1. Waving not drowning: navigating the procurement and use of e-resources in
secondary schools.Some useful links (Spring 2014).
JISC- Users’ trust in information resources in the Web environment: a status report
Report exploring internet users' attitudes towards sources they encounter and how
trustworthy they think these sources are. In particular looks at attitudes towards e-
commerce and e-health sources.
Learning through Technology
Conference website, March 2013
American Library Association: School Libraries 2013 Report
The School Libraries section of the 2013 State of America’s Libraries Report from the
American Library Association provides an update on the crisis facing school libraries and
the decline in staffing of school librarians. Included in the report are statistics from the
"School Libraries Count!" survey regarding connectivity, technology and Internet
filtering in school libraries.
Adventures in Library Instruction podcast
A monthly podcast by and for library information literacy instructors and teaching
librarians. The show includes features, interviews and discussion about teaching in
libraries. No longer updated.
IPAD IN EDUCATION TRIAL 2012-2013: REPORT, EVALUATION AND DATA
Blogging about education, technology and Politics (by Matt Britland)
5 Free and Open Source Tools for Creating Digital Exhibitions
What are digital exhibitions?
Blog post: School Library Annual Reports: Connecting the Dots Between Your Library And
Student Learning
School Library Annual Reports: Connecting the Dots Between Your Library And Student
Learning
Pew Report: Teens, Social Media, and Privacy
Paperless public libraries switch to digital
BBC article on trend in America for public libraries to go digital.
A New Chapter? A Launch Of The Bookless Library
Article about new bookless library in Texas.
Blog Post on Setting up Nooks
Written by Jennifer LaGarde (aka library girl), lead librarian for New Hanover Schools
and an Educator on Loan for the NC Department of Public Instruction.

2. What does a school library look like in the digital age?
Guardian Article- As more of her students use ebooks and iPads to read, principal Tricia
Kelleher reflects on the role of her school's library.
Information behaviour of the researcher of the future
2008 report complied by The British Library and JISC
Truth, lies and the internet: a report into young people's digital fluency
2011 DEMOS Report
Softlink International 2012 Australian School Libraries Report
PDF file link
The Impact of ICT
2009 BECTA report
JISC report: Future of Academic Libraries
PDF file link
Key Issues for e-Resource Collection Development: A Guide for Libraries
Key Issues for e-Resource Collection Development: A Guide for Libraries by Sharon
Johnson, with Ole Gunnar Evensen, Julia Gelfand, Glenda Lammers, Lynn Sipe and
Nadia Zilper Published by IFLA
MuseumScouts Project
The MuseumScouts project illustrates a European-wide desire to bring schools and
cultural institutions (museums, galleries, historic sites and buildings, science centres)
together so that they may collaborate to offer valuable and complementary learning
experiences.
Blog Post: Harnessing Technology Grant
Blog maintained by Microsoft UK Education team.
Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value
2011 article from the New York Times exploring the digital classroom and whether
technology raises attainment.
ASLA: Future learning and school libraries
2013 report by the Australian school library association looking at the impact of digital
developments on school learning
School libraries in the UK: a worthwhile past, a difficult present - and a transformed future?
School Libraries in the UK: a worthwhile past, a difficult present – and a transformed
future? was commissioned by CILIP’s School Libraries Group and prepared by David
Streatfield, Sue Shaper and Simon Rae-Scott. Published 2010

3. Beyond Current Horizons
Beyond Current Horizons explores the future for education, beyond 2025.
Futurelab: Promoting transformative innovation in schools
PDF file link
Futurelab: Literature Review in Mobile technologies and learning
PDF file link
Exploratree
Exploratree is a free web resource where teachers and students can access a library of
ready-made interactive thinking guides, print them, edit them or make their own.
Thinking guides can support independent and group research projects with frameworks
for thinking, planning and enquiry. Exploratree was created as part of our work on
Enquiring Minds (supported by Microsoft).
Report by FutureLab: “It’s not chalk and talk anymore”
School approaches to developing students’ digital literacy.
Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)
Website documenting TEL, which is a UK £12m ESRC/EPSRC funded programme
running from 2007-2012 led by Professor Richard Noss at the London Knowledge Lab.
IOE: Decoding learning: the proof, promise and potential of digital education
Blog post about the research
Nesta : Decoding Learning report
White paper: Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st
Century
PDF file link
Buffy Hamilton
American school librarian and blogger
CILIP School Libraries Group
School Library Association
Bev Humphrey
Education consultancy
Stephen Heppell
JCS Online Resources
JCS Online Resources (JCS) enables schools worldwide to save up to 80% on trusted
online subscription resources.

4. A third of poorest pupils 'without internet at home'
More than a third of the poorest children do not have the internet at home and a similar
number do not have a computer, official figures suggest.
Encyclopaedia Britannica halts print publication after 244 years
The paper edition of the encyclopaedia ends its centuries-long run, but is it a victim or
beneficiary of the digital age?
Young people 'prefer to read on screen'
Young people are now much more likely to prefer to read on a computer screen rather
than a printed book or magazine, according to a UK survey.
E2BN Newsletter
East of England Broadband Network (E2BN) it is one of 10 Regional Broadband
Consortia (RBCs) set up by the Government to help raise standards in teaching and
learning by the use of broadband technology.
Why ebooks are a different genre from print
The differences in format are beginning to change the nature of what we're reading, and
how we do it
Five Reasons Why Online Learning is the Future of Education
Five Reasons Why Online Learning is the Future of Education
Education in brief: will EBCs raise achievement for all students?
Education in brief: will EBCs raise achievement for all students?
Michael Gove's national curriculum reforms: where's the creativity?
Michael Gove's national curriculum reforms: where's the creativity?
Free school offering 'cross-subject' learning approved by Michael Gove
Free school offering 'cross-subject' learning approved by Michael Gove
Plenary Talk P3: Ettu MOOC? Massive Online Considerations
Powerpoint presentation from Institutional Web Management Workshop by
KyriakiAnagnostopoulou, Head of e-learning team at the University of Bath.
Tramscom Education
Company providing advice of Apple solutions for schools.
For Libraries, MOOCs Bring Uncertainty and Opportunity
Article from The Chronicle of Higher Education on the impact of MOOCs on university
libraries in America.

5. Technology offers a route into reading for disadvantaged three to five-year-olds
Article from The National Literacy Trust about the benefits of e-books for disadvantaged
young readers.
Textbooks replaced by iTunes U downloads
BBC report about a school in Cambridge where teachers are making their own online
library of lessons and course materials for GCSE, A-levels and International
Baccalaureates.
TACCLE
Website supporting TACCLE training on creation of e-learning content.