At 11:34 AM 8/2/2007, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
>Instead, it's having systems that meet the users where they are at, that
>work for the high school students AND the faculty AND provide the
>'ladder' to move from one to the other.
And the 'ladder' is bibliographic instruction. It might (partly) be
computerized, adaptive, and transparent or it might be (gasp!) an
actual human librarian who has teaching skills in addition to a
thorough knowledge of the relevant tools. You don't get from 'high
school students' to 'faculty' without education. Just adding pizza
and waiting six years time doesn't do it. Pretending that people will
get smarter by using the lite version of the tools doesn't make sense
to me. And trying to make the lite version give you everything that
the real deal does simply avoids the issue. Academic libraries, at
least, ought to be creating power users who can use the real deal
effectively to squeeze the maximum out of the catalog. College
seniors who are still always using the single search box (for
research) have not learned what they ought to have.
Mike
mike at jazzdiscography.com
www.jazzdiscography.com
Received on Thu Aug 02 2007 - 17:27:51 EDT