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Is there an information literacy skills gap to be bridged? An examination of faculty perceptions and activities relating to information literacy in the United States and England
(American Library Association, 2010-05)
Surveys of faculty were conducted at two higher education institutions in England and the United States to ascertain their perceptions of information literacy. Faculty were also asked about the extent to which they ...
Chucking the checklist: A contextual approach to teaching undergraduates Web-site evaluation
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004-07)
This paper criticizes the checklist model approach (authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, coverage) to teaching undergraduates how to evaluate Web sites. The checklist model rests on faulty assumptions about the ...
Whipping up an appetite for academic journals
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2009)
Developing students' information and research skills via Blackboard
(Communications in Information Literacy, 2007-03)
This paper summarizes work undertaken at De Montfort University (Leicester, UK) to develop students’ information and research skills using the Blackboard Virtual Learning Environment. It outlines how a traditionally delivered ...