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How Teens Do Research in the Digital World

November 1, 2012

According to a survey of teachers, conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project in collaboration with the College Board and the National Writing Project, the inte…

Project Information Literacy Research Report: “Learning Curve”

October 16, 2012

Qualitative findings about the information-seeking behavior of today’s college graduates as they transition from the campus to the workplace. Included are findings from interviews with 23 US em…

Connect, Collaborate, and Communicate: A Report from the Value of Academic Libraries Summits

June 6, 2012

As part of ACRL’s Value of Academic Libraries Initiative, a multiyear project designed to assist academic librarians in demonstrating library value, ACRL joined with three partners—the Associ…

A Systems Approach: Expanding Access and Achieving Student Success through Support Services at Rio Salado College

March 12, 2012

This report covers how Rio Salado College (RSC) in Tempe, Arizona provides a full slate of support services to its online learners. The report was designed to capture the essence of a rela…

Pew Internet Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives

February 29, 2012

Teens and young adults brought up from childhood with a continuous connection to each other and to information will be nimble, quick-acting multitaskers who count on the Internet as their extern…

How today’s college students use Wikipedia for course-related research

March 16, 2010

Findings are reported from student focus groups and a large–scale survey about how and why students (enrolled at six different U.S. colleges) use Wikipedia during the course–related resea…

Plagiarism Prevention Without Fear

January 26, 2010

Could student plagiarism actually be reduced? And could it be reduced not through fear of being caught, but through ... education? The evidence in a study released recently suggests that t…

Search engine use behavior of students and faculty: User perceptions and implications for future research

December 17, 2009

This paper examines the use of Web search engines by faculty and students to support learning, teaching, and research. We explore the academic tasks supported by search engine use to investigate …

How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age

December 2, 2009

A report of findings from 2,318 respondents to a survey carried out among college students on six campuses distributed across the U.S. in the spring of 2009, as part of Project Information Litera…

Information Literacy and IT Fluency

May 28, 2009

© 2009 Sandy Schaeffer, Michael Fry, Barbara Draude, and Gail Matthews-DeNatale. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Lice…