LIS Professional Development Blog

George Mason University's OER Metafinder

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 12:20:00 +0000

Mason OER Metafinder searches 16 leading OER repositories with a single query. Users can perform broad queries across all sources or they can search for terms in full record, title, or author(s). They can also specify a date range and narrow their searches to a specific date range.

Source: Mason OER Metafinder

Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2017

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 06:04:00 +0000

Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2017 - 25 October - 1 November, 2017
Media and Information Literacy in Critical Times: Re-imagining Ways of Learning and Information Environments

Media and information literacy (MIL) includes a set of competencies to search, critically evaluate, use and contribute information and media content wisely; knowledge of one’s rights online; understanding how to combat online hate speech and cyberbullying; understanding of the ethical issues surrounding the access and use of information; and engage with media and ICTs to promote equality, free expression, intercultural/interreligious dialogue, peace, etc. Read more about MIL

Global MIL Week also enables connections and sharing of creative projects, the latest research, new ideas, and information across countries and stakeholders involved in MIL, and in print, screen-based and digital media.

UNESCO proposes you ten ways to celebrate the Global MIL Week

About the feature conference

The feature conference of Global MIL Week 2017 is the Seventh Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue (MILID) Conference. It will be held in Jamaica under the same theme as the Global MIL Week 2017 from 24-27 October 2017, at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston.

Year of Open

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 04:11:00 +0000

The Year of Open is a global focus on open processes, systems, and tools, created through collaborative approaches, that enhance our education, businesses, governments, and organizations.

Open represents freedom, transparency, equity and participation. At its core, open is a mindset about the way we should meet collective needs and address challenges.

Source:

15 years ago

the term OER was coined
the Budapest Open Access Initiative was launched
the first Creative Commons Licenses were released

10 years ago Cape Town Open Education Declaration was written
5 years ago

the first Open Education Week took place
the first OER World Congress was held, resulting in the Paris OER Declaration

Get Involved
Get involved by actively being a part of the Year of Open. The following are simple ways to contribute.

Download and display the Year of Open banner and logo
Use and follow the hashtag #yearofopen in conversations
Host a webinar or event in your community. Share the link on our Facebook page and on Twitter using #yearofopen.
Add your events to the Year of Open Events calendar to share with others.
Keep everyone up-to-date about your involvement in Open activities on the Year of Open Facebook page.
Post an Impact Story to the Year of Open Facebook page. An Impact Story can be a video, a written document, an infographic or other piece that describes your footprint in Open.

Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2016

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 12:22:00 +0000

Source: UNESCO

The fifth annual global celebration of Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week will take place from 31 October to 5 November, 2016. The Global MIL Week 2016 highlights include the Sixth Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue (MILID) Conferenceand the First General Assembly of the Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy (GAPMIL), taking place November 2-5, 2016 in São Paulo, Brazil.

The Global MIL Week activities and conference are important opportunities for stakeholders globally, including members of GAPMIL and the International University MILID Network to meet and share the latest research, projects, new ideas and information with a diverse gathering of stakeholders involved in information and media literacy, and in print, screen-based and digital media.

Media and information literacy (MIL) includes a set of competencies to search, critically evaluate, use and contribute information and media content wisely; knowledge of one’s rights online; understanding how to combat online hate speech and cyberbullying; understanding of the ethical issues surrounding the access and use of information; and engage with media and ICTs to promote equality, free expression, intercultural/interreligious dialogue, peace, etc. (UNESCO)

Ten ways to celebrate the Global MIL Week.
Deadline for paper submission: 20 August 2016

College & Research Libraries - Open Access publication...

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 11:47:00 +0000

College & Research Libraries (C&RL) is the official scholarly research journal of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association.

The January 2016 issue of College & Research Libraries is now freely available online. Visit the C&RL website for complete contents from 1939 to the present.

Open Education and Libraries - ACRL White Paper

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 05:13:00 +0000

http://www.openeducationweek.org/

Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its purpose is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide.

Libraries can and should support open education. But before libraries do so, it is useful to understand the open education movement as a whole, including some of the key challenges facing both OERs and MOOCs and how libraries are well positioned to help address these challenges.

ACRL White Paper "Environmental Scan of OERs, MOOCs, and Libraries: What Effectiveness and Sustainability Means for Libraries’ Impact on Open Education" enables us understand the open education movement and our professional obligation to promote universal, affordable, quality education.

Click here to download Open Education banners and PowerPoint templates and promote the event at your institution and site.

Library 2.013 Recordings

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Sun, 15 Dec 2013 14:46:00 +0000

Source: Library 2.013

Library 2.013 virtual conference recordings on the following strands are available here.

