Doing research, communicating with Net Gen students and designing blended learning programmes.

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.