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• New issue of Codex: assessment focus

  
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  Volume 2 number 3 of Codex: the Journal of the Louisiana Chapter of the ACRL has been published. It is open access, but you need to register. Articles include: - "Assessment of Information Literacy: A Critical Bibliography": Robin Brown, Phyllis Niles (pp.100-149). An interesting annotated bibliography: as you can ...
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• New issue of JIL: ethical practice, healthcare, transition, international support and more

  
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  The open-access Journal of information literacy volume 7 issue 1 has been published. The articles are: - Information literacy and embedded librarianship in an online graduate programme by Swapna Kumar, Mary E Edwards - Information literacy as a facilitator of ethical practice in the professions by Marc Forster - ...
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• The Citation project

  
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  The (North American) Citation project "is a multi-institution research project responding to educators’ concerns about plagiarism and the teaching of writing.... Our team systematically studies student papers that were produced in college writing courses and that draw on sources. Our purpose is to describe how ...
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• Health Literacy: the solid facts

  
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  Interesting new free publication: Kickbusch, I. (ed) et al. (2013) Health literacy: the solid facts . World Health Organization (WHO). ISBN 978 92 890 0015 4. http://www.euro.who.int/en/what-we-do/health-topics/environment-and-health/urban-health/publications/2013/health-literacy.-the-solid-facts The aim is to ...
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• Georgia Conference on Information Literacy: 2013 and presentations from 2012

  
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  The presentations from the 2012 Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy (held September 21-22, 2012) are at http://dspaceprod.georgiasouthern.edu:8080/jspui/handle/10518/5214 . This years Georgia Conference on Information Literacy takes place August 23-24 2013 in Savannah, Georgia, USA. The ...
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• RILADS: evaluating postgraduate/research infolit training

  
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  There are a couple of just-published outcomes from the Research Information Literacy and Digital Scholarship (RILADS) project. One is a report from one strand of the project "looking at the identification and promotion of good practice in information training in UK HE [Higher Education]" (with a focus on researcher ...
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• MUNPARLAS Seminar-Workshop on Information Literacy

  
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  INFO-LIT POWER PACKAGES on July 19, 2013 @ De la Salle Zobel School from Roderick Ramos
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• The CRAPpy Song (by The Crap Test Dummies)

  
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  Inspired by (and not to be outdone by) my recent effort to convey information literacy skills in song, my colleague Chad Bauman has written and recorded a song of his own. It is focused on the CRAP... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  1 week ago

• Information Literacy

  
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  by kxlly In this study, the development of focal participants’ technological literacy also was closely related to another 21st-century proficiency known as information literacy. Information literacy refers to the ability to seek out and critically evaluate information across a range of media. This includes ...
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• To measure or not to measure at #colrictt13

  
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  I will do a couple of blog posts from the COLRIC (Council for Learning Resources in Colleges) information literacy event in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which focuses on the Further Education sector. Grazyna Kuczeras session was called: To measure or not to measure . She is from Northampton College, which won the 2011 ...
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• NFIL asking for USA librarians collaborations

  
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  The USAs National Forum on Information Literacy (NFIL) is "conducting an informal survey to see how many of Americas 3000+ 2-4 yr college and university libraries are involved in the following: 1) actively engaged in IL programmatic collaborations with on-campus and/or off campus pre-college, remediation, and/or ...
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• June 10 – 16 is Men’s Health Week

  
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  June 10 – 16 is National Men’s Health Week. The purpose of Men’s Health Week is to heighten the awareness of preventable health problems and encourage early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys. This week gives health care providers, public policy makers, the media, and individuals an ...
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• Rethinking ACRL’s Information Literacy Standards: The Process Begins

  
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  ACRL’s Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (“the Standards”) were first adopted in 2000. Since then the Standards have become one of, if not the most essential document, related to the emergence of information literacy as a recognized learning outcome at many institutions of higher ...
  2 weeks ago

• Intellectual freedom; Sharing information; peregrines

  
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  A couple of new open-access articles: - Meyer N, and Bradley, d. (2013) "Collaboratively Teaching Intellectual Freedom to Education Students" Education Libraries , 36 (1) http://education.sla.org/?page_id=727 (includes links to material they used with the students) - Sar, R. and Al–Saggaf, Y. (2013) "Propagation ...
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• "The Mongoliad, Part One": Kindle Book Review

  
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  With a background studying medieval literature and a liking for such epic adventures in modern guise, I figured this might entertain. I didnt read any of the hundreds of {Amazon, where this was #250} reviews, preferring to judge for myself. The results after part one on my Kindle? Ill check out part two. Its ...
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• Presentations from #WILU2013 (Canadian Information Literacy conference) available

  
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  As usual, it looks like there were interesting sessions at the WILU conference that took place last month in Fredericton, Canada. The presentations are up online already. Just a few that caught my eye: - “You must come see my daughter’s pet deer”: Cultural immersion for effective offshore distance learner ...
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• Cross Check Info Before Making Big Decisions

  
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  State is the official employee magazine of the US State Department. It is also available to the public. One regular feature is “Post of the Month.” For the May 2013 issue (PDF), this was the US Embassy in Nepal, based in Katmandu. The article describes Nepal and Katmandu in fairly glowing terms. My suspicions ...
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• New Insurance Tools

  
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  Medicare Plan Finder Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services – Includes a searchable website, either by general or personal information, which locates Medicare cost estimates and coverage information for your area. For more information:  http://goo.gl/m4qdU   Enroll America: New virtual tool available. ...
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• Moving from ‘e’ to ‘d’ – what does a Digital University really look like?

  
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  This is a presentation being made tomorrow by Bill Johnston at Dundee University, looking at the place of information literacy within the "digital" university. It continues on from the framework proposed by him and Sheila MacNeill initially at ...
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• Viva La Library (The Information Literacy Song)

  
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  I was looking recently for an amusing song to convey key points about information literacy to students. Since I didn’t find something that was in a style I could relate to, I made this. It is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  2 weeks ago

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