Neuroscience
The good folks at the University of Washington's Project Information Literacy created a great infographic of their findings about 11,000 college students' research habits:
For the text-based learners among you:
For more, check out the Project Info. Literacy website, where you can read an article from College & Research Libraries about Alison Head's research, watch a video, and more!
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Neuroscience
Infographic: Research on Students' Research Habits
The good folks at the University of Washington's Project Information Literacy created a great infographic of their findings about 11,000 college students' research habits:
For the text-based learners among you:
- 70% use Wikipedia
- 92% use search engines
- 88% library databases
- 83% instructors
- 30% librarians (emphasis mine)
- 84% getting started
For more, check out the Project Info. Literacy website, where you can read an article from College & Research Libraries about Alison Head's research, watch a video, and more!
- Embedding Libguides Into Course Management Systems
from http://www.iconarchive.com/show/ color-stroked-icons-by-mfayaz/find-icon.htmlMy getting-ready-for-school tasks include creating library course guides for each class I plan to talk to about using library resources. Last academic year, I taught...
- My Library Life, Last Week
Once again, I participated in #libday8, a semi-annual event coordinated by Bobbi Newman of Librarian by Day. Twice a year librarians, library staff & library students share a day (or week) in their life through Twitter & other...
- Working With Faculty On Instruction Assignments
Two of my former students have pointed me to an interesting blog piece called "Stepping on Toes: The Delicate Art of Talking to Faculty about Questionable Assignments" by Ellie Collier. Collier talks about faculty aversion to "online" resources -- and...
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Dodie Gaudet posts over at the Our Future blog about the terrific-ness of school librarians and is filled with Respect and Admiration for them. I totally agree! I teach reference to future school librarians (among others) and since I don't know much...
- Technology + Pubmed Searching Tips
The University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries has created a very cool set of training “videos” online for PubMed. They use the Camtasia software to capture both actions taken on the screen as well as accompanying audio to create an online...