The digital environment offers opportunities and challenges for librarians in all aspects of their work - in information literacy, virtual reference, institutional repositories, e-learning, managing digital resources and social media. University Libraries.
Covering the basics of planning, collecting and evaluating, the standards-based exercises in this book: address one or more of the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education; promote conceptual and applied skills via active learning, problem-based learni…
Today's librarians and educators face the difficult challenge of staying current with the lastest technologies and online resources while keeping students motivated to learn. Students' current knowledge of and passion for networking sites can add to their classroom learning expe…
What do orcs, elves, and information literacy have to do with each others? Find out in Voyage across a Constellation of Information as we take an in-depth look at information literacy practices (how people find, evaluate, and use information) in the massively multiplayer online …
This book considers the digital dilemmas that are encountered in higher education, such as the perils of plagiarism and how these can be avoided by behaving ethically with regard to all digital information formats. Digital Detectives challenges students to become independent and…
How to analyze data settings rather than data sets, acknowledging the meaning-making power of the local. In our data-driven society, it is too easy to assume the transparency of data. Instead, Yanni Loukissas argues in All Data Are Local, we should approach data sets with an awa…
