In Google They Trust
An interesting article swam through my Twitterstream recently that’s a perfect complement to the Project Information Literacy report that Barbara mentioned last week. It’s a recent publication of research by the Web Use Project led by Eszter Hargittai, a professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. The article, Trust Online: Young Adults’ Evaluation of Web [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on July 25th, 2010 under Google, Information Literacy, Student Issues.
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A Guide, or a Crutch?
We’re moving the subject guides on our library website from HTML pages into a wiki, which we hope will make them easier for us to update and customize. It’s been a nice opportunity to freshen the content, weed out the dead links, etc. We plan to encourage faculty across the college to contribute to the [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on July 11th, 2010 under Information Literacy, Student Issues.
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Caught Between the Old and the New
Over the past academic year I’ve worked on a research project with a colleague to study the ways that students do their scholarly work, similar to the project at the University of Rochester a few years ago. We finished with data collection for this year and are spending the summer analyzing our results. We’ve gotten [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on June 26th, 2010 under Open Access, Peer Review, Research Issues, Scholarly Communications.
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A Full Day of Information Literacy
Last week I went to the ACRL New England chapter’s Library Instruction Group (NELIG) annual program Meeting Digital Natives Where They Are: New Standards for the New Student. This was my first conference entirely devoted to library instruction, and it was great to have the opportunity to think and talk about information literacy all day.
The [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on June 12th, 2010 under Conference Blogging, Information Literacy, Teaching.
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Reflections on Service
By now I’m sure everyone’s seen Thomas Benton’s article in praise of academic librarians in last week’s Chronicle of Higher Education. It’s getting a lot of link love in the blogosphere, and was in the top five most viewed and emailed articles on the Chron’s website early this week. I love being a librarian and [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on May 29th, 2010 under Just Thinking, Public Services.
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