51 moms representing each state and DC will attend the first annual Mom Congress on Education and Learning Conference May 2 in DC. Watch Secretary Duncan’s speech at the conference live on May 3 at 10:30 EDT. More: continued here

Reference/Instruction Librarian (Radford University, McConnell Library, Virginia) McConnell Library, Radford UniversityReference/Instruction LibrarianJohn P. McConnell Library at Radford University seeks a creative, enthusiastic, user-oriented librarian to join a team of library faculty committed to providing first-rate public services to our academic community. As part of a dynamic and pro-active information literacy instruction team, the librarian will [...]

Middlebridge School1065 Worden’s Pond RoadWakefield, RI 02879401-788-0800http://middlebridgeschool.org/ More: continued here

THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA LIBRARIESSection Head, Seven Oaks Hospital LibraryThe University of Manitoba Libraries seeks a dynamic, highly-motivated person for the position of Section Head, Seven Oaks Hospital Library at an Assistant Librarian rank to begin September 1, 2010, or as soon as possible thereafter. This position normally has a two year probationary period and [...]

Yesterday I attended a Symposium on the Future of Course Materials held at my University. It’s the sort of thing I’d be really interested in regardless (I have been for over a year), but I was able to attend as a member of the Strategic Planning Committee on Innovation in Technology and Information.And I had [...]

The most recent (2009) free issue of SCONUL focus includesInformation skills for art and design: the InfosmART project at the Glasgow School of Art Library by Duncan Chappell;The Information Source Evaluation Matrix: a quick, easy and transferable content evaluation tool by Kaye Towlson, Mike Leigh, Lucy Mathers;R@P: developing and promoting the Referencing@Portsmouth service by James [...]

Are you a spork?We’ve posted another position at My Place of Work — one that like the last position for Head of Access Services (now filled by an excellent librarian-to-be) is designed to be transformative. Not to mention fun, absorbing, interesting, challenging, and greatly satisfying.I’m a little — well, really, quite — unhappy with how [...]

Christine Irving came to talk to my Information Literacy Research students last Thursday (she is pictured here with this Masters-level class: she is in the middle of the front row). She has been working with the Scottish Information Literacy Project, which sadly has now come to a close at Glasgow Caledonian University after five years.One [...]

I meant to point to this ages ago but it dropped to the bottom of my inbox.Roy Tennant first brought it to my attention in his online LJ blog.Twelve Library User Studies Distilled April 6, 2010 JISC has just announced the paper “The Digital Information Seeker: Report of findings from selected OCLC, RIN and JISC [...]

Special Collections Librarian (James Madison University, Virginia) JMU Libraries& Educational Technologies (L&ET) seeks a creative, dynamic, and service-oriented professional to serve as Special Collections Librarian. The JMU Libraries are part of the Libraries and Educational Technologies division, which has the mission of enriching our communities by building learning and information environments where people connect with [...]