A couple of interesting posts from the ACRL blog, one on whether (and how) librarians should promote their status as ‘faculty’ and one about how to deal with ‘distractions‘, mobiles, IM, texting and so on in class.

Adding to your likely information overload, an article in the latest issue of Ariadne on dealing with information overload. I have many, many good intentions that I mean to follow up on to cut down my information overload. And never set aside the time to do it. But if we’re going to expand Olivia to include skills beyond those of information literacy, time management is a crucial area.

From an INFOMINE alert, a link to the Library of Congress Science Reference Guides section on Podcasts, webcasts, and other digital media files.

For anyone who’s not read the CIBER report, Information behaviour of the researcher of the future, its authors have published an article in the latest issue of Aslib Proceedings, available online at Imperial:

Rowlands, I. et al (2008) The Google generation: the information behaviour of the researcher of the future. Aslib Proceedings. 60(4), 290-310. doi:10.1108/00012530810887953

Medics may already know about this project, but I’ve just read about it in the latest RLUK/SCONUL news round up – Medpedia is to be launched this year, a project that is “an extraordinary global effort to collect, organize and make understandable, the world’s best information about health, medicine and the body and make it freely available“. It’s to be a very collaborative project, with contributions from Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley and University of Michigan, and other health organisations.

The second report from the Academic Misconduct Benchmarking Research Project (AMBeR) investigating HEI plagiarism policies in the UK has been published. I haven’t read the full report yet, but I will be! You can have a look at the Executive Summary for a shorter version (it was highlighted in the HEA’s latest bulletin).

Google has launched a new service, Knol, where their intention is to build up a collection of ‘authoritative’ articles on specific subjects. It’s at early stages, but worth having a look to be aware of it’s existence. As Peter Godwin suggests at his blog, there may be scope for doing comparative exercises with Wikipedia, Knol and Britannica in the future.

Or JOLT – an open-access journal published in the US, but with an international editorial board. It’s peer-reviewed, and is published by MERLOT, an organisation that is building a collection online learning materials ‘catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services‘. I haven’t heard of the journal or MERLOT before, but will be having a look to see what’s in its collections.

As today is the launch of the Learning 2.0 programme, it seems appropriate to post a link to an article by Iain Doherty published in HealthCare and Informatics Review Online:

Web 2.0: a movement within the health community (30 June 2008).

NHS Education for Scotland has published a draft version of their proposed IL framework for consultation.