Jaime Escalante dies at 79; math teacher who challenged East L.A. students to ‘Stand and Deliver’Jaime Escalante, the charismatic former East Los Angeles high school teacher who taught the nation that inner-city students could master subjects as demanding as calculus, died Tuesday. He was 79.The subject of the 1988 film “Stand and Deliver,” Escalante died [...]
Last thursday myPhD Student, Phussadee Dokphrom, successfully defended her thesis investigating the information literacy needs of undergraduate students in the humanities faculty at Silpakorn University, Thailand, and should shortly become Dr Dokphrom subject to completing minor amendments to her thesis. She is pictured here with her external examiner, Professor Dorothy Williams (left) and her internal [...]
A book that was published later last year and I missed reporting:Davis, S., Drinan, P. and Gallant, T. (2009) Cheating in School: What We Know and What We Can Do. Wiley. ISBN: 978-1-4051-7804-4(“School” here covers secondary and tertiary education, not just what we would call “school” in the UK) It discusses why students cheat and [...]
Issue 8.1 of Elsevier Library Connect is now available in either HTML or PDFArticles Include:+ Understanding information trustworthiness in the networked information ecosystem by Clifford Lynch+ Tracey Brown talks about the value of peer review+ Researcher tools for evaluating trustworthiness: CrossCheck Plagiarism Screening and CrossMark by Carol Anne Meyer+ Students of tomorrow need trusted contentby [...]
The INFORUM conference takes place 25-27 May 2010 in the beautiful city of Prague, Czech Republic. It is an established annual conference which “deals with professional electronic information resources for research, development, education and business purposes.” I am one of the guest speakers, talking about information literacy in the 21st Century. Registration is open. http://www.inforum.cz/en/Photo [...]
Just about every student group I see I ask how many of them have done or edited a Wikipedia site and the result is always only 1 or 2. Wikipedia is o (Source: pligg – all) More: continued here
State: Washington (State)See online Notice of Vacancy at: http://www.lib.washington.edu/about/employment/librarians/RefInstrUWB.htmlNOTICE OF VACANCYMarch 18, 2010TITLE: Reference & Instruction Librarian/First Year Experience Coordinator LOCATION: Cascadia Community College and University of Washington Bothell Campus LibraryThe University of Washington Libraries seeks a creative and energetic librarian to participate in a collaborative team at the University of Washington Bothell and Cascadia [...]
State: CaliforniaResponsible for library strategic planning, administration and management of internal operations, communication and coordination with campus, faculty, staff, and other external organizations, evaluation of library programs and services, development of library information technology, budgeting and fund raising, and participation in college governance and committee structures. Articulates a vision of the library’s future and provides [...]
I’m not at LILAC (the UK information literacy conference, 29-31 March) this year (actually I’m “on holiday” at the moment) – but you can follow some of what is going on, via Twitter http://twitter.com/search?q=%23lilac2010 and various bloggers e.g. http://library.hud.ac.uk/blogs/il/, http://thesheckspot.blogspot.com/Photo by Sheila Webber: Lilac won’t be out here for a while, so here are some [...]
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is a nationally and internationally recognized research and development lab based in Washington State.This position reports to the Manager of the Information Services Group and provides professional information research services for PNNL staff and the staff of specific other Hanford contractors and corporate account holders. Duties include leadership for the [...]