New academic project shows that users trust librarians when it comes to evaluating information. In their opinion, librarians have better credibility then Google.
A Pew Internet survey explores how people approach the search for information. What are the implications for librarians tasked with improving digital and information literacy?
Wiki is for anyone in education including teachers, students, and parents. The teachers can create their wiki pages and assign home work to the students, create discussions to get the students opinion. Students and teachers can add and edit the pages. It is a wonderful way to create student centered collaborative learning environment.
Librarians, in case you hadn't heard, are essential members of society -- likely to expand minds wherever they go -- and, as such, are fully worthy of hero worship (whether they're among the coolest librarians alive or just pretty cool).
Librarians hoard the wisdom of humanity. They are the keepers of all knowledge, the guardians at the temples of understanding, and devoted protectors of the sanctuary in the midst of uneducated anarchy. Plus, they are often aware of very cheap places to dine alone with books. Let us not mince words: librarians are hiding something(tm). A group of Librarians is also known as a stack.
The GLBTRT is a unit of the American Library Association. The GLBTRT was founded in 1970 as the Task Force on Gay Liberation. We are the nation's first gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender professional organization.
List of free resources for students and educators... and anyone else who's hip to learning. Includes link to FOSSWiki, list of freeware/open source ware.
I am an acupuncture patient. For more than two years, I have found relief from a chronic medical condition through an acupuncturist's skillful placement of needles. I also am an archivist. I manage a 3,500-linear-foot collection of historic manuscripts an
Shhh! This is a library! Despite the often incorrect rep of libraries being quiet places, there are dozens of songs written about them. Some are great, some are just terrible. The songs are in two categories - songs about libraries and librarians, and son
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