades, promotion of information literacy has become one of the main goals of librarians and academics. As the emergence of information technologies has raised new challenges and roles for users, information literacy has shifted from the concept of simple training to the provision of the skills and competencies that are critical [...]

I’ve been doing an evaluation exercise with many of my English 151 classes for the last couple of years.  It works pretty well, and I’ve had several instructors request that I repeat it again for their future classes.  Many of my colleagues have been asked about this exercise, so I thought I would put it [...]

The winners of the 2010 NN/LM MidContinental Region Continuity of Health Information Awards are:Washington University School of Medicine, Becker Medical Library:  Mobile School Health Information Initiative (MoSHI), Principal Investigators- Will Olmstadt, Bob Engeszer and Judy Hansen.   Integrating the Medical Library Into Hospital Emergency Planning, Principal Investigator- Betsy Kelly.Denver Public Library, A Bridge to Health Literacy [...]

The changing landscape of search: essential new tools for finding information is a seminar at the University of Manchester, UK, 14 July 2010. It will be led by the experienced information consultant, Karen Blakeman. For more info go to http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2010/landscapeofsearch.htm This is also a good opportunity to publicise Karen’s electronic newsletterhttp://www.rba.co.uk/tfttr/index.shtml (headline in the Jan [...]