Infolink Librarians

"Inside Teaching is the online journal for today's highly qualified, proficient and reputable teaching professional. Written by educators for educators, it offers critical research findings, new ideas and hands-on practical application.

Brilliant list of resources

As the web becomes more and more inundated with blogs, videos, tweets, status updates, news, articles, and countless other forms of content, "information overload" is something we all seem to suffer. It is becoming more difficult to weed through all the "stuff" out there and pluck out the best, most share-worthy tidbits of information, especially if your topic is niche.  Let's face it, Google definitely has its shortcomings when it comes to content curation and the more it tries to cater to all audiences, the less useful it becomes.

A great example of an author engaging with his readers through workshops and making books available chapter for chapter online!!

"The first ever Horizon Report for the K12 sector describes the continuing work of the NMC's Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies that will likely have a significant impact on K-12 education. "

"If current population and consumption trends continue, Africa's Ecological Footprint will exceed its biocapacity within the next twenty years, while a number of countries, including Senegal, Kenya and Tanzania, are set to reach that threshold in less than five years, according to a report issued today by Global Footprint Network and key partners. "

"Welcome to Planet eBook, the home of free classic literature. All our novels and books are entirely free for you to download and share with your friends, classmates, students, anyone! Scroll down the page to see the full list of free eBooks. "

"Science Books Online lists free science e-books, textbooks, lecture notes, monographs, and other science related documents. All texts are available for free reading online, or for downloading in various formats. Select your favorite categories from the menu on the left, or browse the list of recently added books below."

Read more than 26520 books online for free...

Local library blog

Kontax is a story on your cellphone. It's also a social network of readers. Every day you'll get a new chapter. Read the story, meet the characters, vote, leave comments and write your idea for a sequel. Win prizes for the best comments and ideas.

Thanx Andrew 4 this one

"As information professionals, we live in very interesting times. Effective search and discovery over open and hidden digital resources on the Internet remains a problematic and challenging task. The difficulties are exacerbated by today's greatly distributed scholarly information landscape. This distributed information environment is populated by silos of: full-text repositories maintained by commercial and professional society publishers; preprint servers and Open Archive Initiative (OAI) provider sites; specialized Abstracting and Indexing (A & I) services; publisher and vendor vertical portals; local, regional, and national online catalogs; Web search and metasearch engines; local e-resource registries and digital content databases; campus institutional repository systems; and learning management systems."

The Center for Social Media is proud to announce the upcoming release of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education

Great powerpoint from Sandy on how to evaluate websites for learners

A great list

Have a great article by joy Valenza on libraries