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‘Scholarship in the Digital Age’: November 14, 2007

"It’s hard to meet academics these days whose work hasn’t been changed by the Internet. But even if everyone knows that the world of scholarship has changed, it’s not always clear just…
Why Johnny Can't Search (Intelligently): January 1, 2007

Diana G. Oblinger, Vice President of EDUCAUSE, discusses the importance of critical thinking skills and the current ways information literacy is being taught in higher education. …
What Today’s College Students Say about Conducting Research in the Digital Age: February 11, 2009

A report of preliminary findings and analysis from student discussion groups held on 7 U.S. campuses in Fall 2008, as part of Project Information Literacy. Qualitative data from discussions with …
What open access research can do for Wikipedia: January 1, 2007

This study examines the degree to which Wikipedia entries cite or reference research and scholarship, and whether that research and scholarship is generally available to readers. Working on the ass…
What Is FRBR?: January 1, 2005

Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records is a conceptual model for how bibliographic databases might be structured, considering what functions bibliographic records should fulfill in an era…
Using Blogs for Formative Assessment and Interactive Teaching: April 30, 2007

This case study shows how students were taught the skills they need to find information relevant to their subject area. As groups of students are generally seen once only, measures to assess the …
User Interface Implementations of Faceted Browsing: April 28, 2008

Just as it is important to choose the proper knife when slicing-n-dicing vegetables, it is critical to prescribe a suitable user interface to support faceted filtering. Faceted filtering allows y…
Truth Be Told: How College Students Evaluate and Use Information in the Digital Age: November 4, 2010

A report about college students and their information-seeking strategies and research difficulties, including findings from 8,353 survey respondents from college students on 25 campuses distribut…
The Online Library Catalog: Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained?: January 1, 2007

This think piece tells why the online library catalog fell from grace and why new directions pertaining to cataloging simplification and primary sources will not attract people back to the online c…
The Nature of Meaning in the Age of Google: January 1, 2004

The culture of lay indexing has been created by the aggregation strategy employed by Web search engines such as Google. Meaning is constructed in this culture by harvesting semantic content from We…

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