Elements of Digital Literacy - East and West

PS. This is a note to remind everyone that there is no one size fits all. Eastern/developing nations need  a different strategy, and different approach, as agains the rest of the developed world. The following is excellent in the latter case:

•  Digital Literacy and Multitasking @ startek

Extract: :About three years ago Doug Belshaw came up with the Eight C’s of Digital Literacy: Cultural [Cu], Cognitive [Cg], Constructive [Cn], Communication [Co], Confidence [Cf], Creative [Cr], Critical [Ct], and Civic [Ci]. This article briefly describes how each of these eight strategies might look in the classroom."

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Library users do have their say everywhere in a flat world

• Plan for book-less library in Newport scrapped after residents rally / Save Newport Library FB page
• Supporters declare their right to libraries -- In the spirit of our forefathers, supporters lined up to sign a “Declaration for the Right to Libraries” Saturday in Redford Township
• Kerala University promises favourable decision

Even as the Kerala University authorities had sought police help on Sunday to remove 11 students who were on a 'reading' protest at the Kariavattom campus library, on Monday they vowed their support to the students' demand for extended working hours of the library and said that the demand would be considered sympathetically.

• Community group must come forward to run Cockerton Library or it will close in 2016, councillor warns Northern Echo @ thenorthernecho.co.uk
• Students sit on hunger strike,demand facilities in library - Hindustan Times
• TAMPA Tribune,  — University of South Florida commits to restoring library hours, administrators said Thursday they will find the money to restore overnight hours at the Tampa campus’ main library, leading students to declare victory and cancel another planned protest -- info courtesy: Madhava Rao Adepu
• Hindustan Times, Students protest mismanagement of Punjabi University library, Alleging mismanagement of the Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha Library in Punjabi University, students on Thursday staged a protest in front of the library under the banner of Students Federation of India (SFI), and restricted entry to the building -- info courtesy: Madhava Rao Adepu
•  Library users to have their say - Southwark Council
•  Libraries campaigners to have their day in court - Get Surrey 
• Two Kinds of Revolution | Peer to Peer Review,  By Wayne Bivens-Tatum, Library Journal: the cost-driven revolution and the user-driven revolution
• Library fan hit books, became a librarian, Houston Chronicle
• Op-Ed: Let's Have a Dialogue on Library Changes,Mount Vernon Patch
• Students react to upcoming library renovations The Albion College Pleiad Online
• Long Beach Public Library introducing software to help improve service and manage resources, Signal Tribune  
• District library policy stirs heated debate,Davisclipper --FARMINGTON — Sensitivities are heightened regarding books in school libraries after a suit over a book in an elementary school library cost the district $15,000 to settle last year.
• What Do Libraries Call Users, and What Do Library Users Think of Themselves in relation to Libraries?
  by Bohyun (Library Hat).-- Do library users think of themselves as library “patrons?”

• How Does One Get Banned From Every Public Library in the World? John Metcalfe, The Atlantic Cities  -- "A VERY RUDE LIBRARY PATRON, IN WISCONSIN: A man in Racine has the dubious honor of becoming what's likely history's first person to be banned from public libraries – all of them. Tyree Carter was bailed out of jail only after signing papers in which he agreed to "stay out of all the libraries on the face of the earth," reports the Journal Times."   
• Library patron upset over parking - News - Coquitlam Now
• demanding patrons - The Merry Librarian