French Business School Librarians
Just stumbled on this: ACIEGE (http://www.aciege.org/): Association des responsables des Centres d’Information des Ecoles de GEstion – or the association of business schools heads of libraries. Lire la suite
Just stumbled on this: ACIEGE (http://www.aciege.org/): Association des responsables des Centres d’Information des Ecoles de GEstion – or the association of business schools heads of libraries. Lire la suite
The Canadian Association of Information Science has delivered its latest issue of its Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science (via Project Muse on behalf of UT Press, the publisher), vol. 35 issue 4. A few articles seem particularly interesting, such as: Enhancing Skills, Effecting Change: Evaluating an Intervention for Students with Below-Proficient Information Literacy […] Lire la suite
The OECD launched a 12 minute video about the PISA study, explaining how its analysts rank school systems around the world : [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugz_1Clpsdk&w=560&h=315] Lire la suite
Worth a listen, Jesse Brown’s podcast from TVO’s Search Engine where he interviews Grade 7 teacher Royan Lee on how cellphones are transforming his classroom. Lire la suite
UNESCO launched a new Open Educational Resources Platform last week. Lire la suite
The Call for papers is open for one more month for the InSITE Conference to be held at Concordia University on June 22 & 23 2012. There are 4 “tracks” for the conference, according to the conference website: Connect: Consists of workshops and panels that connect delegates with industry and business to promote the transfer […] Lire la suite
Here is a talk I missed at the Canadian Library Association’s annual conference and trade show last May (from the program, over 4 MB in PDF) : B9 – From Plagiarism to Copyright Infringement and Back Again: An Agony in Six Skits Can I copy this? The question that arises every time someone wants to use […] Lire la suite
Interesting read about cheating: Nouvelle recherche sur la probité intellectuelle – Peut-on éradiquer la tricherie chez les étudiants ? by Catherine Bolton, Mebs Kanji and Soheyla Salari in Le Devoir Oct. 24th 2011 The authors remark, about a recent study presented at the International Conference on Academic Integrity : Jusqu’à présent, les données que nous avons recueillies […] Lire la suite
Julian Treasure presented 5 ways to listen better at TED – the always entertaining and smart talks about ways to change the world. I thought it added some insight about how to provide for a better reference service : [ted id=1200] Lire la suite
This post presents the PRIMO (Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online) and the MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Teaching and Learning) projects. PRIMO Under the ALA/ACRL umbrella, one can find the PRIMO Committee of the Instruction section. Of the many things they do, they offer a database of Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online – aka the PRIMO database. […] Lire la suite