Archive for 'Research Issues'
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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The High Fidelity Challenge
Students no longer care about using high quality information.
Students are all too willing to satisfice for whatever content they can find along the path of least resistance.
Students are too dependent on search tools that facilitate their use of low quality sources.
These are common concerns we academic librarians have about our undergraduates. We lament [...]
Posted by StevenB on June 8th, 2010 under Information Literacy, Research Issues.
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Impact Factors Adjusted for Reality
An interesting study forthcoming in the September issue of C&RL tackles the question of how our scholarship is evaluated by tenure and promotion committees. As a tenured librarian in a department in which half of the faculty are currently working toward tenure, this question intrigues me. Fortunately, my non-librarian colleagues at my institution do not [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on November 7th, 2009 under Higher Education, Research Issues, Scholarly Communications, Worth Reading.
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Beware Of Overconfidence
I hope you took some time to take a look at the latest ECAR report on undergraduates and their use of and attitudes about technology. In addition to Barbara’s post and some good discussion over at COLLIB-L, I commented (on the discussion list) that I had brought up some of the same issues in my [...]
Posted by StevenB on November 3rd, 2009 under Research Issues, Student Issues.
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Finding Topics & Time for Scholarship
Laura’s recent post about faculty book projects has me thinking about writing. Even though I’ve been at my job for over a year, I still feel lucky to have landed a tenure track position at an academic library that I truly enjoy. During my hiatus from the academic world between my time as an archaeologist [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on August 10th, 2009 under Just Thinking, Research Issues.
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