Blogging Librarian

- Beyond Google: How do students conduct academic research by Alison J. Head
A research paper that looks at how students do their research. Surprisingly, the study found that the majority of the students started their research by first consulting their lecturers’ course notes or on their school’s library website for online access to scholarly journals rather than going straight to Google, Yahoo! or Wikipedia. However, they did have a difficult time in determining and evaluating the information they found from the scholarly journals. Well, that’s a very short summary of the entire paper. What I found interesting from the paper is that the students do know where and how to search, but what they have difficulty with is the evaluation and presentation of the information found. As for students in Singapore, they rely a little too much on search engines and Wikipedia, which I found out when I was conducting a library workshop on electronic databases yesterday. So, more effort needs to put into encouraging better use of our electronic databases that are available in our public libraries.

- Multimedia Librarian
A wiki of useful websites, listservs and other resources that are of help in the collection development of DVDs, CDs and web content.
(via LibrarianInBlack.net)

- Beloit College’s Mindset List for the Class of 2011
A useful list for everyone, particularly teachers and librarians, to just know a little bit more about those who were born in 1989 and who would be entering university this year (for the ladies in Singapore as the guys will have to serve National Service).
(via The Shifted Librarian)

- Ask for What You Want
An interesting article in this month’s Library Journal by Michael Casey and Michael Stephens about the need for librarians to change our image in the eyes of the public. Whenever I tell someone that I’m a librarian, their first impression is that I stamp books or spend the whole day reading. So, what do you think can help change the image of librarians?
(via Tame The Web)

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