Monday, February 14, 2005

Teaching Students to Swim in the Online Sea

Interesting from the NYT (LINK)

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Up to now, librarians have taken the lead in developing information literacy standards and curriculums. There's a certain paradox in that, because a lot of people assumed that the digital age would require neither libraries nor librarians. But today, students have only limited contact with librarians, particularly because they do most of their online information-seeking at home or in the dorm.

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