Information Literacy Weblog

I have just been given the web address of the CAVAL page with the presentations from the CRIG seminar held last Wednesday (23rd) in Melbourn...

The 2006 LOEX Conference , Moving Targets: Understanding Our Changing Landscape , will be held May 5-6 2006 at the University of Maryland, C...

The main reason that Bill Johnston and I have come over to Australia was to deliver half a day on the CRIG annual seminar in Melbourne. CRIG...

The November 2005 issue of the ALIA (Australian Library and Information Association) information literacy forum newsletter is available at h...

A little bit more about the seminar which Bill and I held yesterday in Melbourne, Australia. There were 13 delegates (see some of them on th...

Call for papers - LILAC 2006 Deadline for proposals: 30th November 2005. LILAC 2006 Conference themes * Embedding and enriching * Informatio...

Today Bill Johnston and I have been giving a workshop about mindmapping, creativity and information literacy for CAVAL ( http://www.caval.ed...

There is a special issue of Health Information and Libraries Journal (2005 vol. 22 issue s2) edited by my colleague Phil Levy, focusing on ...

I am leading a team that has been awarded a Review of Research Literature project. It will be undertaken January-June 2006 with funding from...

The biennial LOEX-of-the-West Conference , Information Literacy for a Lifetime , will be held June 8-10, 2006, in Fairmont Orchard, Hawaii....

The Alexandria proclamation on information literacy and lifelong learning has just been produced. This will be promulgated by UNESCO, inclu...

Stuart Boon , who was working full time on our Arts and Humanities Research Council- funded project "UK academics' conceptions of, ...

The IFLA Section of School Libraries and Resource Centres is calling for proposals for papers and posters for the Section's Open Session...

This year's Augustana Information Literacy in Academic Libraries Workshop speaker will be Judy Peacock (Information Literacy Coordinato...

The Information Literacy Group of CILIP is sponsoring one free place at the Librarians' Information Literacy Annual Conference - LILAC 2...

More on blogging ... the Blog Business Summit (about business blogging) took place about 10 days ago. It is a commercial operation but it h...

Two wikis concerned with education and libraries have emerged recently. Wikis are designed so that anyone can edit and create content in the...

I was having a look at Xanga ( http://www.xanga.com/ ) , a blogging tool. To get a feel for the blogs there, I searched Xanga on Informati...

For some harmless time wasting (or is time wasting never harmless?) try Googlefight at http://www.googlefight.com/ You type in two words o...

There's a nice presentation by Frances Jacobson Harris called What's a Blog Doing In My Library? which goes through some basics of ...