Category Archives: information literacy

A Longitudinal Assessment of Graduate Student Research Behavior and the Impact of Attending a Library Literature Review Workshop

November 19, 2009 – 8:50 am

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This article discusses findings from a longitudinal research study that examined the way graduate students carry out the literature review and how they were impacted by attending a library literature review workshop. The literature review research process serves as an important gateway for graduate students’ into their scholarly communities’ practices, and can be a logical [...]

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Researchers of Tomorrow: A three year (BL/JISC) study tracking the research behaviour of ‘Generation Y’ doctoral students

November 6, 2009 – 2:15 pm

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Education for Change, in collaboration with The Research Partnership, has been engaged by the British Library and the JISC to undertake a groundbreaking 3-year study on the research behaviour of the ‘Generation Y’ scholar.
The study is tracking young doctoral students’ (those born between 1982 – 1994) information-seeking behaviour, analysing their habits in online and physical [...]

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Information-Seeking Behavior in the Digital Age: A Multi-disciplinary Study of Academic Researchers

October 15, 2009 – 9:36 am

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This article focuses on how electronic information resources influence the information-seeking process in the social sciences and humanities, examines the information-seeking behavior of scholars in these fields, and extends the David Ellis model of information-seeking behavior for social scientists, which includes six characteristics: starting, chaining, browsing, differentiating, monitoring, and extracting. The study was conducted at [...]

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Infolit videos

September 21, 2009 – 1:03 pm

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Peter Godwin has uploaded 3 short “head to head” vidoes he made with a colleague at Bedford University. They contrast broadsheet and tabloid newspapers, professional and academic journals, and Google and databases.
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source: Infolit blog

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Boolify

September 16, 2009 – 3:06 pm

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Why Use Boolify:Librarians, teachers and parents have told us how hard it is for students to understand web searching. Boolify makes it easier for students to understand their web search by illustrating the logic of their search, and by showing them how each change to their search instantly changes their results.
It’s simple, immediate and easy [...]

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Multimedia tutorial on group work wins Jorum competition

September 14, 2009 – 7:50 am

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A multimedia resource to help students and tutors overcome the challenges of group work has been awarded for its innovation in the Jorum learning and teaching competition.
‘Making Group-work work’, developed by LearnHigher, is itself a collaboration between the Universities of Brunel, Bradford and Leeds and involves a series of 10 video episodes, showing five students [...]

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Study methods & information literacy exemplars

August 25, 2009 – 3:05 pm

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This project created an online learning resource on Information Literacy designed to be used independently and as part of a blended learning taught unit at the University of Worcester, to be made available as a repurposable resource via Jorum, on the Information Literacy Group website, and on the project website.

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Journal of Information Literacy v.3. no. 2009

August 19, 2009 – 8:27 am

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Editorial
Bridging the gap between theory, research and practice of information literacy Susie Andretta
Articles
A needs analysis for information literacy provision for research: a case study in University College Dublin Avril Patterson
My students and other animals. Or a vulture, an orb weaver spider, a giant panda and 900 undergraduate business students Matthew Borg, Erica Stretton
Teaching [...]

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SkillClouds: Aggregating & presenting skills information to students

August 11, 2009 – 8:14 am

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This project investigated whether tags and tag clouds might be a visually appealing way of aggregating and presenting skills information to students. We adopted a user-centred design approach to ensure this project (SkillClouds) met the needs of students.

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Assess and Invest: Faculty Feedback on Library Tutorials

August 10, 2009 – 3:30 pm

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Communication and collaboration with faculty are increasingly important in the development of both curriculum-integrated and stand-alone “just in time” library tutorials. In the final developmental stages of the Evidence-Based Practice online tutorials, faculty members were asked to provide input during structured faculty feedback sessions. These sessions aimed to gather feedback on tutorial structure, discipline-specific content, [...]

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