Archive for the tag "web searching"
Convenience and its Discontents: Teaching Web-Scale Discovery in the Context of Google
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Pete Coco, formerly of Grand Valley State University, now Humanities Liaison at Wheaton College in Norton, MA. With the continued improvements being made to web-scale discovery tools like Proquest’s Summon and EBSCO’s Discovery Service, access to library resources is reaching a singularity of sorts: frictionless searching. Providing a unified [...]
Posted: 27 January, 2012 in Student Issues, Teaching, Technology Issues.
Tags: discovery tools, Google, internet, web searching
Comments: 27
Thinking About ‘The Filter Bubble’
This month’s post in our series of guest academic librarian bloggers is by Jessica Hagman, Reference and Instruction Librarian at Ohio University. She blogs at Jess in Ohio. Last fall, I taught a one-credit learning community seminar. During the week where we discussed research and library resources, I showed the class this video from Google, [...]
Posted: 7 July, 2011 in Google, Information Literacy, Student Issues, Technology Issues.
Tags: Facebook, filter bubbles, Google, personalization, web searching
Comments: 6