ebrary Releases Survey Findings on Social Media as Research Resource
The findings are found in an addendum to the ebrary 2011 Global eBook Survey. Highlights from the Social Media Addendum: While 41% of students are currently using social media for research or study,...
View ArticleNew Research Paper: "Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information...
Title Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality (150 pages; PDF) Authors Urs Gasser Harvard University - Berkman Center for Internet & Society; University of St. Gallen...
View ArticleResearch and Info Literacy Skills: "Spike Lee Latest Celeb to Practice...
From MSNBC: Spike Lee wasn’t the first to retweet the erroneous address on Twitter blindly accepted by many as that of George Zimmerman, the man who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin last month....
View ArticleNew Guide: Catching Up With Information Literacy Assessment Resources For...
This web resource guide appears as an article in the April 2012 issue of C&RL News. Title Catching Up With Information Literacy Assessment: Resources For Program Evaluation Author Cheryl L. Blevens...
View ArticleGuiding Students from Consuming Information to Creating Knowledge: A Freshman...
Title Guiding Students from Consuming Information to Creating Knowledge: A Freshman English Library Instruction Collaboration Authors Susanne F. Paterson The University of New Hampshire at Manchester...
View ArticleNew Online Publications: Vitae’s Information Literacy Lens and Informed...
From the Digital Curation Centre (UK): The DCC, as a member of the RIN Working Group on Information Handling, is delighted to announce the following new publications from Vitae. Being informed and...
View ArticleWikipedia Kills Page Linking Obama Slogan to Socialist Movement
From The NY Times: After a debate among readers who also cast votes on the issue, the Wikipedia administrator essentially killed the page by having it redirect to the general article on the Obama-Biden...
View ArticleResearch Article (Preprint): “The Research Process and the Library:...
Title The Research Process and the Library: First-Generation College Seniors vs. Freshmen Authors Elizabeth Pickard, MSI Liaison, College of Education, Assistant Professor, Reference Department,...
View ArticleHow Do Learners Develop Digital Literacies? (Digital Visitors/Residents...
A new progress report (June 2012) from the Digital Visitors and Residents project is now available. This research effort comes from a JISC, OCLC Research, and University of North Carolina partnership....
View ArticleEditor’s Note: Open-Web Collection Development
In today’s special infoDOCKET edition of LJXpress, we are collecting a few examples of some of the high-quality open-web resources we’ve shared on infoDOCKET during the past year. They are also...
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