Laura Blankenship January 3rd, 2008
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 who are not. Interesting finding that bodes well for information literacy, if we seize the opportunity.
Laura Blankenship October 30th, 2007
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. There are challenges, of course, with information being less neatly organized. But the biggest challenge is to the idea of information organization itself. We are the organizers, not some group of gatekeepers.
Then, there’s this video about Today’s Student.
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Some very interesting information here. One thing that I thought about was the way that small liberal arts colleges really are positioned well to take advantage of information technology tools. Larger colleges and universities seem to be focused on using technology for more efficient information delivery, not for finding ways to engage students and create collaborative learning opportunities.
Laura Blankenship July 17th, 2007
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)
Laura Blankenship June 8th, 2007
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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