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Library CONNection
UConn Blog (Storrs) covering library related information. http://uconnlibrary.wordpress.com/
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How College Students Evaluate and Use Information in the Digital Age
How do students evaluate information and use it once they have found it? What difficulties do students encounter with research for courses and for personal use from start to finish? Read the Project...
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Not so savvy searchers
Higher Ed article indicates that a “two-year, five-campus ethnographic study examining how students view and use their campus libraries: students rarely ask librarians for help, even when they need it....
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Student assignments don’t always address academic needs
Why are students asked to write as if they were doing an article for JStor instead of the New York Times Magazine? Then we wonder why they can’t effectively paraphrase and avoid plagiarism....
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Rethinking How Research Is Taught to Today’s College Students–“…begging them...
“I think many first year writing instructors teach the research paper as a survival skill, knowing it’s a kind of writing students will be asked to do, though really they would learn more about writing...
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Pew Report indicates that young Americans are still reading More about young people reading habits. Print and electronic materials seems to be co-existed and are both used in the library by young...
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Copyright for Faculty
How does copyright law apply to you as a faculty-member when distributing copies of articles, placing items on reserve, or sharing your own published material? Copyright on Campus provides basic...
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Web Reading – or should we say skimming?
On average, online readers are actually skimming information on webpages. Web page visitors apparently spend as much time “reading” as trying to figure out how to navigate the page and checking out...
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The Rise of Phone Reading
“It’s not the e-reader that will be driving future books sales, it’s the phone; how publishers are rethinking books for the small screen” Phone Reading
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