Archive for the tag "research_skills"
Something Is Better Than Nothing
As you read and learn more about design a basic principle appears again and again. Design for simplicity. In fact one hallmark of great design is that it makes the complex simple. That said, as Garr Reynolds put it in a recent presentation, simplicity should not be confused with simplistic. Simplistic is about dumbing things [...]
Posted: 22 July, 2009 in Information Literacy, Simplicity vs. Complexity.
Tags: library_catalogs, research_skills, simplicity
Comments: 2
There’s More To “Finding” Than We Thought
A Pew Internet & American Life Project study about search engine users indicated that the vast majority of them expressed satisfaction with their search skills. According to the study, 92% of those who use search engines say they are confident about their searching and 87% of searchers say they have successful search experiences most of [...]
Posted: 26 March, 2008 in Information Literacy, Student Issues.
Tags: finding_versus_searching, research_skills
Comments: 3