Monthly Archives: June 2010

Real life information literacy

June 23, 2010 – 1:04 pm

I recently saw a very interesting case study of information literacy in a blog I follow, but before I tell that story, I need to provide a little background first. About a month ago I attended two information literacy events at Purdue University: the first was a day-long workshop by Ross Todd, from the library […]

By Catherine | Posted in Critical thinking, Students | Comments (3)

Uphill, both ways, in the snow

June 7, 2010 – 11:13 am

I am old enough to have used the Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature, in print. There. I said it.  As a matter of fact, I used print indices of various sorts right through my undergraduate degree and my first graduate program.  (Ah, those print volumes of RILM, eventually supplanted by the CD-ROM version that ran […]

By Catherine | Posted in Students, Those dang databases | Comments (1)