{"id":106,"date":"2011-08-23T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2011-08-23T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T01:30:00","slug":"links-of-interest-2382011-what-students-dont-know-and-bonus-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/links-of-interest-2382011-what-students-dont-know-and-bonus-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"Links of Interest 23\/8\/2011 &#8211; What Students Don&#8217;t Know (and bonus marketing)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has exploded onto the various networks I follow, so it seems a good time to gather some other links with it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2011\/08\/22\/erial_study_of_student_research_habits_at_illinois_university_libraries_reveals_alarmingly_poor_information_literacy_and_skills\">What students don&#8217;t know<\/a> gives an overview of findings from an ethnographic study of how students at various Illinois universities research, and is a vital read for anyone in the academic environment working with students.<\/p>\n<p>Related links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.erialproject.org\/\">Project home<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The study will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alastore.ala.org\/detail.aspx?ID=3300\">published as a monograph<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A similar study in 2007 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alastore.ala.org\/detail.aspx?ID=2322\">Studying Students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester<\/a> is also available (including a <a href=\"http:\/\/docushare.lib.rochester.edu\/docushare\/dsweb\/View\/Collection-4436\">free online version<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>In 1993 Barbara Fister wrote the still-relevant and -mindblowing article <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.gac.edu\/~fister\/rs.html\">Teaching the Rhetorical Dimensions of Research<\/a>, reading which made me modify a class I was preparing for mid-way through pulling the powerpoint together.<\/li>\n<li>Ibid, 2011, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/blogs\/library_babel_fish\/search_how_libraries_do_it_wrong\">Search: How Libraries Do it Wrong<\/a> draws links between problems with how we teach search to students and with how we interact with academics and &#8220;the small things, the seemingly trivial things, that can drive people to find ways around libraries.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unrelated links, on marketing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gavia Libraria writes about all those times people say &#8220;So you&#8217;re a librarian? So&#8230; you&#8230; shelve books?&#8230;&#8221; and suggests <a href=\"http:\/\/gavialib.com\/2011\/08\/representing-ourselves\/\">Representing Ourselves<\/a> by telling people what we <em>do<\/em> (in elevator pitch format &#8211; she gives examples) rather than waste time attempting to argue about stereotypes.<\/li>\n<li>Mr Library Dude collects a bunch of <a href=\"http:\/\/mrlibrarydude.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/05\/game-on-social-media-ideas-prizes-for-libraries\/\">Social Media Ideas &#038; Prizes for Libraries<\/a> from various libraries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has exploded onto the various networks I follow, so it seems a good time to gather some other links with it: What students don&#8217;t know gives an overview of findings from an ethnographic study of how students at various Illinois universities research, and is a vital read for anyone in the academic environment working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[117,73,48,58,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}