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Library instruction<\/strong>
I’ve recently been pondering the idea of database searches as an experiment – hypothesis, experiment, evaluate, modify the hypothesis and try again. This might make a useful way to introduce sci\/tech students in particular to the idea that you’re not going to necessarily get your best results from your first search; I’ll have to see how they receive it when I’ve actually got a class to test it on.<\/p>\n

Incorporating Failure Into Library Instruction<\/a> (from ACRLog) discusses the pedagogy of learning by failure and talks about times when it’s more or less suitable for library instruction.<\/p>\n

Anne Pemberton’s super-awesome paper From friending to research: Using Facebook as a teaching tool<\/a> (January 2011, College & Research Libraries News, vol. 72 no. 1 28-30) discusses Facebook as a useful teaching metaphor for databases.<\/p>\n

Don’t Make It Easy For Them<\/a> (from ACRLog) – with caveats in the comments that I think are at least as important as the main post.<\/p>\n

Databases<\/strong>
Heads they win, tales we lose: Discovery tools will never deliver on their promise<\/a> – and don’t miss the comment thread at the bottom of the page, which segues into the dilemma of increasingly expensive journal bundles and possible (vs viable) solutions.<\/p>\n

Research data<\/strong>
There’s a whole D-Lib Magazine issue<\/a> devoted to this topic this month.<\/p>\n

Web services<\/strong>
The Web Is a Customer Service Medium<\/a> discusses the idea that “the fundamental question of the web” is “Why wasn’t I consulted?” – that is, each medium has its niche of what it’s good at and why people use it, and webpages need to consider how to answer this question.<\/p>\n

Library Day in the Life<\/strong>
Round 6<\/a> begins next week, in which librarians from all walks of librarianship share a day (or week) in the life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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