IDEO’s New Screencast

Those familiar with Immersion may already know about IDEO, a cool company that designs really neat things in innovative ways. Theres a new screencast about some of the things they are currently doing, here at 43 Folders.
Enjoy!

New LOEX Currents for Fall is Out

As always it has nice new articles, job listings, upcoming conferences and more. Check it out here.

Library Services & Pictures

The list of services we might want to highlight (as mentioned at the meeting) include:

1) Group/Study Rooms — web page exists for Study Spaces
2) Computing @ the Library — web page?? found a FAQ about computers & wireless and also a Computer Labs page, but it is not a very spiffy page & wireless info is only available on sub-pages 3) Ask a Librarian — web page for Ask-a-Librarian, this link is for tab with all libraries listed instead of the overview page
4) Course Reserves — web page for Course Reserves
5) Library Locations — web page for Libraries & Collections

Additional thoughts about services to highlight or the images that should go with them?

Reaching Out to Students When They Talk and Text

From The NYT Online

Can the Bloomberg administration convince thousands of low-achieving students that succeeding in school is actually, well, cool?

It wants to try. The city is planning an intensive campaign that would use cellphones to help motivate students, most of them minorities and from poor families, in two dozen schools. The pilot program will include mentoring and incentives for high performance, like free concerts and sporting events and free minutes and ring tones for their phones. Every student in each of the schools will be given a cellphone.

The effort, officials said, will use text messages — drawn up by an advertising agency and sent over the phones — that promote achievement.

Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein said the project was the city’s first attempt to bring about change in the culture and behavior of low-performing students after years of efforts focusing on school structure and teaching.

“How do you get people to think about achievement in communities where, for historical or other reasons, there isn’t necessarily demand for that,” Mr. Klein said yesterday in an interview. “We want to create an environment where kids know education is something you should want. Some people come to school with an enormous appetite for learning and others do not — that’s the reality.” Continue reading Reaching Out to Students When They Talk and Text…

Fall 2007 Educator’s Spotlight Digest

The free online publication of S.O.S. for Information Literacy, is now available here.

This issue’s College Connection column, “Lifelong Information Literacy in Southern California,” was written by Amy Wallace, Head of Public Services and Outreach at California State University, Channel Islands. Amy writes about collaborative information literacy initiatives of four higher education institutions in Southern California.

Other stories include:
-ACRL Focus — “Information Literacy in the Disciplines,” a web site developed and maintained by the Information Literacy in the Disciplines committee of ACRL’s Instruction Section, links to standards, guidelines and supplementary materials for integrating information literacy skills into a wide range of subjects.

Continue reading Fall 2007 Educator’s Spotlight Digest…

LOEX Final Call For Proposals

Deadline: Friday, November 16, 2007

36th Annual LOEX Conference

www.loexconference.org

May 1-3, 2008

Oak Brook, Illinois

The Illinois LOEX Committee invites you to submit proposals to be considered for presentation at the 36th Annual LOEX Conference. The 2008 conference theme, Librarian as Architect: Planning, Building & Renewing, explores the meaningful building of supportive information literacy learning environments and experiences in instruction.

Presenters are encouraged to think creatively about the theme. Proposals should provide active engagement of participants, model best practice, provide useful information, skills, or ideas or include effective and innovative practices and collaborative approaches. Successful proposals reflect elements of the six themes.
Continue reading LOEX Final Call For Proposals…

Fall ACRL IS Newsletter

Is now out and available here.