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From Forbes.com – Young Learners Need Librarians, Not Just Google. Mark Moran writes: In the libraries of old, the Dewey Decimal System got you started on research. But there is no card catalog 2.0. To use the Internet as a library you need new research skills: the ability to pick out reliable sources from an [...]

Mar 29th, 2010 | Filed under Uncategorized

This video is from a study on how undergraduates seek information for research. I came across it by way of The Participatory Library Starter Kit. University of Washington iSchool faculty Alison Head, Mike Eisenberg and David Nasatir did the study. All three lead Project Information Literacy, a large scale study about early adults and their [...]

Feb 28th, 2009 | Filed under information literacy

Finally done fine-tuning! Check it out on the LIS 5313 wiki: Twittering Libraries. I also created a page on this blog and posted the same article there (ya know, just in case the wiki disappears — I don’t own the wiki, after all).


NOTE:  This is the third question of a 15-part questionnaire I sent out to over 90 libraries with Twitter accounts. 65 libraries responded. I used this information for a web 2.0 article for my LIS 5313 class at Florida State University. Once the article is finished, I will share it on the blog. In the [...]

Dec 14th, 2008 | Filed under Classes, LIS5313, twitter

Note: This is the second (part b) question of a 15-part questionnaire I sent out to over 90 libraries with Twitter accounts. 65 libraries responded. I used this information for a web 2.0 article for my LIS5313 class at Florida State University. Once the article is finished, I will share it on the blog. In [...]

Dec 13th, 2008 | Filed under Classes, LIS5313