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esigned to be completely intuitive, iTunes U is based on the iTunes Store, where millions of people already get their music, movies, and TV shows. Now there’s an area of the iTunes Store devoted entirely to education, where it’s easy to search thousands of audio and video files from schools across the country. Colleges and universities build their own iTunes U sites. Faculty post content they create for their classes. Students download what they need, and go. Learning isn’t just for the classroom anymore. It’s for anytime and anyplace you’ve got a Mac, a PC, or an iPod.

This annotated bibliography was commissioned to support the NSDL Evaluation Workshop (planned for October 2003) that will 1) explore the issues around evaluating the impact of digital libraries on education and that will 2) begin developing a strategy to evaluate the impact of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) on STEM education. The bibliography’s purpose, then, is to identify research to date on evaluating the impact of digital libraries on learning and teaching. It contains a Summary & Analysis section, which defines terms, makes observations about the literature, reviews the resources included, highlights issues, and suggests areas for further consideration.

For those of you unfamiliar with current on-line LIS education, most classes have a section devoted to on-line "discussion." The theory is that you are supposed to discuss, via posts, topics pertinent to the material covered in class. In reality, the boards just turn into a mass of people trying to say the smartest sounding, most cleaver thing they can possibly think of. I've rarely seen any "discussion" taking place on these boards

Now it's easy to create useful iPod projects for both students and teachers at any educational level. No special technical skills required - make an engaging learning program for iPod in no time flat! Download it now for Mac OS X or Windows and see for yourself!

In this brief overview, I hope to illustrate some of the bstrategies and practices I've encountered in review writing--from my own experiences as a reviewer, from my students' questions and comments related to reviewing, and from several eminent voices in LIS who have written about reviewing--as well as what you can expect related to processes and communication between you and JWL. Review writing is one of the clearest examples of professional service within LIS, impacting continuing education activities, collection development decisions, and, indirectly, the surface of the publishing landscape for LIS serials, monographs, and software. There are, of course, individual benefits as well, but I'll get to those shortly. The discussion below is meant to illustrate several techniques that might be useful as you prepare your first few reviews, but with respect to any specific technique, your mileage may vary; feel free to adapt these suggestions to match your personal working and writing styles.

If we believe all the hype and rhetoric then we are essentially Information & Knowledge Professionals [1]in an Information & Knowledge Society[2] with an Information & Knowledge Economy [3]during the formative years of the Information & Knowledge age[4].

This manifesto is intended to propose that we do just that; that as students, faculty and staff we transform SLIS and create the kind of utopian digital learning organization that we all supposedly advocate. Let us apply the Web 2.0, Library 2.0, social networking, knowledge management principles that we are all in training to implement in society at large. Let us engage in the manifestation of a vision we all allegedly maintain:

The American Library Association (ALA) is committed to promoting and advancing the librarian profession. To demonstrate this commitment, the ALA and its units provide more than $300,000 annually for study in a master's degree in library and information studies from an ALA accredited program, or for a master's degree in school library media program that meets the ALA curriculum guidelines for a National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) accredited unit.

NE2007 offers a full, diverse and challenging educational program, with 34 programs over the course of three days (Thursday, Oct. 18-Saturday, Oct. 20). The theme is “Libraries Without Borders”, emphasizing the internationalization of law, the globalization of legal practice, and the roles and responsibilities of librarians in the changing information environment.

SLIS faculty, Dr. Linda Main, Professor and Associate Director, Jeremy Kemp, Lecturer and SLIS Assistant Director for Second Life campus, and Dr. Lili Luo, Lecturer, were interviewed by Sheraz Sadiq, associate producer at KQED-TV, PBS San Francisco, about teaching in Second Life.