STRAND 1: Digital Services, Preservation, and Access
STRAND 2: Emerging Technologies and Trends
STRAND 3: Learning Commons (for school libraries and/or academic libraries)
STRAND 4: Management of Libraries and Information Centers in the 21st Century
STRAND 5: User Centered Services and Models
STRAND 6: Library and Information Professionals – Evolving Roles and Opportunities
STRAND 7: Doctoral Student Research
STRAND 8: Library and Information Center “Tours”

UNESCO launched Assessment Framework for Media and Information Literacy

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Sun, 15 Dec 2013 14:28:00 +0000

UNESCO has launched its Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Assessment Framework for the evaluation of countries’ readiness to create an enabling environment for MIL. The publication also aims to assess citizens’ competencies on MIL, particularly targeting teachers in service and training.

Source: UNESCO

"MIL is defined as a set of competencies that empowers citizens to access, retrieve, understand, evaluate and use, create, as well as share information and media content in all formats, using various tools, in a critical, ethical and effective way, in order to participate and engage in personal, professional and societal activities".

UNESCO advocates that MIL be one of the preconditions of sustainable development and that literate use of information, media and ICT tools, including the Internet, will help to ensure that everyone enjoys the full benefits of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, particularly freedom of expression and access to information.

Read Full article.

MOOCs & Librarians - Slides - ACRL Virtual World Interest Group - February 17 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:19:00 +0000

The Association of College and Research Librarians Virtual World Interest Group held a panel discussion on MOOCs and the impact on libraries, higher education, and information literacy.

MOOCs and Librarians from Valibrarian Hill

PanelistsValerie Hill, PhD - (Valibrarian Gregg in SL) LISD Library Media Specialist, Adjunct Instructor, TWU School of Library and Information Studies
Ilene- Frank, MLS (Ilene Pratt in SL) Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Maryland University College
Michelle Keba, MS in Information Science- (librarianatadistance in SL) Distance and Instructional Services Librarian, Nova Southeastern University
George Djorgovski, (Curious George in SL) Professor of Astonomy, Caltech

Understanding Open Licensing – Free online workshop - 19th to 22nd February, 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:41:00 +0000

Understanding Open Licensing workshop (organized by the Institute of Development Studies Knowledge Services) will equip participants to use open licensing with confidence when they make knowledge available on the Internet, and to understand the key issues for reusing open licensed materials published by others.

It will provide a simple “how-to” guide to the Creative Commons licensing framework, the international standard which sets out allowable uses of knowledge published free on the web. Participants will learn how to publish using open licences, what to consider when re-using open licensed materials, and how to advise other knowledge producers.

The workshop will include the facility for participants to post questions and to receive facilitator replies via the website and / or by email.

Who should attend?

This event will be important for researchers, communications specialists, publishers, librarians, website editors, and information service managers. Individuals with a range of levels of knowledge of intellectual property law are welcome.

Please note - Participants are not expected to actively engage for the duration of each day of the event. You are welcome to join in at specific points when it is most interesting / convenient for you.

Facilitator

Shihaam Shaikh is an Intellectual Property Lawyer, OpenUCT Project Manager, and PhD Law Student, and is based in South Africa

She is interested in the promotion of Creative Commons as an alternative management solution for copyright holders and the advocacy of using Creative Commons licensed materials by educators in the creation of teaching and learning materials.

Register here...

American Association of School Librarians: Personal Learning Network Discussion

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:38:00 +0000

Source: http://www.ala.org/aasl

Lisa Perez, library coordinator for Chicago Public Schools, discusses the five reasons why school librarians need a robust personal learning network.

Interesting to learn how to:

broaden professional perspective.
be informed about professional and technological developments.
seek help from fellow professionals for supporting student's learning needs.
collaborate with peers to enable students connect with other students around literature and research activities.
share news about upcoming virtual events.

JISC & British Library Report - Researchers of Tomorrow: The research behaviour of Generation Y doctoral students

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 04:46:00 +0000

Researchers of Tomorrow is the UK’s largest study to date on the research behaviour of Generation Y doctoral students (born between 1982 and 1994). JISC and the British Library jointly commissioned the three year study in 2009, which involved 17,000 doctoral students from 70 universities at various stages in the project.

The research findings reveal:

Doctoral students are increasingly reliant on secondary research resources (eg journal articles, books), moving away from primary materials (eg primary archival material and large datasets).
Access to relevant resources is a major constraint for doctoral students’ progress. Authentication access and licence limitations to subscription-based resources, such as e-journals, are particularly problematic.
Open access and copyright appear to be a source of confusion for Generation Y doctoral students, rather than encouraging innovation and collaborative research.
This generation of doctoral students operate in an environment where their research behaviour does not use the full potential of innovative technology.
Doctoral students are insufficiently trained or informed to be able to fully embrace the latest opportunities in the digital information environment.

