Logo contest

The competition to design an Information Literacy logo is still on - with a $3,000 Dollars prize! You need to design a logo for information literacy work for use by UNESCO, IFLA and anyone else who wants to use it. The deadline is May 15 2008. The guidelines of the international logo contest are at http://www.infolitglobal.info/ (Click the orange square).
Photo by Sheila Webber: Pearse station, Dublin, February 2008.

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IL in schools book

A new book is: Dubber, G. (2008) Cultivating Curiosity: Information Literacy Skills and the Primary School Library. School Library Association. ISBN 9781903446423. £7.50 or £6 to members of the UK's School Library Association. "This updated and revised Guideline, taking account of the 2007 Government literacy teaching objectives, explains the importance of embedding information literacy into a whole school, ICT and curriculum context. It outlines and explains the processes of research for young children and shows ways that teachers and librarians can develop and promote information literacy and related ICT skills through the primary school library and link it to classroom practice. It also includes a very useful and practical case study, some templates and a reading list." It can be purchased from http://www.sla.org.uk/sla-guidelines.php
Photo by Sheila webber: Martello Tower housing James Joyce museum, Sandycove, Ireland, February 2008.

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Libraries and mega sites

If you have 78 euros to spare then you can buy a new report Libraries & the Mega-Internet Sites just published by Primary Research Group. The market survey was of 120 libraries (mostly in teh USA), academic, special and public libraries about how they use and relate to the mega-internet sites such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, MySpace, eBay, Amazon, and others. ... This report provides hard data on exactly how libraries are dealing with the emerging internet giants, how they are adopting, negotiating, repelling, embracing and in every way developing strategies to provide the best possible information services to their clientele." It has chapters such as "The Library and EBay" and "Google Productivity Tools". You can order it from http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c81473
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