There is a lot of material published about a recent project which proposes a "Curriculum for information literacy". She worked there with Emma Coonan, Research Skills and Development Librarian at Cambridge University. The project reports are linked from: [link]. from the Executive summary). Brief overview of New Curriculum for IL. MORE >>

I loved Barbara Fister’s recent post, “Breaking News: Academic Journals are Really Expensive!&# , about faculty who seem surprised that journals cost the library a lot. Kind of amazing to think that these are people who produce and review content for these journals. Beyond telling our faculty time and again (for DECADES!) Abs subscriptions). MORE >>

How much value do you get from the web? lot more than you pay for it. We may quibble about the cost of bandwidth and online services, and in some cases we should, but the reality is the value we get from connectivity and web-based services is massive. The key findings are shown below. Source : McKinsey. 140bn) of “consumer surplus&#. MORE >>

Tweet High tolerance for ambiguity is becoming an important leadership trait in increasingly complex, networked environments, explains Riita Raesmaa in  Systems Intelligence, Serendipity and Listening for the Better Decisions. Systems intelligence, abbreviated SI, is intelligent behavior in complex systems, that are often human in nature. MORE >>

Several factors are making us shift more toward going paperless : the need to be mobile and location-independent, greater speed and convenience, an increased awareness for going green, not to mention our need for pinching pennies in today’s economic climate. Penultimate: Your iPad notepad. Price: $1.99. SignMyPad: Simple contract sign-offs. numbers. MORE >>