Practical research methods for librarians and information professionals. By Susan E. Back and Kate Manuel. 020.72
Covers a variety of methods and also includes a useful chapter on Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Research such as Asking the Wrong Questions, Seeing What You Want To See and Jumping to Conclusions.
The Academic Library and the Net Gen Student. By Susan Gibbons. 027.7
How social networking, online gaming, mobile devices and more have changed the way a generation lives and communicates, and how we should respond to that. "As our faculty begin to explore the possibilities and pedagogical potential of virtual worlds, it will be important that their libraries and librarians accompany them, lest we are replaced by new knowledge partners in the virtual world."
Blended learning : tools for teaching and training. By Barbara Allan. 025.5
A detailed guide to what blended learning is, the pedagogical theory underlying it, the various tools and technologies that can be used, how to design blended learning programmes and how to work as a tutor within such programmes. All from the perspective of information and library services.
Friday 28 March 2008
Academic libraries: social, communal or scary?
Journal of Academic Librarianship Vol.34 No.1 Jan 2008
Academic libraries: "Social" or "Communal"? The nature and future of academic libraries.
An article critical of attempts to introduce more social spaces, such as coffee bars and group study areas, into academic libraries on the grounds that such moves threaten to undermine "the environment of serious study and research."
College and Research Libraries Vol.69 No. 2 Mar 2008
A mixed-methods investigation of the relationship between critical thinking and library anxiety among undergraduate students in their information search process.
Mellon coined the term library anxiety in a 1986 study which found that it was experienced by 85% of college students. Many reported feeling lost, helpless and confused, and this study finds students making very similar comments more than 20 years on. One thing that's new is how many students contrast the anxiety they feel about using the library with their feelings of capability and comfort in searching the internet. The author quotes Diane Nahl's affective load theory in which she says that negative affective states disrupt cognitive strategies. I think this means it's hard to think straight when you're scared.
Academic libraries: "Social" or "Communal"? The nature and future of academic libraries.
An article critical of attempts to introduce more social spaces, such as coffee bars and group study areas, into academic libraries on the grounds that such moves threaten to undermine "the environment of serious study and research."
College and Research Libraries Vol.69 No. 2 Mar 2008
A mixed-methods investigation of the relationship between critical thinking and library anxiety among undergraduate students in their information search process.
Mellon coined the term library anxiety in a 1986 study which found that it was experienced by 85% of college students. Many reported feeling lost, helpless and confused, and this study finds students making very similar comments more than 20 years on. One thing that's new is how many students contrast the anxiety they feel about using the library with their feelings of capability and comfort in searching the internet. The author quotes Diane Nahl's affective load theory in which she says that negative affective states disrupt cognitive strategies. I think this means it's hard to think straight when you're scared.
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