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Involving children and young people in research (Note: PDF)

From the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) website

Involving children and young people in participatory research can be of great benefit to the young participants as well as to researchers. However, that involvement also raises a number of ethical and access challenges. ‘Involving Children and Young People in Research’ is a compendium of papers that seeks to define and address those challenges within the broader context of changing attitudes toward the right of children and young people to play an active role in the decisions and actions that shape their lives. The compendium is one result of a symposium held in November 2008, co-hosted by ARACY and the NSW Commission for Children and Young People. The Think Tank brought together leaders in the field of participatory research to share their experience and identify what works and what doesn’t work in research that is with and by children – as well as for and about them.


Papers and Presentations from the 13th International Conference on Electronic Publishing: Rethinking Electronic Publishing: Innovation in Communication Paradigms and Technologies

From the International Conference on Electronic Publishing website

Here are the titles of some (just a few) of the presentations that are available to read/view online. This conference took place in Milan, Italy at the beginning of June 2009.

* Creation of an International Digital Library of Manuscripts: seamless access to data from heterogeneous resources (ENRICH Project)
* Exploring the costs and benefits of alternative publishing models
* Understanding how Students and Faculty REALLY use E-Books: The UK National E-Books Observatory
* Economic sustainability during transition: the case of scholarly publishing
* Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age


Information Literacy Seven Corners: Improving instruction by reviewing how librarians, faculty culture, professional literature, technology, and today’s college students converge (Note: PDF)

From the E-prints in Library and Information Science website

This article reviews library and education literature, as well as the author’s personal observation of undergraduate information literacy (IL) instruction sessions, and provides a range of ideas and suggestions for ways in which librarians can increase the effectiveness of IL instruction sessions. The author asserts that there are five major influences that present challenges and opportunities to librarians who wish to increase authentic collaboration with faculty for course-integrated instruction that more fully addresses the higher-thinking skills true information literacy requires. In today’s world of expanded electronic access to information and the impact ubiquitous Internet searching has had on students entering or returning to post-secondary education, new strategies must be employed to facilitate instruction that goes beyond procedural skills – the conceptual aspects of information literacy and critical thinking must come to the forefront of library and classroom instruction.


Music Libraries in the Digital Age (NB: PDF)

From the Koninklijke Bibliotheek website

In the week 5th – 10th July, the annual conference of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) took place in Amsterdam. The first speech of the Keynote Session was ‘The Sirens of Pirate Bay’ by Dr. Martin Bossenbroek, Director of Collections & Services at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. He focused on the actual debate on copyright and its implications for (music) libraries. In his presentation the following items are addressed:
· the far-reaching effects of the digital revolution for the media landscape as a whole and the music industry in particular
· it shows the extreme diverse reactions in society on the transformation of the media landscape and its implications for copyright
· it poses – and answers – the most important question: how can librarians – including those far away from the turbulent pop music scene and devoted to classical music – cope with these shifting realities of the digital world?


The Future of Publishing (VIDEO), Running Time: 1:34:30

From the MIT World website

Nostalgia, anxiety and optimism mix in this panel devoted to imagining what lies ahead for the book, as publishing professionals and others discuss the impact of digital technology on the business.