Information Literacy

Energizing warning for the conference attendees

Posted by on March 2, 2007 at 7:26 pm

Karen Schneider had an energizing notice for the contention attendees — for years now, libraries have given up ownership, control, as good as aptitude in inform management. We don’t own or set up the catalogs as good as subordinate — we franchise embarrassingly bad systems from dispassionate vendors. We don’t catalog the own understand (or [...]

PaperRSS trails

Posted by on November 7, 2006 at 4:53 pm

One of my the one preferred tech authors, Jeremy Keith, has posted an engaging bit about streaming his hold up away. It seems which there could be library applications which would good from the identical bid if someone many-sided the RSS streams combined whilst you do research. For example, we only not long ago wrote an essay with the colleage (have [...]

The state of research skills

Posted by on March 27, 2006 at 6:42 pm

The dilution of examine skills as good as the need for inform literacy, the theme we have discussed frequently, has finished the proceed to mainstream discussions once again: Searching for Dummies. Also enchanting is plead of an one more theme we debated, Wikipedia. The letter cites the weed roots bid by grad students to put good [...]

Take a bow, pt 2

Posted by on February 15, 2006 at 6:52 pm

A List Apart ran dual articles this week of reader contributions about what they adore as well as hatred about a Web. Thomas Bleijendaal, student, writes: Seeking genuine great report upon a internet (school things for example) is still really hard. If we try to find a little great report about aerodynamics, it’s your day-job. we have been [...]