High profile plagiarism example

"German Defence Minister Guttenberg resigns over thesis": the headline says it all. My colleague Professor Peter Willett is going to be using this example with our Masters level research methods class, to show that plagiarism can be a time bomb even if you don't get detected at the time!
BBC. (2011) "German Defence Minister Guttenberg resigns over thesis." BBC News. 1st March http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12608083

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Latest issue of Reference Services Review

Volume 39, Issue 1, 2011 of Reference Services Review (priced journal, abstracts here: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=0090-7324) includes:
- Information is social: information literacy in context by Jennifer Hoyer (pp. 10 - 23)
- Formative assessment: transforming information literacy instruction by Michelle Kathleen Dunaway, Michael Teague Orblych (pp. 24 - 41)
- I've lost my identity – oh, there it is … in a style manual: Teaching citation styles and academic honesty by Sarah Park, Lori A. Mardis, Connie Jo Ury (pp. 42 - 57)
- When coming to campus is not an option: using web conferencing to deliver library instruction by Anne C. Barnhart, Andrea G. Stanfield (pp. 58 - 65)
- Inside the iPod, outside the classroom by Susan Mikkelsen, Sara Davidson (pp. 66 - 80)
- “I can't find anything”: Towards establishing a continuum in curriculum-integrated library instruction by Brook Stowe (pp. 81 - 97)
- Assessing the reliability and validity of locally developed information literacy test items by Yvonne Mery, Jill Newby, Ke Peng (pp. 98 - 122)
- The librarian's role in combating plagiarism by Nancy Snyder Gibson, Christina Chester-Fangman (pp. 132 - 150)
- Expanding the reference vocabulary: A methodology for applying Bloom's taxonomy to increase instruction in the reference interview by David Ward (pp. 167 - 180)
Photo by Sheila Webber: Guardians at the window (the chihuahua was bouncing up and down barking, the lab looked more relaxed), Glasgow, February 2011

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Call for info on school information literacy assessment

Helen Boelens has put out a request "for information about or links to information literacy assessment tools which have been developed by librarians, school leaders or teachers to assess the information literacy of pupils in primary, secondary or upper secondary schools. Documents in English and other languages would be useful. A group from ENSIL (European Network for School Libraries and Information Literacy) and the SLO (Foundation for Curriculum Development) in the Netherlands are working on the development of an assessment and would like to review the efforts which have been made by other colleagues. Also any information or links to assessment tools which can be used to judge the information literacy skills of teachers would be appreciated." Contact her at hboelens@ensil.org
Photo by Sheila Webber: students election placard, February 2011

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