America’s Most Literate Cities, 2009

America’s Most Literate Cities, 2009Drawing from a variety of available data resources, the America’s Most Literate Cities study ranks the largest cities (population 250,000 and above) in the...

It’s All Semantics: Searching for an Intuitive Internet

Newer generations of researchers not schooled in more traditional, library-based (pre-Internet) research methods are used to doing keyword searches on the Internet to discover information. “But...

U. of Illinois: Texting, Tweeting Ought to be Viewed as GR8 Teaching Tools, Scholar Says

From the Report: Carol L. Tilley, a professor of library and information science at Illinois, says that schools and libraries should consider embracing texting and tweeting as a means of engagement...

New Journal Aims to Reframe Doctor-Patient Collaborations in Health Care

From the Article: Swallow the doctor’s diagnosis whole, or spend weeks plowing through the primary research literature at a medical library—at the risk of alienating your physician. Those were...

Web 2.0 in Libraries – 2D and 3D

Thanks to Sheila Webber for providing a constant flow of information related to libraries. Her Information Literacy Weblog provides real up-to-date gems year after year – she saves me time I...