http://blog.lvanj.org News about literacy and the benefits of reading. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:00:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A study was undertaken in four Tanzanian universities to investigate the status and practice of information literacy (IL) so as to determine the best ways of ... http://blog.lvanj.org/2008/08/20/information-literacy-in-tanzanian-universities-challenges-and-potential-opportunities/ (Source: Journal of Librarianship and Information Science current issue) More: continued here http://blog.lvanj.org/2008/08/20/book-review-change-and-challenges-information-literacy-for-the-21st-century-edited-by-susie-andretta-2007-adelaide-auslib-press-202pp-a4400-isbn-9780980330113/ DAVID THOMPSON HEALTH REGIONPlease submit applications to: Regional Recruitment Centre5110-49 Ave. P.O. Box 1000, Ponoka, AB., T4J 1R8Web Site: www.dthr.ab.ca Email: recruit@dthr.ab.ca Fax: (403)704-2580Bulletin Number: 08-HRS-2509 REVISED Date Posted: August 12, 2008Closing Date: ... http://blog.lvanj.org/2008/08/20/medical-library-technician-consumer-health-information-technician-red-deer-regional-hospital-centre-red-deer-ab/ The LACUNY Professional Development Committee presents the PSC-CUNY Grants Workshop on Thursday, September 18 from 10-noon in the 4th floor conference room of the Newman Library at Baruch College. CUNY librarians who won grants to fund their research will speak about the process of designing a research project and crafting ... http://blog.lvanj.org/2008/08/20/psc-cuny-grants-workshop-thursday-september-18/ Thanks to Christine Irving who alerted me to the article:Rich, M. (2008) "Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading" New York Times, 27 July. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/27reading.html?_r=1&oref=slogin It includes a video which features a family where the parents read lots of print and the children lots of online. At time of writing ... http://blog.lvanj.org/2008/08/19/reading/ Thanks to Eva Horning for identifying this page on the IASL (international school librarians) webpage. Some of the links are more generally about teaching information literacy, but there were certainly a couple I hadn't come across before. I think I might have blogged this previously, but it is worth noting ... http://blog.lvanj.org/2008/08/19/information-literacy-assessment-some-online-tools-and-guides/ I had a presentation at the University of Sheffield in 13 August as part of a seminar organized by the Centre for Information Literacy Research. In my talk entitled “Implications of the Information Visibility Model in Information Literacy Research and Practice”, I briefly described selective findings of two follow-up studies ... http://blog.lvanj.org/2008/08/18/implications-of-the-information-visibility-model/ Even though the work of Gee, Prensky, Jenkins, and others have addressed videogames value to literacy. And with the ALA focusing on gaming and literacy, drawing connections, and increasing our patron/students’ ability… students have still struggled on traditional evaluations. Squire (2005) suggest that the failure is not in ... http://blog.lvanj.org/2008/08/18/connecting-the-multiple-literacies-a-librarian-call-to-action/ The 6th conference of the Czech information literacy working group, IVIG 2008, takes place on 25th September 2008 in Prague, Czech Republic. For more information (in Czech) go to http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ivig/ivig2008.html (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) More: continued here http://blog.lvanj.org/2008/08/18/ivig-2008/ Whilst checking back through draft blog entries I came across a number of unfinished conference reports. Ooops! One of them was from the LILAC conference, the UK’s major annual information literacy confernce which took place in Liverpool 17-19 March.As well as presentations being online there are also podcasts of the ... http://blog.lvanj.org/2008/08/18/report-from-lilac-5/