These findings raise important questions about research development, training and support within research led organisations and the openness and sharing of research.
Click here to download the report...
Source: JISC

Webinar - Google in the Library Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 11AM ET

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:43:00 +0000

Source: http://ains.com

Participate in the Webinar Google Apps in the Library on Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 11AM ET to explore how Google can impact your school library program - from Google Apps to Google Scholar. Find ways to search smarter, think harder, teach better, be more productive, and embed a plethora of 21st century learning skills into your library program, and its administration.

Register here: http://www.edweb.net/.59a63934/ to attend the webinar

Presenter, Michelle Luhtala
Head Librarian, New Canaan High School
Winner, 2011 "I Love My Librarian" Award
Winner, 2010 National School Library Program of the Year (NSLPY)
Winner, Connecticut Library Association's 2010 Outstanding Librarian Award

23 Things for Professional Development

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:04:00 +0000

Source: http://cpd23.blogspot.co.uk

Due to popular demand, the 23 Things for Professional Development programme is going to repeat, at a slightly slower pace, starting on Monday 7th May. Registration is now open on the blog!

Sign up for cpd23 2012!

Access by Touch: Delivering Library Services Through Mobile Technologies- June 8, 2012 (Online)

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:22:00 +0000

Source:http://www.amigos.org/mobile_tech

From computers to the Internet, libraries have successfully met the challenge of adapting their services to changing technologies. Today's challenge is delivering services to smartphones, eBook readers, and tablets to users on the go who now view more content on mobile devices than desktop and laptop computers. CDs and DVDs are becoming passé, eBook sales outpace paper books, and users increasingly download music, movies, and books from iTunes and Kindle, storing their purchases in the Cloud.

This online conference will address the technical issues related to pushing library content and services to mobile users. Topics to be addressed include selecting and creating eBooks, building mobile-friendly websites, selecting and developing apps for library users, and circulating library materials through mobile devices. Our list of speakers includes librarians, academics, and business trendsetters. Amigos members and nonmembers, join our online conversation and be a part of this informative, interactive June 8 event.

Click here for further details...

80 Educational Alternatives to YouTube

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:16:00 +0000

Are there any alternatives when students can not access YouTube in school or classroom? Here are eighty alternatives to YouTube we can use for our students.

Mobile information literacy

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:41:00 +0000

Source: http://crln.acrl.org

Mobile information literacy Let’s use an app for that! published on College & Research Libraries News discusses how to embed mobile information literacy skills into our standard instruction classes.
The authors also share the various techniques they piloted and currently employing at Lehman College.

Attractive Discounts on Moodle books

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:48:00 +0000

Acquiring Moodle skills enable us (LIS practitioners) to embed library resources and service components in Moodle courses, in addition to collaborating with the faculty for promoting Information Literacy skills among the students.

Moodle skills enabled me to research on "How to embed a librarian, library resources and service components in Moodle!".

Here is an opportunity to grab a series of attractive discounts on all Moodle books offered by Packt Publishing.

Information Literacy in the Wild

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:30:00 +0000

Source:http://www.smashwords.com/

Here is an e-book "Information Literacy in the Wild" by Kristin Fontichiaro. This e-book published by the University of Michigan Library is a compilation of essays reflecting the field experiences in museums, public libraries, K-12 classrooms, K-12 libraries, college classrooms (online and face-to-face) etc.

We can download this free e-book in different formats:

Online Reading (HTML, good for sampling in web browser)
Kindle
Epub (Apple iPad/iBooks, Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo, and most e-reading apps including Stanza, Aldiko, Adobe Digital Editions, others)
PDF

Open content licensing for educators workshop

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:02:00 +0000

Source: OER Foundation

Here is an opportunity for LIS professionals and library instructors to learn about licensing, copyright and creative commons. Open content licensing for educators (#OCL4Ed) is a free online workshop designed for educators who want to learn more about open education resources (OER), copyright, and creative commons licenses.

Creative Commons, the OER Foundation and Ako Aotearoa announce an international professional development opportunity for all educators.

What: Open content licensing for educators workshop (#OCL4Ed)

Where: Online

When: 23 -27 January 2012

Cost: Free

Registration: Open (register today)

Facilitators:

Cable Green, Director Global Learning, Creative Commons
Jane Hornibrook , Public Lead, Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand
Wayne Mackintosh, Director, OER Foundation.

The course materials were developed as a collaborative project by volunteers from the OER Foundation, WikiEducator, the OpenCourseWare Consortium and Creative Commons with funding support from UNESCO. The course will provide prerequisite knowledge required by educators to legally remix open education materials and help institutions to take informed decisions about open content licenses.

Visit: http://wikieducator.org/Open_content_licensing_for_educators/About

Infographic: Get More Out Of Google

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:41:00 +0000

Another useful resource for teaching Information Literacy. Infographic (poster) on efficient and effective Googling, with tips and tricks is meant for students conducting online research.

