11/9/2006
research linkdump
Naturally, the month I’ve decided to remove myself from blogging is the month where I actually find stuff I’m interested in posting about - something that’s been few and far between the past several months for me.
First, Research Beyond Google is an awesomely thorough list of authoritative research sources geared towards college students, but I definitely think it has legs beyond academia. I have a couple of analysts here at MPOW who I think may have napped through their information literacy classes (having taught information literacy to engineering students at the University of Wisconsin, and having kicked the legs of more than one chair during these classes, this seems probable).
Speaking of information literacy, Stephen Abrams hates the term. I’m not too fond of it either, though I’m even less fond of the one he used to title his blog entry - “information fluency.” Both have always seemed to be empty catchphrase names to me, designed to sound impressive without really meaning much at all. Stephen’s problem with information literacy is that it indicates that your patrons/clients are illiterate. He’s got several alternative names listed (from a listserv, not necessarily of his making), and while some of them are viable, some are just as bad. Information Competence Instruction, for instance. If literacy has bad connotations, then I can’t imagine competence has good ones. And some are just too long - Information Research Strategies Library Training? Reduce that to “Research Strategies” and you might have something useable.
“Clicks & Tricks” does have a nice ring to it, though.
Filed under: Librarianship
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