ACRL Discussion Forum from ALA Mid-Winter

ACRL’s IS Research & Scholarship Committee is is providing the content of its Midwinter 2008 Discussion Forum, "Research Into Action: Leveraging Research Into IL Instruction" on the IS website.

An audio recording of the session is available for download or streaming at www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/is/conferencesacrl/discussionforums.cfm#2008. You can also download a PDF of the forum's Recommended Reading List from this URL.

Call for Case Study Proposals - Cases'n'Places: Global Cases in Educational Technology

"Cases'n'Places: Global Cases in Educational Technology" - is the second in the series "Educational Design and Technology in the Knowledge Society" to be published by Information Age Publishing (www.infoagepub.com/). It will bring together a wide range of scenarios in the educational technology discipline, including:

• E-learning and Multimedia development
• Needs assessment/analysis
• Instructional Design/Instructional Technology
• Instructional Development and Implementation
• Evaluation
• Project management
• Human Performance Technology

There will be two components for each case study:

• A chapter, comprising a description of the case: 2500-4500 words
• A supporting Instructor Guide: 1000-2000 words

Format for each submitted proposal:

Editor contact details:

Information Literacy Logo Contest

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), International Federation of Library Associations, and Institutions (IFLA) and its Information Literacy Section (InfoLit), are sponsoring a contest for an international logo to identify information literacy work. The aim of creating the logo is to make communication easier between those who carry out information literacy projects, their communities, and society in general. The logo will be available free of charge and promoted as an international symbol of information literacy.

The logo effort is being funded by UNESCO and IFLA and there is a $3000 (US) prize for the winning design.

Check the guidelines of the international logo contest at www.infolitglobal.info. (Click the orange square).

For further information contact:

Jesus Lau / Logo Committee Chair
UNESCO Liaison - Information Literacy Section, IFLA, UV, Veracruz, Mexico
jlau@uv.mx

Linda Goff / Secretary - Logo Committee
California State University, Sacramento, CA.
ljgoff@csus.edu

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