Web Hoax

Even experts get bitten by the rumor bug. Sara Scribner has blogged about the importance of school librarians in the digital age, especially when it comes to training students about reliable and unreliable sources of information. So you’d think she wouldn’t have been thrown by Jenny the Dry-Erase Girl—a young woman who told the story [...]

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Steps in the Research Process

These steps outline a simple and effective strategy for finding information for a research paper and documenting the sources you find. Depending on your topic and your familiarity with library resources, you can adapt this outline to suit your needs. Each step below is followed by a brief summary. For more explanation as well as [...]

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Library Video Tutorials

Sometimes a video instructional tutorial helps students easily learn about topics such as scholarly vs. popular journals, why you need to cite sources and how to develop search terms.  But why try to create one on your own when there are many perfectly good ones already?  The  Cooperative Library Instruction Project is one of the best [...]

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How College Students Seek Information

Project Information Literacy released Lessons Learned: How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age December 1, with findings from its large-scale student survey administered on six different U.S. campuses during Spring 2009. The study found that nearly all students used course readings and Google first for course-related research, and Google and Wikipedia for everyday [...]

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