IL month campaign

There is a campaign on in the USA to get October 15 - November 15 declared National Information Literacy Month . Perhaps something that should be copied elsewhere? Coincindentally, we we decided yesterday that we were going to have our Sheffield University Information Literacy week in the final week of that month, which will be a nice tie-up if the Campaign is successful. There is more information on the National Forum on Information Literacy website: http://www.infolit.org/news/campaign.html
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Library Instruction for Diverse Populations

The USA's Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)Instruction Section (IS) Instruction for Diverse Populations (IDP) Committee has announced the new versions of their Multilingual Glossary and Library Instruction for Diverse Populations Bibliography. The Glossary has "85 commonly used library terms" in English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French and Spanish. The Bibliography mostly lists articles, with full abstracts/annotations. There is a focus on groups of particular interest to the USA (e.g. African American) but also some sections of more international interest (e.g. students with disabilities). The IDP website is at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/
divs/acrl/about/sections/is/
committees/idp.cfm
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New-ish book

This was just mentioned by the author (who is Senior Reference Librarian, Princeton University Library) on the ili-l discussion list:
George, M. (2008) The Elements of Library Research: What Every Student Needs to Know. Princeton University Press. ISBN13: 978-0-691-13857
There is a description, the first chapter free ("Introduction to Research as Inquiry ") and opportunity to purchase online at http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8711.html (£10.95 in Europe, which is refreshingly cheaper than a lot of the books I list here!)

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