Attending the American Libraries Association Conference (ALA) in New Orleans? Join TASCHA Research Scientist Chris Jowaisas at the panel Ensuring the Future of Libraries: Connecting the Academy and the Profession. The panel dives into one strategy to make this connection – a Distinguished …
El informe del Desarrollo y Acceso a la Información esta ahora disponible en Español. Su objetivo central es promover la visibilidad de las bibliotecas en el contexto de la Agenda 2030. Este informe fue oficialmente lanzado el 17 de julio del 2017 durante el Foro Político de Alto Nivel de las …
The Development and Access to Information report, a TASCHA and International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) project, has been released in Spanish. The report, officially launched at the United Nations High Level Political Forum (HLPF) on July 17, 2017, explores how …
TASCHA Principal Research Scientist Maria Garrido and TASCHA Research Scientist Michelle Fellows will present next week at the 10th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML 2018) in Chania, Crete, Greece. Maria will give a keynote speech titled …
Research Coordinator Stacey Wedlake is attending the 2018 Net Inclusion Summit in Cleveland, Ohio organized the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA). While at the conference, she’ll present a Lightning Talk on TASCHA’s Mobile Information Literacy Curriculum. Here are her …
Tuesday morning, TASCHA Director Chris Coward spoke at the “Defining and mainstreaming digital skills” plenary at Mobile Learning Week. You can read his remarks below and see Twitter reactions from the remarks. Learn more about TASCHA’s participation in Mobile Learning Week on …
During the week of March 12, in partnership with EIFL and Kenya National Library Service (KNLS), TASCHA Research Coordinator Stacey Wedlake conducted a training on Mobile Information Literacy to 20 librarians in Nakuru, Kenya. The training covered the Mobile Internet, how to safely choose and …
The last week of March marks the annual Mobile Learning Week, UNESCO and the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) flagship ICT in education event. TASCHA’s Director Chris Coward and researchers Stacey Wedlake and Maria Garrido will be traveling to UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris to …
Starting last fall, a new project between between TASCHA, the Tableau Foundation, Worldreader, and the UW DataLab has been using big data analysis and visualization to unlock stories about mobile reading patterns across the globe. This dataset is particularly interesting to TASCHA, as we …
From November 27 – 29, the Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation (MBPAF) conducted the first full implementation of the Data for Decision Making curriculum in Yangon, Myanmar. The curriculum, developed collaboratively by TASCHA and MBAPF, builds the capabilities of research …