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• Twitter Spammers – Your Friends are Innocent

  
  Hidden Business Treasures — Authority: 91
  How would you like to get vilified in public, dropped by your friends and feel like a dope? Easy these days. Just join Twitter and click on one of the fraudulent private messages that your trusted Twitter buddies are sending you. Wait a minute! They actually NEVER sent them. Here’s the scoop.   As we said ...
  3 hours ago

• Support for Research: An Academic Library Manifesto

  
  Feral Librarian — Authority: 103
  Support for the Research Process: An Academic Library Manifesto has just been published. This brief call to action document represents the collaborative work of the RLG Research Information Management Roadmap Working Group . The goal of the document is to set forth a “top 10″ list of action items for Academic ...
  1 day ago

• A Look at Cyberchondria

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 648
  Did you know that cyberchondria is an actual term? From the Article: Cyberchondria, loosely defined as the baseless fueling of fears and anxiety about common health symptoms due to Internet research, or, as I like to think of it, Googling oneself into a state of absolute, clinical hysteria over every last pain, ...
  2 days ago

• The October, 2009 Issue of the IFLA Journal is Now Available

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 648
  Access the Complete Issue (35.3) (PDF) This Issue includes: + Editorial: Reading, Information Literacy and Professional Development +Reading Sources and Reading Spaces in Honduras + Information Literacy and Scholarly Investigation: a British perspective + Our Space: professional development for new graduates ...
  4 days ago

• Web 2.0 and Libraries

  
  Business Blog — Authority: 106
  I had a library school student who emailed me some questions about Web 2.0 and libraries. Rather than reply via email, I made this video. This video also serves double duty as my Day 6 video for NaVloPoMo. Take a look at libraryvoice.com/videos for my other videos for the month. Formats available : MPEG4 Video ...
  5 days ago

• Web 2.0 and Libraries

  
  Library Voice — Authority: 110
  I had a library school student who emailed me some questions about Web 2.0 and libraries. Rather than reply via email, I made this video. This video also serves double duty as my Day 6 video for NaVloPoMo. Take a look at libraryvoice.com/videos for my other videos for the month. Formats available : MPEG4 Video ...
  5 days ago

• Teaching Twitter

  
  Emerging — Authority: 98
  Last Friday I did two sessions with library staff around Twitter. We’ve explored Twitter before, but it was two years ago, before the explosion of use. What I wanted to demonstrate was how people use Twitter in a conference setting. I find it so engaging to listen to something and process it through and with Twitter ...
  6 days ago

• Núria Ferran Ferrer

  
  Information Literacy Weblog — Authority: 124
  From August to October my Department/ Centre for Information Literacy Research was visited by Núria Ferran Ferrer , an academic in Information and Communication Science Studies, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalunya). Núria has been involved in research projects related to cultural heritage ...
  6 days ago

• Announcing Nov. 11 Blended Librarians Webcast: Digital Literacy, Digital Storytelling

  
  Beyond the Job — Authority: 128
  Steven Bell and John Shank, co-founders of the Blended Librarians Online Learning Community and their guests, Ellysa Stern Cahoy and  Anu Vedantham , invite you to join them for the live webcast, “ Digital Literacy, Digital Storytelling and The Role of The Academic Librarian ” which will take place on ...
  6 days ago

• Transliteracy: Do you have it?

  
  Literacy is Priceless — Authority: 410
  Thanks to tools like the WordPress analytics tool, Google Analytics and HootSuite I can gauge how many people visit my blog , website and Twitter feed , which sites refer the most readers, most popular posts, etc. When it comes to referrals, I am eternally grateful to sites like  Web English Teacher , ...
  1 week ago

• Most interesting Wikipedia articles

  
  The Hot Strudel — Authority: 134
  Ich bin gestern durch Zufall über diesen Blog-Post gestolpert: The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia . Deep in the bowels of the internet, I came across an exhaustive list of interesting Wikipedia articles by Ray Cadaster. It’s brilliant reading when you’re bored, so I got his permission to post the ...
  1 week ago

• The Sad State Of Our Educational System

  
  @ the Library — Authority: 110
  There have been many more clueless professors coming in as of late for “special help.” Recently I discovered that Goliath is a certified math teacher. Heaven help us all for Goliath can barely form coherent sentences let alone use a sophisticated piece of technology like a computer. He knows the basics now that I ...
  1 week ago

• Coverage of Information Literacy Awareness Month

  
  Information Literacy Weblog — Authority: 124
  One of my students used a recent article as the subject for a review they submit (so thank you, Akanksha) and it is one of a number that shows that US librarians are taking advantage of US Information Literacy Awareness Month to get in the press. This article is Small, R.V. and Arnone, M.P. (2009) Information ...
  1 week ago

• Cass R. Sunstein and political rumors on the Internet : The New Yorker

  
  Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check — Authority: 443
  Excerpt from a review of a timely new book: Sunstein begins with the relatively uncontroversial premise that a vigorous exchange of information is critical to the democratic process. As he acknowledges, the Web makes virtually unlimited amounts of information available; it is now possible to sit in a coffee ...
  1 week ago

• [RE]Boot Camp: Share Some. Learn More. Teach Better.

  
  In the Library with the Lead Pipe — Authority: 395
  Wordle cloud of participants’ goals Setting the Stage Last fall, as a part of the Texas Library Association’s “ Transforming ” initiative, my library held its own transforming retreat. Austin Community College (ACC) Library Services has gone through a hiring spurt recently, adding 10 new full time ...
  2 weeks ago

• Spammers Continue to Abuse the Names of Top Government Executives by Misusing the Name of the United States Attorney General

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 648
  Spammers Continue to Abuse the Names of Top Government Executives by Misusing the Name of the United States Attorney General As with previous spam attacks, which have included the names of high-ranking FBI executives and names of various government agencies, a new version misuses the name of the United States ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Research Findings: Students and the Mobile Internet

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 648
  Some new research from the U.K. From the Summary: The qualitative research with second year undergraduate students from a range of disciplines and universities, consisted of four focus groups and eight depth interviews, held in Manchester and London. The research was conducted by FDS International on behalf of ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Attention Economy

  
  The Hot Strudel — Authority: 134
  Das hier ist eine recht lesenswerte Lektüre: The Attention Economy of Social Media . Social behaviors are shaped and informed by design, but not explained by design. The obvious reason that none of us can see each other’s twitter usage (groups, or subsets of followers actually viewed and paid attention to) is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Separating “truth from fiction and signal from noise” at our libraries

  
  Friends of Seattle Public Library Blog — Authority: 469
  October is National Information Literacy Awareness Month . President Obama outlined the meaning of Information Literacy in his recent proclamation, “Rather than merely possessing data, we must also learn the skills necessary to acquire, collate, and evaluate information for any situation. This new type of ...
  2 weeks ago

• How to quality manage your creative process

  
  The Hot Strudel — Authority: 134
  Ein schöner, kurzer Blog-Post darüber wie man sich das (Berufs-) Leben einfacher machen kann: The 10% Myth and How to Put Your Creative Process on Autopilot If I learn and use a technique or process, I write about it and when necessary turn it into a set of tools that support the process. I record the steps in ...
  2 weeks ago

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