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New Book Supports Library Staff and Students to Develop in their Roles as Teachers

CILIP

New Book Supports Library Staff and Students to Develop in their Roles as Teachers. explore the current landscape of teaching librarianship in higher education, and highlight the important developments, issues and trends that are shaping current and future practice. s Handbook by Claire McGuinness. The Academic Teaching Librarian?s

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A straightforward and pragmatic guide to leadership, management and teamwork

CILIP

Contemporary managers and leaders in library and information services are working in a challenging context; dealing with multiple demands on their time, expertise and resources. This book provides a practical guide to leadership, management and teamwork in library and information services. Barbara Allan said: ?This

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What is information literacy?

CILIP

A lot has changed since 2004 when the first CILIP definition of information literacy was devised. Education ? developing critical thinking skills at all stages of education, from school to higher education. ? It empowers us as citizens to develop informed views and to engage fully with society.?

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CILIP?s third Chinese accreditation at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

CILIP

s learning provider accreditation is designed to help students choose library, information and archive career programmes that cover the essential skills and knowledge, and have been rigorously assessed. Press contact. Gemma Wood. Email: gemma.wood@cilip.org.uk. Tel: 020 7255 0500. Notes to Editors About CILIP. It is on the list of China?s

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Encouraging students to improve their IL skills

CILIP

There are circumstances in which the educator may wish to create their own subjective models, specifically to meet their instructional purposes. For example, it might provide an assessment tool for the educator or guide the teacher/librarian when planning their interventions. School Librarian, 52 (2), 2004, pp. 5 Shenton, A.K.

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Two flavors of software as a service: Intuit QuickBase and Etelos | ZDNet

Collaboration 2.0

The intent is to provide the underlying architecture to serve enterprises such as British Telecom who use the platform to make it simple for developers to consume Web Services exposed by BT, in this case their Web21C SDK set of libraries. as if it were something tangible--or at least a concept with clear, concise definition.