Monday, November 07, 2011

Top 10 Things we All Should Know about Today’s Research Environment

Posted recently to a library listserv:

I would suggest, The Top 10 Things we All Should Know about Today’s Research Environment.

It could include (in no particular order) such elements as:

1. Sources of information are changing
2. Search in today’s databases is complex
3. Students don’t understand the research process
4. Students don’t know they don’t understand the research process
5. Faculty are increasingly baffled by research technology, and that can be corrected
6. Librarians hold the key to the information kingdom
7. You need librarians, and so do your students
8. Today’s academic databases offer so much more than keyword searching
9. Electronic full text is winning the day
10. Wikipedia is not Public Enemy Number One