Research data management, an emerging role for academic libraries

26 March 2009 – 6:32 am

The capture and storage of research data, and its preservation over time, is an emerging challenge for universities and other research institutions.
The University Library has a leading role in establishing standards, procedures and services to help researchers preserve their original data. We were therefore delighted to meet Robin Rice, who visited this month.
In a meeting [...]

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Learning new information literacy skills

24 April 2008 – 6:44 am

Henry Jenkins (MIT) and Howard Gardner (Harvard) are each leading projects investigating how to teach information literacy skills to the current generation of university students.
The New Media Literacies project at MIT takes what we might call an ‘embedded’ approach to teaching information literacy:
“How does digital copying relate to legacy notions of property? What do [...]

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Information management at a personal level

14 February 2008 – 6:18 am

Fifth-year arts-law student James5 (aka Devon Whittle) offers seven tips for new university students, including some comments about laptop usage, Endnote and personal information management. James5 is a student at the University of Melbourne.
In an Ockham’s Razor talk on ABC Radio, Sydney-based science writer Peter Macinnis describes his own ‘fact fossicking’ behavior when researching [...]

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