New report on Research behavior
Researchers and Discovery Services: Behaviour, Perceptions and Needs
commissioned by the Research Information Network in UK at
http://www.rin.ac.uk/files/Report%20-%20final.pdffrom Nancy Macomber via CULIBS-L
Labels: information literacy
Using fake websites to teach evaluation of sources
One way to help students in your workshops and classes appreciate the value of evaluating web sites when doing research is to show them a real shocker (such as the white-supremacist created Martin Luther King web site, which I won't link to it here and help boost its Google ranking further) or a fake or spoof web site. If you are looking for some new sites to use, check out
this list from Philip Bradley on his web site (while you're there, take a look at
his blog, too, which I find indispensable).
Labels: information literacy
Assignments That Work! Brooklyn College Announces New Information Literacy Project
Creating information literate students is not the sole province of librarians, but rather a partnership between library and classroom faculty. Nonetheless, librarians sometimes lament, “If only classroom faculty would give students assignments that cause them to use the information literacy skills librarians are teaching!”
The Brooklyn College Library announces a new information literacy project, Assignments That Work! Originally conceived by Professors Mariana Regalado (Brooklyn College), Tess Tobin (NYCCT), and Miriam Laskin (Hostos) through LILAC work, this initiative includes a data bank of assignments that promote the development and exercise of information literacy skills (presently under construction in DSpace –
http://www.dspace.org/), accompanied by a spring 2008 lecture/workshop series. When it debuts early next year, the data bank will be seeded with assignments identified by Brooklyn College Library faculty for their particular effectiveness in building and strengthening information literacy skills. Classroom faculty (first at Brooklyn College, later throughout CUNY) will be invited to contribute their own assignments to the data bank, which will be searchable by discipline.
CUNY library and classroom faculty will be invited to the spring lecture/workshop series, funded by the office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies. Team members for the Assignments That Work! project include Brooklyn faculty Mariana Regalado, Jane Cramer, and Stephanie Walker. For more information, please contact Mariana Regalado at
Regalado@brooklyn.cuny.edu.
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Survey of library instruction
If you've got five minutes to spare, take Carleton College's
survey of library instruction.
Found via Steve Lawson's
See Also... blog.
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