Powerpoint on "Contract Cheating"

Interesting ppt from a recent conference, The New Challenges Of Contract Cheating by Thomas Lancaster and Robert Clarke (Birmingham City University). Contract cheating is putting up details about the assignment you want written for you, and people bid to do the work. The ppt explains the process and ways in which it might be detected. http://www.bcu.ac.uk/_media/docs/ContractCheatingSIG_220612_LancasterClarkeKeynote.pdf
Photo by Sheila Webber: Millennium sculpture and pontoon outside 02 dome on the Thames, from cable car, June 2012

cfp COLIS 2013

CoLIS 8, the Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science will take place at the Royal School of Library and Information Science in Copenhagen, Denmark, August 19-22, 2013. There is a call for papers (research papers, short papers, panels, workshops, alternative events and posters) in any area of Information Science. Deadline for submissions is March 1 2013, and research paper submissions have to be the full paper. Full info at http://www.iva.dk/english/colis8/ (Unfortunately this clashes with the 2013 IFLA conference in Singapore.)
There is an associated Doctoral Forum on 18th August at Lund University, Seweden, with submissions due by April 1 2013:: details at http://www.iva.dk/english/colis8/doctoral-forum/
Photo by Sheila Webber: New cable car over the Thames, London, June 2012

Report on launch of Scottish information literacy online community of practice

There is a report from John Crawford on the workshop held to launch and promote the Scottish information literacy online community of practice (CofP), Information Skills for a 21st Century Scotland, held at the conference of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS) on Monday 11th June 2012 in Dundee at  http://scotinfolit.squarespace.com/cop-discussion/post/1865660
Video by Sheila Webber: A summer day in Sheffield, today.

Information Literacy education Scoop.it!

Anthony Beal's Scoop.it page on Information Literacy education is a useful source to monitor. It's at http://www.scoop.it/t/information-literacy-education
With Scoop.It you create a newspaper-like layout for your topic, and accept ScoopIt's suggestions or add items as you come across them, using a bookmarklet. Visitors can also suggest content (though I imagine that needs a lot of filtering if your Scoop.it becomes at all popular)
Photo by Sheila Webber: This is yesterday's photo, turned into a collage by using a free app at http://bighugelabs.com/hockney.php - being pedantic, this isn't really Hockney's technique, he tends to use a lot of photos to build up a picture, but anyway it is fun

#crai2012 conference 28-29 June

If you are a Spanish speaker, you can follow the 10th Jornadas CRAI (major annual academic library conference in Spain) using the Twitter tag #crai2012 on 28-29 June. The programme looks at results of implementing information and digital literacy (IL2)(which I hope is ok as a translation of las competencias informacionales e informáticas (CI2) in Spanish universities. The programme etc. is at http://biblioteca.unirioja.es/crai2012/

Grassian Information Literacy keynote and survey

Lots of material from Esther Grassian's keynote to the LOEX of the West conference this month (entitled Occupy Their Minds! The Politics of Information Literacy) is available. There is a link to her talk on Youtube, the powerpoint, the handout, links to various related documents and the full results of a survey she did of academic librarians, asking about assessment of information literacy, whether there were credit courses etc. https://sites.google.com/site/esthergrassian/loex-of-the-west-2012-materials
Photo by Sheila Webber: poppy, Sheffield Station, June 2012

UKLibChat on Information Literacy and Needs 6.30 pm today

Today's #UKLibChat at 6.30-8.30pm UK time (that's starting 1.30 pm US Eastern time, see http://tinyurl.com/clelqbl for times elsewhere in the world) is on Information Literacy and Needs. The chat is hosted on Twitter by @UKLibChat. Everyone is welcome to follow #UKLibChat to see the discussion and to participate. They have put up some discussion questions at http://bit.ly/PsEVYV and you can add your own questions too.
Photo by Sheila Webber: "Sheila" rose, June 2012.