Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Long Term Project for the Reference Staff - An Online Information Literacy Textbook

I hope we are not being asked to rediscover the wheel. There are information literacy textbooks available, but they are aimed at librarians or library school students. We need to make the university administration aware of what we are doing, but is it necessary to write it in a textbook format?

I still feel that subject specific information literacy is not necessary at the lower undergraduate level. Many years ago when I was a chemistry student, I did not need to search the literature at the undergraduate level. Doing it too early in the curriculum will only bore students and perhaps even create hostility toward us. "Oh, do we really need a library lecture?"

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