Created by: HackCollege

CILIP Programme - Teaching information literacy in HE: what, where and how?

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:49:00 +0000

Source: http://www.cilip.org.uk

Information Literacy work is growing exponentially across higher education. Librarians are working to engage as many students as possible, producing materials/tutorials for the digital environment as well as devising face-to-face activities. What is likely to make Information Literacy 'teaching' most interesting and effective? What different approaches are possible? CILIP programme on Teaching Information Literacy in Higher Education will address the issues and practicalities associated with designing effective IL activities/sessions.

"Teaching information literacy in HE: what, where and how?" programme will be of interest to HE institutions with library staff who teach information literacy to groups and/or write IL on-line resources, or want to review and adapt their existing practice.

This programme provides participants with an opportunity to:

review what aspects of information literacy they currently teach and how they teach them; share ideas and examples with colleagues;
begin to adapt their teaching sessions/ materials using current ideas from international research and practice.

By the end of the programme participants will have:

considered the elements which comprise information literacy for the 21st Century;
shared ideas about the contexts in which IL is taught most productively (e.g. on-line? Disciplinary context? );
reviewed the design and scope of learning outcomes;
considered a range of teaching strategies and activities ((face-to-face and on-line) that can be used to promote student learning;
adapted or planned an IL session/activity for on-line or face-to-face use.

For further details, click here...

Recording – How to Embed A Librarian, Library Resources and Service Components in Moodle!

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:41:00 +0000

Here is the recording of my Library 2.011 Virtual Conference session on "How to Embed A Librarian, Library Resources and Service Components in Moodle!" I started my presentation with ‘What’ and ‘Why’ of Embedded Librarianship. I also explained why we need to collaborate with the Moodle Administrator and Instructors. Coming to ‘How’ to embed library resources and services components, I detailed the steps to be followed.

If you wish to embed library widgets, such as library catalogue, databases, chat and library guides using various Moodle modules and blocks, then watch my presentation here.

Google Scholar Citations Open To All

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:16:00 +0000

Source: http://scholar.google.co.in/

Google Scholar is open to all. Create your profile and explore the possibilities:

Track citations to your publications: Check who is citing your publications. Graph your citations over time. Compute citation metrics.
View publications by colleagues: Keep up with their work. See their citation metrics.
Appear in Google Scholar search results: Create a public profile that can appear in Google Scholar when someone searches for your name.

You can quickly identify which articles are yours, by selecting one or more groups of articles that are computed statistically. Then, Google Scholar collects citations to your articles, graph them over time, and compute your citation metrics - the widely used h-index; the i-10 index, which is simply the number of articles with at least ten citations; and, of course, the total number of citations to your articles. Each metric is computed over all citations and also over citations in articles published in the last five years.

Your citation metrics will update automatically as Google Scholar finds new citations to your articles on the web. You can also set up automated updates for the list of your articles, or you can choose to review the suggested updates. And you can, of course, manually update your profile by adding missing articles, fixing bibliographic errors, and merging duplicate entries.

Click here and follow the instructions to get started.

Free Library 2.011 Worldwide Virtual Conference November 2-4, 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Indira Koneru) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:51:00 +0000

Library 2.011 Worldwide Virtual Conference begins on Wednesday, November 2nd. More than 4,000 information professionals from 149 countries have signed up to join the global conversation on the current and future state of libraries. The groundbreaking event will be a whirlwind of information, with 160 presentations scheduled over two days!

The schedule of all sessions, in customized schedule pages for each of the world's 36 time zones, is now available at the Sessions and Schedule page. Presentations will cover a variety of pertinent subject strands that affect the LIS industry and the changing roles of libraries and librarians in our digital world. All sessions will also be recorded for later viewing.

Keynote addresses will be scheduled over the course of the two-day conference, and the speakers include:

Dr. Sandra Hirsh (USA)
Dr. Lennart Bjoerneborn (Denmark)
Dr. Michael Stephens (USA)
Dr. Christine Bruce (Australia)
Ms. Ellen Tise (South Africa)
Mr. Stephen Abram (Canada)

The conference welcome will start at 6:30 a.m. US-PDT on Wednesday, November 2nd, followed by the opening keynote by Library 2.011 Co-Chair Dr. Sandra Hirsh, professor and director of the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at San José State University. The conference will conclude with a final conference gathering at 9:00 p.m. US-PDT on Thursday, November 3 (November 4, in some parts of the world). All conference sessions are being held in Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate), and can be accessed live from any personal computer following instructions on the Sessions and Schedule page.

As a reminder, the conference will be held entirely online, is FREE to attend. To register for the conference, join the conference website at http://www.Library2011.com.