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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Info Literacy Ideas from the Writing Center
The Writing Center here at Baruch has a bunch of great workshops for students that touch on all sorts of issues that we bring up in our credit courses, workshops, and reference interactions. Keri Bertino and her staff have helpful uploaded to the Writing Center site a bumper crop of lesson plans and handouts from their workshops. Browsing the contents quickly, I can see lots of things that I hope will juice up my efforts to get students to think about what research really is and how you do it well.
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“Ask a Librarian” on Library Websites
I just ran across what I think is a great way to position “Ask a Librarian” services on a library web site. Look at how Ohio Universities does it on their LibGuides page and on their News and Events page. It looks clean and clear while offering options for im, chat, phone, e-mail, skype and appointments. It’s also in the same place on the pages, easy-to-find but not “in your face.”
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Database Pages on Libary Websites
As work is underway on our library website, I’d like suggest that we seriously consider how we design our databases page. Mita Williams, a librarian at the Leddy Library at the University of Windsor, recently published a thoughtful post where she considered various options for laying out the A-Z list of resources. One thing that I found interesting in her post was the idea of mimicking the way search engine results pages show the same basic info: title of resource, text snippet, and URL. I’d also like to second the idea of giving each database a unique page on the library website (with a URL that is stable and can be shared).
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Findings about Student Research Habits
There is a great article in today’s Inside Higher Ed by Steve Kolowich, “What Students Don’t Know,” that looks at some of the findings from the ERIAL Project, which used ethnographic research methods to understand the ways student thought about and did research at a handful of academic libraries in Illinois.
While you’re at the Inside Higher Ed site, definitely take a look at librarian Barbara Fister’s blog post from August 17, “Sources of Confusion,” which parses the findings of the Citation Project in which student papers were analyzed by a pair of composition instructors. Her post features a good comments thread, including one gem from William Badke. The post spotlights a fantastic interview with the researchers from the Citation Project in which it is argued that students should be working closely with sources rather than just mining them for quotes to use use in patchwriting. If they were actually reading the sources fully and understanding them, they wouldn’t be patchwriting and would offer more summaries of the sources they are using. Instead students just harvest a few useful quotes, and stich them into their papers with little understanding of the larger significance of their sources. The researchers suggest that when students are actually deeply engaged with their sources, they are less likely to plagiarize on purpose.
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