Caroline Lilyard

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• Posted The National Writing Project to Learning in the Libraries
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• Posted Tuning to Learning in the Libraries
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• Posted Millennium Development Goals and Information Literacy to Learning in the Libraries
  UNESCO's Information for All Programme (IFAP) has published a  paper providing a basic conceptual framework for measuring information literacy. Entitled Towards information literacy indicators, the publication includes a definition of information literacy; a model that links information literacy with other...
• Posted Information Literacy as a Human Right to Learning in the Libraries
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• Commented on Confessions of a Science Librarian
  You make a good point, Jan. My read on it was that the author was exploring how best to teach students to evaluate critically: If I was doing a search in a class and landed on a Food Frontiers post,...
• Commented on Confessions of a Science Librarian
  I think it could be helpful to have a collection of examples like this. I have used one in the past that was a bogus World Trade Organization site, and will try to find and post it here....
• Posted Confessions of a Science Librarian to Learning in the Libraries
  John Dupuis is the Head of the Steacie Science & Engineering Library, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada. You can reach him at jdupuis at yorku dot ca A teachable moment Category: blogging • culture of science • education • environment...
• Commented on News cast of Libraries--use in Lib Instruction for fall?
  I think this would work well in a PPT and be of interest to students next semester....
• Posted Information-Seeking Skills Test for Freshman to Learning in the Libraries
  A program at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, requires freshman to pass an Information-Seeking Skills Test (ISST) during their freshman year. They complete eight online self-instruction modules, then take the web-based test of 53 items. If they don't pass...
• Posted World Telecommunication and Information Society Day to Learning in the Libraries
  May 17th was World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, held in Shanghai China this year. From their website at http://www.itu.int/wtisd/index.html  --"The purpose of the WTISD is to help raise awareness of the possibilities of that the use of the Internet...
• Posted Teaching and Learning in 2015 to Learning in the Libraries
  Looking at the furthest Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years in the 2010 Horizon Report is a fascinating exercise in imagining how these technologies might be used in teaching and learning in 2014-15. The two that made the final cut,...