Archive for 'Student Issues'
Interest Group Advances Services To International Students
Did you know that the number of international students at about 3,000 U.S. colleges and universities rose 8% last year to a new high of 671,616. Big increases in students from China helped fuel the rise. As in other recent years, India once again sent the most students to the U.S., followed by China, South [...]
Posted by StevenB on February 3rd, 2010 under International, Student Issues.
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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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Digital Natives, Scholarly Immigrants?
While browsing through my table of contents alerts recently I came across an interesting article in the current issue of the Journal of Higher Education: “University Students’ Perceptions of Plagiarism,” by Lori G. Power (unfortunately behind the paywall at Project Muse). It’s a happy coincidence to come across this article now, as plagiarism has been [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on November 29th, 2009 under Information Ethics, Plagiarism, Student Issues, Worth Reading.
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Encouraging Engagement
Right now we’re in the midst of our busiest time in the semester for instruction at my library. I coordinate our information literacy program so instruction is always a big part of my job, but it looms even larger for me at this time of year. If I’m not teaching a class, I’m probably thinking [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on November 14th, 2009 under Faculty, Information Literacy, Student Issues, Teaching.
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