Neuroscience
My SILS grad assistant and I presented some interesting research at the Librarians' Association at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill conference on March 13, 2015.
Check out our slides:
More details:
I've worked with students in Jim Hefner's JOMC 424 (Electronic Media Management) class, spending more and more time with his students. In spring 2014, he began *requiring* students to meet with a librarian, rather than encouraging them to do so, as they prepared to write their 12-15 page research paper. He had tried all manner of encouragement with little success; requiring students to meet with a librarian was much more successful.
In fall 2014, we received IRB approval to survey Hefner's students to assess if their meeting with us had an effect on their confidence in writing the paper (somewhat) and they perceived it would have an effect on meeting with a librarian in the future (they said it did).
This presentation highlights our research findings and discusses our plans for future interactions with Hefner's students.
Takeaway message: Tell faculty to require students to meet with a librarian!
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Neuroscience
Requiring Students to Meet with a Librarian, @launcch
My SILS grad assistant and I presented some interesting research at the Librarians' Association at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill conference on March 13, 2015.
Check out our slides:
Does Forcing Students to Ask for Help Work? from Stephanie Willen Brown
More details:
I've worked with students in Jim Hefner's JOMC 424 (Electronic Media Management) class, spending more and more time with his students. In spring 2014, he began *requiring* students to meet with a librarian, rather than encouraging them to do so, as they prepared to write their 12-15 page research paper. He had tried all manner of encouragement with little success; requiring students to meet with a librarian was much more successful.
In fall 2014, we received IRB approval to survey Hefner's students to assess if their meeting with us had an effect on their confidence in writing the paper (somewhat) and they perceived it would have an effect on meeting with a librarian in the future (they said it did).
This presentation highlights our research findings and discusses our plans for future interactions with Hefner's students.
Takeaway message: Tell faculty to require students to meet with a librarian!
- Librarians At Scienceonline #scio13
Librarians like to organize information, such as our books (WorldCat is a prime example -- it's a catalog of over 10,000 U.S. and international libraries' holdings), photographs (see the Library of Congress' Tissandier Collection of 1,000...
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It's time for my favorite #funconference, ScienceOnline2012, which starts on Thursday in RTP. #scio12 is a conference for science communicators, including scientists, students, educators, physicians, journalists, librarians, bloggers, programmers...
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A recent ethnographic study assessed how college students use the library for research projects and study needs. The results are worth your time to read if you expect students to do library research: basically, students rarely ask librarians for help....
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PubSub offers Librarian Blog rankings. Oooh, CogSci Librarian has gone up a smidge since yesterday & is tied for 36 in librarian blogs, or # 70,969 in the “Current Link Rank”. This is a good site for blogging vanity and for finding new librarian blogs...