This paper focuses on the changes in education and their implication for the university library. The impact of Avans's strategic educational vision on the design and lay-out of the buildings. Especially Xplora, the Learning Centre of Avans, will be described. The three locations of the Avans Learning …

Het doel van dit is boek is om de lezer te wijzen op de gevarieerde en innovatieve methodes om de 'lessen' informatievaardigheden, die reeds geïntegreerd zijn in het curriculum, te beoordelen en na die beoordeling (eventueel) te verbeteren.

The main purpose of the research was the development and testing of an assessment tool for the grading of Dutch students' performance in information problem solving during their study tasks. Scholarly literature suggests that an analytical scoring rubric would be a good tool for this.Described in this …

Een eigen Library Dashboard met grafisch schitterend vormgegeven interactieve kerncijfers over de bibliotheek. Het kán een sterk marketinginstrument zijn waarmee je tot in detail de sterke punten kunt etaleren. Dus… verzamel de statistieken en ga aan de slag!

Twitterende bibliotheken zijn op 1 oktober wereldwijd in het zonnetje gezet. Zes Nederlandse informatieprofessionals hadden die dag uitgeroepen tot de follow a library-dag om positieve aandacht te vragen.

This paper is a report of a review conducted to provide an overview of the evidence in the literature on task-oriented training of stroke survivors and its relevance in daily nursing practice. Background: Stroke is the second leading cause of death and one of the leading causes of adult disability in …

In The Guardian, Alan Rushbridger compared the future of newspapers to climate change. Five years ago, many climatologists were sceptical whether climate change was a real and serious issue. Today, most scientists agree that global warm ing is a fact of life. In the world of newspapers, at present, almost …

In april '07 vond in de VS het congres 'Computers in Libraries' plaats. Gerard Bierens en Liesbeth Mantel signaleren de opvallendste trends. 'De bibliotheekcatalogus gaat onherroepelijk onder het mes.'

The exploitation of the metagenome for novel biocatalysts by functional screening is determined by the ability to express the respective genes in a surrogate host. The probability of recovering a certain gene thereby depends on its abundance in the environmental DNA used for library construction, the …

International Summer School on the Digital Library Course 2: Digital Libraries and Education 8 August 2002 Our proposition in this paper is: The overall quality of education can be improved by application of the different expertises of educational and library staff in course design and course delivery. We …