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So it is global: A brand-new state-of-the-art high school library will open without its teacher-librarian. The West Australian states, “…the number of teacher librarians employed by the Education Department has dropped from ...

The College for Creative Studies, the excellent art and design school in Detroit, has launched one of the smartest ad campaigns I've seen this year.

One of my professional and library program goals for 2011-12 was to further explore definitions, best practices, assessment,  and applications of digital composition to build on my initial efforts...

"The leaks from the upcoming Steve Jobs biography are turning from drips into a downpour. The New York Times has revealed an interesting new tidbit about some of Jobs’ unfinished projects and ideas. He apparently wanted to transform the education textbook industry. While details are not yet known about what exactly he wanted to do, let’s hope he shared more information with others at Apple."

"This is a continuation of last week’s 20 iPad Apps Librarians Should Download – Part 1 post where I covered apps in the areas of News and Reference & Education. Here are the remaining 9 apps that I would recommend for the iPad that fall into the categories of e-Book Readers, Productivity Tools and Social Tools. I think each of these offers functionality that would be of interest to librarians."

"Recent news that South Korea plans to digitize its entire elementary- and secondary-school curriculum by 2015, combined with the declining cost of e-readers and Amazon's announcement earlier this year that it is selling more e-books than print books, prompts an interesting question: Which traditional campus will be the first to go entirely bookless?"

"It's surprising how many academics who identify with the digital humanities also have ties to "the History of the Book," a field that has long been nurtured by seminars in great libraries."

"Throughout history libraries have been highly effective as what we might call idea storehouses. Universities and schools have been highly effective as idea communicators. But, particularly at a time when many are questioning the relevance of libraries (thinking in terms of the ‘storehouse’ model), might we develop libraries further as idea factories? The place you go to generate ideas in the first place?"

Earlier this week, members of ALSC (ALA’s Association for Library Service to Children) announced the redesign of the Great Web Sites for Kids site via the #alscgws hashtag.

Joyce Valenza thinking the 2011 and looking  into the 2012! Topics include:

Curation!

Learning Commons/iCentre/Libratory/Kitchen
Creative Commons
Scaling open educational resources
YA Lit as fan culture and serious genre
Free, really, really good, professional development
Mobility of Program
What to do about ebooks 

via @activelearning

Public Lecture at UC Davis, October 25, 2011 broadcasted on #ds106radio by @noiseprofessor gforsythe.ca/2011/10/26/open-education/...

"Confusion about the nature of the so-called information age has led to a state of collective false consciousness. It's no one's fault but everyone's problem, because in trying to get our bearings in cyberspace, we often get things wrong, and the misconceptions spread so rapidly that they go unchallenged. Taken together, they constitute a font of proverbial nonwisdom."

"How we view effective elearning is somewhat subjective. For some it requires that all elearning center on performance. If it’s not, then how can it be effective? However, many elearning courses are less “learning” and more marketing. They’re about sharing information using elearning tools."

"Although school should prepare students for success in today’s careers, in many classrooms students are being prepared for yesterday’s job search. If they’re lucky, their school may take a break from test-prep and help students create a paper-based, one dimensional resume, but for many jobs that is an outdated form of displaying accomplishments and does nothing to set students apart from the rest..."

Lab42 surveyed 500 Americans who were registered LinkedIn users to discover how they utilized their profile and to see if they valued LinkedIn as a professional networking tool.

"Textbooks are a multi-billion dollar industry -- an estimated $3.5 billion for the K-12 market alone. But the growing availability of digital content and open educational resources (OER) is giving schools the opportunity to bypass some of the traditional expenses of textbook purchasing. It's also giving teachers the opportunities to build their own textbooks."