As it turns out, those who are computer literate are more likely to use the library than most others.  Young people between the ages of 18 & 30 who are internet savvy, those that some in older generations complain are less interested in such things, are twice as likely to use a library as those [...]

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First, there’s this video on the Information R/evolution:
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I’m in the middle of reading Everything is Miscellaneous, which I highly recommend to anyone who regularly creates, stores, uses, or interacts with information of any kind–which is almost all of us. This video in combination with the book are really hitting home. [...]

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Mark flies solo and breaks down the latest salvo from Michael Gorman, noted library curmudgeon, with guest Jon Mark Bolthouse of the University of Wisconsin Colleges.
References include Scott McLemee’s article summarizing the Gorman post on Inside Higher Ed, Steven Bell, and of course Michael Gorman

Enjoy!
Episode 18 (approx. 33 min., 35 Mb)

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In this episode, we cover several bibliography tools and issues surrounding their use.
Episode 15 (mp3, about 16mb)
Links we covered:
My EndNote
Zotero
CiteULike
BibMe
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