... and writing in higher education. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 --> Information literacy Digital scholarship NextGen students The title of this book caught my eye, when it was offered for review. “Digital scholarship” was a phrase I was familiar with from work...

...Jane Secker Overall I would recommend this book for any busy professional teaching information literacy (or related fields) to inject some new ideas and enthusiasm into their teaching and pick up bags of practical and helpful advice with as aspects of planning and delivering teaching. If you...

...Jane Secker Thomas P.   Mackey and Trudi E.   Jacobson . Teaching Information Literacy Online . London : Facet Publishing   2011 . 200 pp. , ISBN: 978‐1‐85604‐767‐8   £44.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> Information Literacy Online learning...

...Susie Andretta Teresa S.   Welsh and Melissa S.   Wright . Information Literacy in the Digital Age: An Evidence‐based Approach . Oxford : Chandos Publishing   2010 . 218 pp. , ISBN: 978‐1‐ 84334‐515‐2   $47.00 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011...

... for information literacy co‐ordinators and those who manage training programmes. I often approach technology books with an air of caution, knowing they date very quickly. However, the editor of this series of books is Ellyssa Kroski, the US Librarian, information consultant and author of a really informative...

... knowledge, so this will be a helpful “how to” guide for anyone thinking about setting up a new wiki for their institution. Further Reading Bradley , P. (2007), How to Use Web 2.0 in Your Library , Facet Publishing , London . Internet Academic Libraries Information literacy...

... of locating “good citable stuff”, inability to use effectively the medical library, and poor skills in information searching were mentioned. The study recommends that medical librarians and faculty should collaborate in integrating information literacy skills into the medical school curriculum. Originality...

... and Trends . Witney : Chandos Publishing   2010 . 188 pp.   £45 (paperback) , ISBN: 978‐184334‐346‐2 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 --> Web 2.0 Academic libraries Information literacy Communication technology Web 2.0 and Libraries: Impacts, Technologies...

...). Appendix B lists suggested resources for teaching the invisible web; I sampled some of these and, despite the lengthy URLs, found that they are all still live. Appendix C gives the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Standards, which are used in the book to map...

... labelled as Library 2.0. Information literacy can be the key to affecting the learning attitudes and characteristics adopted by the users, caricatured as the “Web generation”. Web 2.0 tools provide new, interactive ways to engage them. The literature is reviewed to provide examples of librarians using Web...

...Tim Wales; Penny Robertson Purpose The aim of this paper is to share the experiences and challenges faced by the Open University Library (OUL) in using screen capture software to develop online literature search tutorials. Design/methodology/approach A summary of information literacy support...

... --> Website assessment Website characteristics Website usage Information literacy Product quality Worldwide web Internet A recent report, entitled Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future (CIBER, 2008) has come to the conclusion that, whilst young people, (the “Google...

...David Bawden Edited by J.   Secker , D.   Boden and G.   Price . The Information Literacy Cookbook: Ingredients, Recipes and Tips for Success . Oxford : Chandos Publishing   2007 . 162 pp. , ISBN: 978‐1‐84334‐225‐0   £39.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008...

... technologies, or who deliver more traditional information literacy sessions and would like to engage with their students in more innovative ways. As each chapter deals with a different aspect of new technology this is a useful book to dip into, or to share with colleagues. Edited by Joe M.   Williams...

...‐2958‐4   US$29.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> Reference services Academic libraries Information literacy This title is the first in a series of textbooks to be published by Haworth Press aimed, as stated in the preface, at “graduate students, entry‐level...

... learning Academic libraries Information literacy I asked to review this book because I have been managing a project about supporting distance learners and from my literature review (Secker, 2007) found relatively few monographs on this subject. I also found most of the material is written by US...

... Searching Search engines Information literacy I've been teaching web searching skills to staff at the London School of Economics (LSE) for a number of years now, despite claims that “everyone just uses Google” and that “only librarians like to search, everyone else just wants to find information...

... Worldwide web Information literacy Adult education Greece Web information retrieval is more demanding when the query terms are in a language which exhibits considerable morphological variance like Greek or Russian or Hebrew which are not based on the Latin alphabet (Kolliakou, 1996 ; Bar‐Ilan...

... context. Amy Brunvard then writes about an online information literacy course and how that has been developed to teach research skills at a distance. She demonstrates what has worked for her institution and how it could be used in other situations. Irmin Allner's chapter on copyright is the main...

...S.I. Humbert; E.A. Tilley Purpose The paper aims to provide advice, suggestions and encouragement for small budget‐restricted libraries contemplating the need for web site redesign where an underlying goal for improving users' information literacy is a key factor. Design/methodology/approach...