Jim Weinheimer said:
"Students have tremendous problems with this as they progress in their studies at university...once they are confronted with the task of finding information for a class paper...they discover they are helpless and don't know anything at all. They don't know where to begin; they don't know how to end; they don't know anything except to type different words into a box and it's not working...This is when they come to the reference librarian for help."
I don't know about that last sentence. I'd bet that a relatively small percentage of students working on papers actually approach a reference librarian for help finding resources when they run into problems. I bet most just keep plugging away, typing different words into a box until they find something that's "good enough" for them.
Bernie Sloan
--- On Fri, 4/23/10, Weinheimer Jim <j.weinheimer_at_AUR.EDU> wrote:
Received on Fri Apr 23 2010 - 11:11:27 EDT