Great Free Official Statistics site

We cannot compete with the University of Auckland Library's web site OFFSTATS.....!! This excellent free site provides information on Official Statistics by country and subject/industry. OFFSTATS was established by Rainer Wolcke in 1998, and has been updated since by the Business and Economics Information Services Team in the University of Auckland Library.

Information Literacy rules! in UK SMEs

The article by Martin De Saulles "Information Literacy amongst UK-SMEs" Aslib Proceedings : New Information Perspectives 59 (1) 68-79 tells of a survey of UK SMEs and how important it is to these companies! Also how much money may be wasted by these companies having employees who are not Information Literate!
We Librarians use the term "Information Literacy" for recognising when information is needed and to locate, evaluate, organise and use information effectively, as well as the abilities to create, package and present information effectively to the intended audience. Sometimes this has been confused with literature searching, learning to learn, information skills or IT skills.
In fact Information Literacy is exactly what Alan, I and the Academic Liaison Librarians at UB are about!! We want to make your students information literate because it will not only help them get a better degree here but it's also essential in the workplace!!

Web 2.0 in Business Schools

Came across a quick summary of how some business Schools are using Web 2.0 tools in their curriculum. Examples from Manchester Business School Worldwide using Facebook, Henley College blogs, Stockholm School of Economics and Duke Corporate Education on Second Life, Manchester Met and Newcastle Business School.

Entrepreneurship sites

This blog is more than just new technology! When we find out about new web sites we think are important we will include them. Intute is the major general subject gateway which we are always recommending to students. It is an alternative to Google! It contains sites which have been selected by subject experts, working in various Universities throughout the country. Therefore the sites chosen should all be up to date and reliable. They may not be relevant to a particular topic, but results are often below a hundred, in huge contrast to Google. Therefore it is possible to do a subject search, and there are also subject lists (bit like Yahoo).They have just added a new list of sites about innovation and entrepreneurship.