There was a lively Twitter stream about the COFHE Librarians as Teachers conference taking place today at Warwick University, UK, today: http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23lat10The conference website (that has the programme) is herePhoto by Sheila Webber: cemetary, Prague 3 (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) More: continued here
Karen Blakeman, a UK information expert, talked about the warring search engines and developments in search at the INFORUM conference in Prague, from which I am selectively reporting. In the early days of the web I used to do regular seminars on business information sources and search engines, with detailed handouts. Karen’s concentrated burst of [...]
Reference/Information Literacy Librarian (Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi) The Mary and Jeff Bell Library at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi (http://rattler.tamucc.edu) would like to advertise the following vacancy.Reference/Information Literacy Librarian:Participates in the provision of reference service to library users on-site and at a distance. Delivers general and course-specific library instruction using a variety [...]
Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAssociate Director for Research and Instruction Services Department: Library Services Location: Gordon Library Grade: Exempt – 830 Position Status: Administrative Exempt Positions Position Description: BASIC FUNCTIONSThe Associate Director for Research and Instruction Servicesis a senior level management position that has primaryresponsibility for planning, coordinating, and promoting theresearch and instruction program in the Gordon [...]
miguelmcorreia #5eol em pausa para almoço 38 minutes ago via web Reply Retweet janjos #5eol @mekije: Desassociar a Biblioteca de Livros nas mentes dos Teens. Associar a “Aprender”, about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck Reply Retweet miguelmcorreia #5eol Não mudou muito com a tecnologia. Os miúdos usam FB para comentar miúdas e [...]
On Thursday I spoke at the Oeiras a ler conference in Oeiras, Portugal, on Information Literacy for 21st Century Life. There will be information on their blog, and there was a twitter stream at http://twitter.com/home#search?q=%235eol%20 (mostly in Portuguese as that was the language of the conference). I will say something about other presentations in a [...]
I have been speaking at the INFORUM 2010 conference in Prague, Czech Republic 25-27 May. http://www.inforum.cz/en/ or in Czech http://www.inforum.cz/cs/ and there is a Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/INFORUM-2010-Conference/309426798874 and twitter stream at http://twitter.com/search?q=%23inforum10 though it mostly consisted of informative tweets from Karen Blakeman (a speaker) when I just looked.Just in general: INFORUM is a well-established [...]
Here is great trigger video to help discussions about the changing library : from University of Technology, Sydney. It’s complete with the usual Plai (Source: pligg – all) More: continued here
La competenza informativa (information literacy) richiama l’interesse e l’impegno di un numero crescente di bibliotecari. All’Università di Cardiff se ne stanno occupando da parecchio tempo e sono state sviluppate diverse risorse utili, tra cui la versione 2009 del manuale ”Handbook for Information Literacy Teaching (HILT)”, liberamente scaricabile da qui. Il manuale si rivolge a bibliotecari e docenti universitari, [...]
David Nicholas, whose career does not seem to have suffered in spite of having to teach me subject bibliography at the Polytechnic of North London on the postgraduate course in 1983, talked to a full house at CILIP in London’s AGM on his research into the Google generation. I and others tweeted throughout, and you [...]