"Creative Commons licences explained."

"My holiday reading has been Jason Puckett's book on Zotero, " Zotero: a guide for librarians, researchers and educators". Jason is an American Academic Librarian that works with students and is an advocate for Zotero. "

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work-in the web browser itself.

"I've had an Evernote account for some time now, and really think it is one of the best organisational tools available."

"Over the past few weeks, I have been leveraging Zotero heavily in my work and general information curation. With deadlines knocking on my door I know I have to be organised. So while I make extensive use of Diigo and Delicious, as well as Evernote, when it comes to the serious academic stuff Zotero has to come up trumps."

Content curation at your fingertips - save, curate, reflect, share

See the issue for "#6 May 2012" which has a special focus on Curation. All regular issues are well worth a read.

"the new curation tools present an exciting new genre of search tool, a tool for scanning the real-time environment, as well as opportunities for evaluating quality and relevance in emerging information landscapes."

"A primary school teacher sharing resources, practical ideas and thoughts on blogging, global collaboration and technology integration."

A not-to-be missed resource from Joyce Valenza.

We have created this site to provide a visually rich and interactive online experience for telling cultural stories in new ways. Discover exhibits by expert curators, find artifacts, view photographs, read original manuscripts, watch videos, and more.

The goal of Maker Librarian is to serve as the primary resource for librarians who want to learn about makers, hackerspaces, the participatory library and everything in between. Over the coming weeks and months you'll find; Daily updates on the latest technologies, maker news and what librarians and libraries are up to Interviews with the movers and shakers in the maker and hacker movement Discussion of the difficult ethical and legal issues that libraries will have to face as technologies, like 3D printers, become readily available A wiki for librarians to gather the best of training materials and classes for their programs

The purpose of this Words Toolkit is to help you expand your vocabulary and improve your expression. Convey ideas clearly and fully, and use logic, creativity and imagination in a powerful way with well-chosen words. You may write in detail or in a concise fashion. Who is your audience? Choose words that be understood by your intended readers.

"Google Docs is such an incredible tool for college students, offering collaboration, portability, ease of use, and widespread acceptance. But there are so many options, both hidden and obvious, that there's a good chance you're not using Google Docs to its fullest capability."

" "We are excited to be able to provide this resource to schools across New York State, and believe it is the most accurate tool available for evaluating school librarians," stated NYLA Executive Director Jeremy Johannesen. The "School Librarian Evaluation Rubric" can be found online on the SED website at: http://usny.nysed.gov/rttt/teachers-leaders/practicerubrics/Docs/nyla-rubric.pdf The new evaluation instrument is aligned with Charlotte Danielson's Enhancing Professional Practice, the NYS School Library Program Evaluation Rubric tool, and goals of the Common Core Standards to increase rigor, relevance, and college and career readiness."