Secretary Duncan commended California for being the first state to submit an application under the Education Jobs Fund. More: continued here

Congratulations to  our latest outreach funding opportunity awardee, Project Manager Laura Zeigen and Oregon Health & Science University. Their project, Health Information Literacy Partnership: Oregon Physician Assistants and the OHSU Library, has as its goal to enable Oregon’s physician assistants to improve awareness and use of reliable health information resources, improving health information literacy for Oregon’s clinicians and patients.In [...]

Last term the Library Team at Joeys excelled themselves in launching an amazing “Body in the Library” investigative program in collaboration with the Science and English faculties. I promised to share this after talking about it at EduBloggerCon 2010 in Denver.  So here are some more of the details!Boy’s body found in the Resource Centre! [...]

Nach der Konferenz ist vor der Konferenz… Hier die Ankündigung von Frau Gunes. (Ich hoffe ja, dass man dort keinen Lagerkoller bekommt, das sieht so abgeschottet und ländlich aus )…The European Association for Health Information and Libraries -EAHIL The EAHIL Istanbul Workshop, Turkey, 5th – 8th July 2011The EAHIL Workshop will be held in Istanbul [...]

Chapter one of Vanishing Act: The Erosion of Online Footnotes and Implications for Scholarship in the Digital Age, by Michael Bugeja and Daniela V. Dimitrova, is now online:Extinct Citations, Missing Links and Other Bibliographical WondersA decade ago, most research was done in the library rather than through its Web site, and scholars, editors, graduate directors [...]

This paper looks at how the provision of information literacy training is supported in the further education sector. Using a case study, the results demonstrate how an online information literacy programme can be used as a staff development tool, in order that Learning Resources staff are better equipped to support students in their information literacy [...]

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For this disabled job seeker, it’s all about networking It’s also all about the sound of his voice: he gets calls from people interested in his resume but his dysarthria scares them away. That’s his (and my) theory anyway. No way to prove it but it makes sense. It would have scared me before I [...]

Related Articles Pharmacists’ online information literacy: an assessment of their use of Internet-based medicines information. Health Info Libr J. 2010 Sep 1;27(3):208-16 Authors: Peterson-Clark G, Aslani P, Williams KA Introduction: Pharmacists need effective skills in accessing and using Internet-based medicines information (IBMI) for themselves and their consumers. However, there is limited information regarding how pharmacists [...]

Judge overturns Calif. gay marriage ban – Yahoo! NewsDespite the favorable ruling for same-sex couples, gay marriage will not be allowed to resume immediately. Judge Walker said he wants to decide whether his order should be suspended while the proponents of the ban pursue their appeal in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.(tags: legal [...]