Blogs about: Information Seeking

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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 »

Tags: Libraries

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 »

Tags: Series or Collections, Web Resources / Search Tools

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 »

Tags: information seeking habits

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 »

Tags: Consumer Health

"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 »

Tags: Our profession, The Cataloguer, The Library Catalogue

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 »

Tags: Internet, information seeking habits

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 »

Tags: Internet, Consumer Health, Future of libraries

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 »

Tags: Federal Digital Documents about Alaska, Libraries, Federal Government, E-government

Shneiderman (2007)

sheiladenn wrote 4 months ago: Shneiderman, B. (2007). Creativity support tools: Accelerating discovery and innovation. Communicati … more »

Tags: Creativity, Readings

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 »

Tags: Uncategorized

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 »

Tags: Readings

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 »

Tags: Web Resources / Search Tools, Literature Searching

Playing games in libraries1 comment

thinkingshift wrote 7 months ago: How cool! Over at Carnegie Mellon University, there are library games that centre around helping st … more »

Tags: information literacy, Information Management, Information visualisation, librarians, Libraries

Dewey's being dumped!1 comment

thinkingshift wrote 8 months ago: Not too sure how good old Melvil Dewey would feel about this - the Dewey Decimal Classification (DD … more »

Tags: Information Management, librarians, Libraries

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 »

Tags: fun stuff, Reflections

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 »

Tags: Reading, Libraries

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 »

Tags: Learning, Research

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 »

Tags: Literature Searching

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 »

Tags: Patient Care, Web Resources / Search Tools


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