Theoretically, we are teaching "Information Literacy" as part of the
college's "Critical Thinking" curriculum. In reality, we spend most of
our time telling students that there are other options besides
Amazoogle and talking about evaluating information sources (especially
how to identify a scholarly article). The ACRL has spent a lot of time
talking about Information Literacy, and you can look at some of the
fruits of their work at
www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/informationliteracy.htm
On Jun 14, 2006, at 09:26, Steven Carr wrote:
> I think Karen has really captured the essence of what's been said so
> far...Thank you!
>
> I also have a question:
>
> For public libraries: Do any of you have a mission/plan/interest in
> "teaching" the catalog or searching to customers any more? Or do you
> do this more in terms of finding what you want on the net?
>
> For academic libraries: Is this teaching function still part of your
> mission as well? What are you teaching?
>
> Looking forward to hearing more about this.
>
> Steven L. Carr
> Bibliographic Services Manager
> ARLINGTON COUNTY LIBRARY
> 1015 North Quincy Street
> Arlington, VA 22201
>
> 703-228-5972
> scarr2_at_arlingtonva.us
>
>
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Systems/Circulation Librarian
Augsburg College
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Received on Wed Jun 14 2006 - 11:26:16 EDT