Comments on: Discovery skills versus evaluation skills http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/06/25/discovery-skills-versus-evaluation-skills/ It is and we do. Musing, enthusing, libraries, emerging technologies, balancing, being mum. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:43:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Three Pillars Customer Support Help Desk Software. | 7Wins.eu http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/06/25/discovery-skills-versus-evaluation-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-41471 Three Pillars Customer Support Help Desk Software. | 7Wins.eu Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:39:21 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/06/25/discovery-skills-versus-evaluation-skills/#comment-41471 [...] » Blog Archive » Book Review: About Face 3Ning Shuts Down Premium Developer WidgetLaboratory Librarians Matter » Blog Archive » Discovery skills versus evaluation skills Tags help desk software help desk support help desk support software helpdesk software This [...]

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]]> By: Peter Godwin http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/06/25/discovery-skills-versus-evaluation-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-40597 Peter Godwin Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:50:27 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/06/25/discovery-skills-versus-evaluation-skills/#comment-40597 Brilliant! I have been saying similar things for at least the past two years! Part of the problem is that librarians don't always feel comfortable teaching evaluation. In their obsession with teaching searching (especially their databases) they leave aside the need to be able to evaluate what the students find. By banging on about complex search strategies, they end up terrifying the participants and making it more likely they will end up in Google. There is nothing wrong in going to Google : depends on the search need, and ensuiring they have the knowledge to use other sources as appropriate. Same goes for Wikipedia. In a session I gave for librarians in Bradford a few weeks ago I asked them which of the SCONUL Seven Pillars framework http://www.sconul.ac.uk/groups/information_literacy/headline_skills.html they thought was the most important to teach in the future. I was very pleased (and slightly surprised) that they picked the evaluation one so all is not lost! Web 2.0 technologies give us new ways to teach : how about using Wikipedia against other sources or top see the way information is built up ? How about delicious for collecting resources for evaluation or for sharing?See our book "Information Literacy meets Library 2.0" http://www.facetshop.co.uk/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=1&Product_Code=637-4&Category_Code= Brilliant! I have been saying similar things for at least the past two years! Part of the problem is that librarians don’t always feel comfortable teaching evaluation. In their obsession with teaching searching (especially their databases) they leave aside the need to be able to evaluate what the students find. By banging on about complex search strategies, they end up terrifying the participants and making it more likely they will end up in Google. There is nothing wrong in going to Google : depends on the search need, and ensuiring they have the knowledge to use other sources as appropriate. Same goes for Wikipedia.
In a session I gave for librarians in Bradford a few weeks ago I asked them which of the SCONUL Seven Pillars framework http://www.sconul.ac.uk/groups/information_literacy/headline_skills.html
they thought was the most important to teach in the future. I was very pleased (and slightly surprised) that they picked the evaluation one so all is not lost!
Web 2.0 technologies give us new ways to teach : how about using Wikipedia against other sources or top see the way information is built up ? How about delicious for collecting resources for evaluation or for sharing?See our book “Information Literacy meets Library 2.0″ http://www.facetshop.co.uk/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=1&Product_Code=637-4&Category_Code=

]]> By: Evaluation vs. Discovery « Starry Dynamo Librarians: Connecting Imaginative Instruction and Emerging Technologies http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/06/25/discovery-skills-versus-evaluation-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-40579 Evaluation vs. Discovery « Starry Dynamo Librarians: Connecting Imaginative Instruction and Emerging Technologies Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:04:38 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/06/25/discovery-skills-versus-evaluation-skills/#comment-40579 [...] August 6, 2008 · No Comments via: Librarians Matter [...] [...] August 6, 2008 · No Comments via: Librarians Matter [...]

]]> By: Social Software, libraries & distance learners » Blog Archive » Information literacy meets Library 2.0 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/06/25/discovery-skills-versus-evaluation-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-40565 Social Software, libraries & distance learners » Blog Archive » Information literacy meets Library 2.0 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:43:26 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/06/25/discovery-skills-versus-evaluation-skills/#comment-40565 [...] post from Kathryn Greenhill recently where she considered the role of librarians in teaching discovery skills verses evaluation skills. She makes a lot of interesting points and pulls together some great resources here including [...] [...] post from Kathryn Greenhill recently where she considered the role of librarians in teaching discovery skills verses evaluation skills. She makes a lot of interesting points and pulls together some great resources here including [...]

]]> By: Stephen Michael Kellat http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/06/25/discovery-skills-versus-evaluation-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-39393 Stephen Michael Kellat Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:35:54 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/06/25/discovery-skills-versus-evaluation-skills/#comment-39393 Kathryn, if you were speaking to me via Skype you would be eliciting a vigorous amen. This is where professional practice needs to go. Discovery is great and many folks in the US can do that. Few can evaluate what they find. This may explain why I am seemingly out of step with American library practice as of late. Kathryn, if you were speaking to me via Skype you would be eliciting a vigorous amen. This is where professional practice needs to go. Discovery is great and many folks in the US can do that. Few can evaluate what they find.

This may explain why I am seemingly out of step with American library practice as of late.

]]> By: Library & Literary Miscellany Links of the Week » Library & Literary Miscellany http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/06/25/discovery-skills-versus-evaluation-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-39377 Library & Literary Miscellany Links of the Week » Library & Literary Miscellany Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:44:42 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/06/25/discovery-skills-versus-evaluation-skills/#comment-39377 [...] Discovery Skills Versus Evaluation Skills by Librarians Matter: discusses whether we are focusing too much on teaching discovery of information resources to the detriment of providing instruction on strategies for evaluating said resources [...] [...] Discovery Skills Versus Evaluation Skills by Librarians Matter: discusses whether we are focusing too much on teaching discovery of information resources to the detriment of providing instruction on strategies for evaluating said resources [...]

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