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Wiki o o g l e o pi a vs. Your Library Helping Your Students Become Critical Researchers

lib.unb.ca. Wiki o o g l e o pi a vs. Your Library Helping Your Students Become Critical Researchers. Barry Cull & James Mackenzie STLHE 29 th Annual Conference June 19, 2009 – UNB, Fredericton. lib.unb.ca. “ Wikipedia is the best thing ever ” “ Students ignored faculty’s warnings

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Wiki o o g l e o pi a vs. Your Library Helping Your Students Become Critical Researchers

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  1. lib.unb.ca Wikioogleopiavs.Your LibraryHelping Your Students Become Critical Researchers Barry Cull & James Mackenzie STLHE 29th Annual Conference June 19, 2009 – UNB, Fredericton

  2. lib.unb.ca “Wikipedia is the best thing ever” “Students ignored faculty’s warnings about using Wikipedia”

  3. lib.unb.ca Session Outline: • Wikipedia: Pros and Cons • The Google “Sisters”: Scholar & Books • Library e-Reference Tools • Library e-Journals, e-Books & Print • Student Pre-Evaluation Exercise vs. Let your students come to their own conclusions….

  4. Wikipedia • “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit” • New application, old concept • Don’t hide the steak knives! • Battle of Thermopylae

  5. Google Scholar / Books • “Stand on the shoulders of giants” • Search Utopia • The high cost of meta-search • The missing links…

  6. lib.unb.ca Library e-Reference Tools • Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology • Blackwell Reference Online • Encyclopedia of Life Sciences • OED Online • One-stop shopping (almost): • subject guides: an example

  7. lib.unb.ca e-Journals, e-Books & Books • Most academic libraries have extensive e-journal collections: UNB’s, for example • Most academic libraries also have significant e-book collections: UNB’s, for example • And most academic libraries • still buy print books too!

  8. lib.unb.ca Wikioogleopiavs.Your LibrarySo, which provides the best information?Let your students come to their own conclusions…

  9. lib.unb.ca Student Group Exercise: Pre-Evaluation Imagine you are writing a research paper related to the topic of reading. You have found many publications related to the topic, including the one in your hands….

  10. lib.unb.ca As a group, answer these two questions: • What type of publication is it? (e.g., book, journal article, website, etc.) • Would you refer to it • in a research paper? • Why or why not? • (Especially consider • its reliability.)

  11. lib.unb.ca • Reading (process) • Reading on Screen: The New Media Sphere • Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain • Reading and the Reading Class in the Twenty-First Century

  12. lib.unb.ca bcull@unb.ca jmackenz@unb.ca

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