“BIG6 by the MONTH: A PREVIEW,” Free recording

Posted on August 25th, 2011 in Announcements,Big6 by the Month by

Learn all about the “Big6 by the Month” in a 1-hr preview. In this session we will introduce our series of 9 monthly webinars for a Defined, Predictable, Measured and Reported information literacy program at your school.

 

Study: Students Lack Information Literacy Skills

Posted on August 25th, 2011 in Announcements,News and Views by

http://tinyurl.com/3wwfh7j

August 24, 2011 18:31

From Inside Higher Ed:

This is one of the sobering truths these librarians, representing a group of Illinois universities, have learned over the course of a two-year, five-campus ethnographic study examining how students view and use their campus libraries: students rarely ask librarians for help, even when they need it.

The most alarming finding in the ERIAL studies (http://www.erialproject.org/)  was perhaps the most predictable: when it comes to finding and evaluating sources in the Internet age, students are downright lousy.