Found out something simply great today! The post on an Information Literacy class I did a few years back got linked in Schoollibs.I suddenly longed to work in a school library again. (Source: School Librarian in Action) More: continued here

The UK’s CILIP CSG-Information Literacy Group is seeking views on the services, resources and events they provide. Members and non-members are asked to complete a short survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RS9V53G If you provide contact details, you will be entered into a prize draw. All data resulting from the survey will be kept anonymous. The closing date [...]

At the COLIS2010 conference the new International Information Literacies Research Network was publicised. “The Network brings together researchers with a shared interest in information literacies research and will focus on sociocultural approaches to understanding information literacies, while acknowledging variation regarding methodological approaches amongst researchers. Through collective efforts our intention is to build a network that [...]

Head, Rivera Reference Services Department (University of California-Riverside) THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDEThe University of California Riverside Libraries seeks a creative, dynamic, and user-focused librarian to lead the Reference Services Department of the Tomás Rivera Library. The University of California, Riverside (UCR) is one of ten campuses of the University of California system.The Head [...]

Subject Librarian For Life Sciences (Brigham Young University, Utah) Brigham Young University (BYU), a privately owned and operated university of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, located in Provo, Utah, invites application for a continuing faculty status (CFS) track position in the Public Services Division of the Harold B. Lee Library. Preference is [...]

Call for Papers für das 12. ISI (Internationale Symposium für Informationswissenschaft) an der Uni Hildesheim unter dem Motto “Information und Wissen: global, sozial und frei?”Beiträge sind insbesondere zu folgenden Themenschwerpunkten gewünscht * E-Learning, E-Science * E-Society, E-Culture, E-Commerce * Globalisierung von Informationsprozessen * Information Retrieval * Informationsinfrastruktur und ihre Weiterentwicklung (u. a. Forschungsdaten, virtuelle Forschungsumgebungen) [...]

I’m giving brief reports from the COLIS 2010 conference in London, UK. I will cover a study of Wikipedia editors and then (more briefly) a study on using Wikipedia editing as a task in schools. Helena Francke (Boras University) and Olof Sundin (Lund University) presented on Credibility in Wikipedia from the perspective of editors. They [...]

At the COLIS 2010 conference Jenna Hartel (University of Toronto, Canada) talked about Time as framework for information science: insights from the hobby of gourmet cooking. Since it is not so relevant to this blog, I will not cover the part about the framework for information science, but I will give a short glimpse into [...]

A couple of months ago, a group of librarians where I work came up with a Digital Strategy to guide our use of resources and help us make decisions in the future. We are a single-branch public library, employing around 4.5FTE librarians,  that aims to provide a service to match the cutting-edge design of our [...]

Our colleagues in the Mid-Continental Region are hosting their annual Wyoming Symposium in July and would like to extend an invitation to our region, especially the neighboring states of Montana and Idaho!   The focus of this year’s Symposium is Health Literacy and Health Information Literacy. The Symposium is an annual networking and professional development event [...]