Blogs about: Information Seeking
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ROAR & DOAR: Registry / Directory of Open Access Respositories
I started to look for open access repositories and was getting absolutely overwhelmed until I discovered ROAR and DOAR. See also eScholarship Respository (California Digital Library) Directory of … more »
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info diet 2
robotika wrote 3 days ago: Thanks to College and Research libraries journal going open-access I can now read the ACRL articles … more »
ROAR & DOAR: Registry / Directory of Open Access Respositories
annietv600 wrote 1 month ago: I started to look for open access repositories and was getting absolutely overwhelmed until I dis … more »
Meeting the Information Needs of the American Public: Past Actions and Future Initiatives
lilyheart wrote 1 month ago: http://www.nclis.gov/about/MeetingtheInformationNeedsoftheAmericanPeople-NCLISFinalReport.pdf A Repo … more »
E-health reality check
Sandy Swanson wrote 3 months ago: Susannah Fox at Pew Internet & American Life compares two Pew reports that seem to say different … more »
"We want to look for concepts, but we are forced to search for words"
Laurel Tarulli wrote 3 months ago: This quote is from my old Online Retrieval textbook by Geraldine Walker and Joseph Janes. I’ve … more »
In Search of Solutions: Using the Internet, Libraries and Government to Find Help
lilyheart wrote 4 months ago: Information searches that solve problems How people use the internet, libraries, and government age … more »
Pew Internet Report: Information Seeking Behavior
Sandy Swanson wrote 4 months ago: Meredith Farkas summarizes a new Pew Internet & American Life report in her blog Information W … more »
Finding federal information?
Anastasia Tarmann Lynch wrote 4 months ago: Lately, there has been a train of comments and reports on how we are locating or not locating federa … more »
Shneiderman (2007)
sheiladenn wrote 4 months ago: Shneiderman, B. (2007). Creativity support tools: Accelerating discovery and innovation. Communicati … more »
Online databases
librarian07 wrote 5 months ago: I work at an academic/special library which offers students, instructors, and staff access to a sele … more »
Reddy & Spence (2008)
sheiladenn wrote 6 months ago: Reddy, M.C., & Spence, P.R. (2008). Collaborative information seeking: A field study of a multid … more »
A Google Scholar Primer
annietv600 wrote 6 months ago: Almost a year ago I wrote A Google Primer, which some of you have told me you have found useful. T … more »
Playing games in libraries
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thinkingshift wrote 7 months ago: How cool! Over at Carnegie Mellon University, there are library games that centre around helping st … more »
Dewey's being dumped!
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thinkingshift wrote 8 months ago: Not too sure how good old Melvil Dewey would feel about this - the Dewey Decimal Classification (DD … more »
What are YOU looking for?
thinkingshift wrote 10 months ago: I guess like any other person obsessed with blogging (yep, sad I know), occasionally you have a look … more »
The Library as Myth
Lisa wrote 12 months ago: I just started reading The Library at Night, by Alberto Manguel. In this passage (p. 14), Manguel t … more »
Articles, Articles, More Articles...
Lisa wrote 1 year ago: Things have been busy lately. I was just searching for journal articles on LISA when I realized that … more »
The changing library: what clinicians need to know
annietv600 wrote 1 year ago: This article adapted from grand rounds presented by faculty from the Mt. Sinai Medical Center and … more »
Reaction to Googling for a diagnosis, a recent BMJ study
annietv600 wrote 1 year ago: I wasn’t going to write about the study published recently in the BMJ, mainly because every … more »
