Every year during the ceremony of the International Literacy Day (8 September), UNESCO awards the International Literacy Prizes to partner organizations, institutions or individuals in recognition of their remarkable innovation and contribution in the field of literacy. UNESCO is launching the call for nominations of candidates for the 2014 edition […]
Read full post…Monthly Archive for May, 2014
This research report might be of special interest to colleagues in Sub-Saharan Africa: http://cdn.worldreader.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Project-LEAP-Baseline-Report.pdf?14eb87 Worldreader is looking for volunteers for the Vacation Reading Schools in Ghana in August: http://www.worldreader.org/blog/tag/ghana/ and https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10817491/2014%20VRS%20Invitation.pdf
Read full post…This is a Call for Innovative library projects and new scholars in developing countries. http://www.elsevier.com/social-sciences/library-and-information-science/the-elsevier-foundation-calls-for-2014-innovative-libraries-and-new-scholars-projects “The Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries program provides grants to libraries in the developing world to improve access to scientific, technical and medical information. The 2014 program priorities include measuring the overall impact of access […]
Read full post…Mary Snyder Broussard, Rachel Hickoff-Cresko, and Jessica Urick Oberlin. (2014). Snapshots of Reality: A Practical Guide to Formative Assessment in Library Instruction. Chicago: American Library Association. Through ten practical chapters, Snapshots of Reality works from the assumption that classroom-based assessment does not have to take away from invaluable instruction time, […]
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