Archive for 'Information Literacy'
Taxonomy of Collaboration
Back to school means back to library instruction, and while gearing up for the busy fall season I’ve found myself mulling over a few instruction issues. Outreach to faculty is something I think about often, especially outreach to those who either don’t know about or don’t seem interested in library instruction. Most of these faculty [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on August 29th, 2010 under Faculty, Information Literacy, Teaching.
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Let’s Not (Just) Do the Numbers
Meredith Farkas has a thoughtful post at Information Wants to be Free on our love of numbers and how little they tell us without context. Less traffic at the reference desk: what does that mean? It could mean that students don’t find the help they get there useful, or that your redesigned website or new [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on July 26th, 2010 under Assessment, Information Literacy.
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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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Reading Between the Assignment’s Lines
Project Information Literacy has a new study out that complements their earlier work. In the new study, PIL researchers collected and examined research assignment prompts to see how they guide students toward good sources, and discovered that … they don’t. That is, the assignments tend to be fairly specific about the surface features of what [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on July 13th, 2010 under Faculty, Information Literacy.
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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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