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.

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--Jason Setzer
Reference Librarian
Davidson County Community College

Information Literacy Survey Results

Karen Long on the ILI-L Listserve has compiled the results of her Information Literacy survey, Promoting Information Literacy To Administration and Faculty, into an online pdf document. She agreed to let me share survey results with readers of this blog. The results are not broken down by types of libraries, but I thought this would be interesting reading. How do you promote Information Literacy efforts at your campus?