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Tuesday, 3rd August 2010

"A Blended Librarian Talks Information Literacy"

From an Article By Jennifer Howard:

It will surprise very few people to learn that having grown up in a computer age does not make today's students automatically savvy consumers of electronic resources. "It’s almost like information overload—like there’s so much of it out there, they just tend to gravitate to what they’re comfortable with," Mark McBride says of the students he works with at Buffalo State College of the State University of New York. "If they find a need for it, they don’t really evaluate it, they just start using it."

Mr. McBride is a blended librarian at Buffalo State. "Blended librarian" sounds like some kind of power smoothie. It's actually a fairly new model of academic librarianship that took root about five years ago. It combines traditional reference skills with hardware and software know-how and an interest in applying them to curriculum development and teaching. (Read more about the movement's history and goals at the Blended Librarian Web site, which features the slogan "Blending Instructional Design, Technology, and Librarianship.")

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Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education

See Also: New Research from Eszter Hargittai (Full Text): Not as Web Savvy as You May Think; Young People, Web Search, and Credibility

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