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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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Real-Time Web Likely To Shift User Expectations
There are some interesting new real-time web developments, and I can see how the way in which information is being delivered in real time could very well shift user expectations for obtaining content from academic libraries. While we have some traditional types of electronic databases, such as Lexis/Nexis, that provide searchable news that is updated [...]
Posted by StevenB on January 7th, 2010 under Technology 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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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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A Dozen Newspaper Survival Tips For Academic Librarians
The newspaper industry has become a case study of sorts for what not to do to evolve in the Internet Age. Having waited too long to adapt to the Internet’s unique ability to broadcast real-time news, newspapers now find themselves struggling to survive, and in the past year several failed to do so. Given that [...]
Posted by StevenB on September 17th, 2009 under Worth Reading, information industries.
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