Have you said your piece yet?
There are only 7 working days until the deadline for responses to the Information Futures Commission.
As of 6.00 pm Tuesday 29 April we had received:
four written responses from faculties and other groups
written responses from seven individuals
125 completed surveys
10 comments on the Information Futures blog
many informal emails
As well, we have run [...]
this recently published paper has much interest for considering the future role of IS in supporting eresearch in particular. The report of the ICT Group especially reflects concerns within IS.
The Expert Working Groups and the ICT Strategy Group have prepared input to a discussion paper for consultation.
http://www.ncris.dest.gov.au/NR/rdonlyres/2CE4A0D5-AEC3-458A-B0DB-F85D9F9618B0/21214/NCRISRoadmapReviewDiscussionPaper_180408.pdf
http://www.kenchadconsulting.co.uk/images/stories/lmsstudy.pdf
A major study has just been published on the Integrated Library Management System market in UK Higher Education. It was commission by the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Society of College, National and University Librarians (SCONUL)
This is a timely report, given that the Library is to review its own library systems. [...]
Henry Jenkins (MIT) and Howard Gardner (Harvard) are each leading projects investigating how to teach information literacy skills to the current generation of university students.
The New Media Literacies project at MIT takes what we might call an ‘embedded’ approach to teaching information literacy:
“How does digital copying relate to legacy notions of property? What do [...]
In talking to one of our leading academics recently about the Information Futures Commission I was lamenting the fact that feedback was only slowly trickling in. He said something that made me pause and think – his words were something like “We know this stuff is really important…it’s just that we don’t know what to [...]