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Just as basic literacy means more than just decoding alphabetic symbols, digital literacy involves more than the mere ability to use software or operate a digital device; it includes a variety of t...

Congratulations to Joyce Valenza who has won the Edublog Award 2005 for the best library/librarian blog -- Neverending Search blog!
Check out the winners in all ten categories and while you're exp...

Everyone knows the impact Oprah's Book Club has had on reading in this country. Imagine if she can do that for high school students. Oprah is sponsoring an essay contest; it will be based on the bo...

Did you know that you can find synonyms on Google by preceding the term with a ~ which is known as the tilde or synonym operator? The tilde ~ takes the word immediately following it and searches bo...

I recently conducted a workshop on digital literacy for school librarians, teachers and administrators and in my preparation I found quite a few thought provoking articles and research which I grou...

I spent the evening in TappedIn organizing my virtual office in preparation to facilitate my monthly sessions on Web tools. Time went by so quickly. I stopped in the reception area to say hello to ...

If you need a good laugh, try reading Unshelved, "the world's only daily comic strip set in
a public library! Writer Gene Ambaum (the made-up name of a real-life
librarian) and co-writer and artist...

More good news from ICDL. In their continuing efforts to support a global community they have made the searching and reading tools available in 9 languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Filip...

Give yourself a
present today and visit the International
Children's Digital Library (ICDL). The mission of the ICDL is to select,
collect, digitize, and organize children's materials in their orig...

NPR Morning
Edition did a report on the new computer literacy test being developed by
the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Although this Web-based assessment is just being piloted and it’s not u...