Archive for 'Libraries and Learning'
Staying the Course
Classes started at my college last Thursday, officially bringing the winter intersession to an end. While the library was fairly quiet in January, I kept myself busy with a couple of big projects, including getting ready to teach our library’s first credit-bearing course this semester.
It’s been exciting (and, I admit it, a little scary) prepping [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on February 1st, 2010 under Information Literacy, Libraries and Learning, Student Issues, Teaching.
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What Can We Learn from “Lessons Learned”?
It has taken me way too long to get around to reading Project Information Literacy’s progress report, “Lessons Learned: How College Students Seek Information in a Digital Age.” Some of the key findings from their survey of over 2,000 students:
–They spend a lot of time getting a grasp of context: the big picture, the [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on January 10th, 2010 under Information Literacy, Libraries and Learning, Student Issues, Worth Reading.
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There’s Something About Mary George
. . . that you should know. She’s just started blogging for Inside Higher Ed. Woo hoo! She has an almost Dickensian flair for description (”that murky blob marked library on your campus map . . . the Great Grimpen Mire of academe”), but she also has a purpose in mind. She wants to help [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on August 19th, 2009 under Information Literacy, Libraries and Learning.
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Newsflash: Professor Visits Library
Thomas H. Benton, a.k.a. William Pannapacker, writes lyrically in the Chronicle about what the library meant to him as a student.
My undergraduate research projects were not particularly original, but I did learn that there was a continuing conversation on almost any subject that I could listen in on through books and—in those days—printed journals. [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on August 8th, 2009 under Information Literacy, Libraries and Learning, Teaching.
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Explaining Authority (Part 2)
After writing my previous post, our library director brought this report to my attention: “The Changing Nature of Intellectual Authority” by Peter Nicholson, presented at the 148th ARL meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, May 17-19 2006. Apparently I was “scooped” by a good three years, as the ideas in the report are similar enough to my [...]
Posted by onellums on June 8th, 2009 under First Year Academic Librarian Experience, Information Literacy, Libraries and Learning, Teaching.
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