“Bill Taylor was a consistent voice for equality and justice–a voice that will be deeply missed,” Secretary Duncan said. More: continued here

ED and the Justice Department issued a joint letter reaffirming the agencies’ commitment to ensuring that students with disabilities have equal access to emerging technologies in institutions of higher education. More: continued here

July 14-16, 2010, Coe Library, University of Wyoming in LaramieThe Symposium is an annual networking and professional development event for librarians in Wyoming and other states in the region.Health information professionals, along with many public and academic librarians, are keenly interested in health information literacy and health literacy. Health professionals and the public need biomedical [...]

From an information literacy angle comes this story about Russia sending spies to find info that arguable could be easily found in other sources. Excerpt from story: “This reflected the mentality of the institution that is willing to spend millions and millions of dollars to get readily available information,” Cohen says.Maybe they need to hire [...]

JOB DESCRIPTION: Manages the Librarys Information Literacy & Distance Learning programs. PRIMARY JOB RESPONSIBLITIES AND DUTIES:Information literacy (days 11:00 am to 7:00 pm) MAX 3 classes per day All aspects of document/resource delivery to distance ed programs Distance education liaison (Extended Campus Programs, Ed Doctoral Programs, etc.) Database administration/management Systems manager/coordinator: -CWMARS -EZ proxy -Liaison [...]

Senator Robert Byrd was “a champion for America’s children,” Secretary Duncan said. “His leadership will be deeply missed.” More: continued here

The Summer issue 2010 of the Journal of Information Literacy has been published. Contents include:- Mapping Student Information Literacy Activity against Bloom’s Taxonomy of Cognitive Skills: Judith Keene, John Colvin, Justine Sissons- A scoring rubric for performance assessment of information literacy in Dutch higher education: Jos van Helvoort- LibGuides in Political Science: A Gateway to [...]

The Journal of Information Literacy is an international, peer- reviewed journal that aims to investigate information literacy in all its forms to address the interests of diverse IL communities of practice. JIL welcomes contributions that push the boundaries of IL beyond the educational setting and examine this phenomenon as a continuum between those involved in [...]

This 100+ page report examines the opinion of academic librarians of the budget priorities and spending patterns of their library. The report presents detailed data on librarian opinion on whether spending should be increased on books, e-books, databases, librarian salaries, computers and workstations, special collections, information literacy, and other library budget items. The report also [...]

Access Issue (4.1); All Article Full Text, FreeArticles+ Mapping Student Information Literacy Activity against Bloom’s Taxonomy of Cognitive Skillsby Judith Keene, John Colvin, Justine Sissons + A scoring rubric for performance assessment of information literacy in Dutch higher educationby Jos van Helvoort + LibGuides in Political Science: A Gateway to Information Literacy and Improved Student [...]