ALIA has announced grants of $500 for public libraries to train Adult Community Education providers in Information Literacy Skills. The funding comes from Adult Learning Australia and aims to improve ACE providers’  information literacy, internet searching and web 2.0 skills. Applications close on the 15th September, so you will have to move quickly on this [...]

Late last month tango posted about a report on Australia’s Internet filter. It sparked some discussion and one of the main points was that we, those in the discussion, believe that user education is more important than filtering. With this in mind it was interesting to read on The Australian IT website an article entitled [...]