I am a regular reader of ILI-L, an email list for librarians interested in information literacy and library instruction, and just came across our textbook author Bill Badke’s recent post offering advice to college faculty on teaching students how to research:
The Top 10 Things we All Should Know about Today’s Research Environment.
1. Sources of information are changing
2. Search in today’s databases is complex
3. Students don’t understand the research process
4. Students don’t know they don’t understand the research process
5. Faculty are increasingly baffled by research technology, and that can be corrected
6. Librarians hold the key to the information kingdom
7. You need librarians, and so do your students
8. Today’s academic databases offer so much more than keyword searching
9. Electronic full text is winning the day
10. Wikipedia is not Public Enemy Number One
Badke, William B. (2011, October 31). RE: faculty instruction. [Msg 9]. Message posted to http://lists.ala.org/sympa/arc/ili-l/2011-10/msg00266.html
Any comments? You know what to do.
~Prof. L.
