There is a call from the IFLA Literacy and Reading Section and the Information Literacy Section for Papers for a programme being held at the IFLA (World Library and Information) Congress in Milan in August, 2009. The theme is Libraries Promoting Twenty-First Century Literacies, and it will explore the ways in which libraries can actively promote ...

On 5 November the next SUILCoP (Staffordshire University Information Literacy Community of Practice) Workshop features Debbi Boden (University of Worcester), with A dramatic strategy against plagiarism: developing information literacy teaching resources. It particularly focuses on online resources created at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ...

Proposals for presentations and poster sessions at the 2009 SCIL Works are are required by 24 October. The annual SCIL (Southern California Instruction Librarians) Works is a half-day event focusing on information literacy pedagogy. The theme is The Daily and the Visionary: Employing Reflective Practices to Increase Our Engagement and Success. ...

The next Gurteen Bristol Knowledge Cafe is going to be held in the multi-disciplinary Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, on Thursday 17 November, from 18:30. The cafe proper will begin at 19:00 prompt. Tim Sheppard, local storytelling group member, will be introducing the subject before we get down to the serious k-cafe business as usual. If you ...

It’s autumn in The UK; it’s time for some new sensible shoes and it’s also conference season. (tag from live tag surfing wall (work with Dan Dixon), 2gether08) Here’s where I will be for public conferences and what I will be doing at them: Making and organising knowledge in communities; Metaknowledge mashup ...

This is a write up of a presentation I gave about networking at The Knowledge and Innovation Network’s gathering in March 2008. I am suddenly inspired to write this up after enjoying Ron Donaldson’s excellent ecological explanation of web2 and Dominic Campbell’s admirable work for Barnet Council at Unicom’s social tools ...

Well, the time has finally come - on Monday I had an interview for a professional librarian post and I was successful! I’m also coming very close to completion of my Diploma (I’m going away at the end of this month and my aim is to complete my final assignment before I go) so hopefully soon [...]

The 2009 Libraries in the Digital Age conference takes place 25-30 May 2009 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. This is the last of this series to be held in beautiful Dubrovnik (I talked at LIDA a few years ago, this is a photo taken then of fish in the clear water) so it is worth going if you can! Themes are: REFLECTIONS: Changes Brought by and in Digital ...

The second Information: Interactions and Impact International (i3) Conference will take place at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland 22-25 June 2009. As before, the conference explores the interconnections between information literacy, information behaviour, and impact of information. Key note speakers in 2009 will include Dr. Chun ...

Expanding Literacy Studies is an International, Interdisciplinary Conference for graduate students, April 3-5, 2009, at Ohio State University, USA. ''Addressing the need for an expanded conversation about literacy that exceeds disciplinary boundaries, this conference is a space for graduate and professional students from all fields to ask ...