Study Examines Student Research Behavior

Beyond Google: How Do Students Conduct Academic Research? is a departure from the findings of some other research studies on the topic. The study used student discussion groups, content analysis, and a student survey to determine that students may not be relying as exclusively as previously thought on search engine results and Wikipedia for research in lieu of library catalogs and databases.

New Natural Language Search Engine

There's a new natural language search engine that claims to consider the "meaning" and "context" of queries. The search engine uses several "grammar engines" to identify the relationships between words.

--Jason Setzer
Reference Librarian
Davidson County Community College

Facebook Hostile To Librarians?

You can read the article in the Chronicle of Higher Education and find out.