Category: Scholarship

The following showed up in my email box today – oddly enough not on any of my DE lists: Library Instruction Publications is seeking contributions for a forthcoming publication: Empowering Distance Learners with Hands-on Information Literacy Activities. Empowering Distance Learners will be a bit different from prior works published by Library Instruction Publications. It is…

Any students or new distance librarians out there interested in a free trip to Savannah next year?  Connie Hildebrand has just announced the following: The Executive Board of the Off-Campus Library Services Conference is pleased to announce that a scholarship has been initiated to help library students and new librarians attend the Off-Campus Library Services…

This may have been announced before (I suspect so, as the deadline for the CFP is January 28th), but the 4th International Conference on eLiteracy is being held in Glasgow, Scotland from June 15-17.  A couple of my colleagues presented at this conference when it was last held in Glasgow in 2003; they really enjoyed…

Hmmm, interesting information for our Canadian readers.  The most recent issue of The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning introduces us to a new initiative called CIDER, the Canadian Institute for Distance Education Research.  It appears to be a clearinghouse for, well, distance education research in Canada.  There’s pretty much nothing there…

From Volume 30, Issue 6 of The Journal of Academic Librarianship  Distance Teaching: Comparing Two Online Information Literacy Courses Pages 482-487 Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay(These links should work if your institution has Science Dirct) This article compares the author’s experience teaching a for-credit information literacy course through two different institutions.  Lots of background on the way…

Stephen Dew posted the following to the OffCamp Listserv the other day: ALA has recently announced the tentative meeting times and locations for all divisions and sections at Midwinter, and I want to let everyone know about the times and tentative locations for the meetings of the Distance Learning Section, ACRL.   They are as follows:…

The Call for Papers for the Twelfth Off-Campus Library Services Conference has just come out.  The conference runs April 26-28, 2006, so you have some time to clear your calendar, though the paper proposals are due March 22, 2005.  This time around it’ll be held in Savannah, GA (more details on the website).  From the…

A different kind of distance librarianship.  In this article from the most recent issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, three of my U of C colleagues describe projects where they inserted themselves into the faculties they support.  Rather than wait in the library for their students to come to them, they went out…