Tag Archives: Bill Drew

How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age

Posted on 2 December 2009 by Rick Mason

How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age (pdf) is a report from Project Information Literacy, maintained by the Information School at the University of Washington that contains a few surprises for libraries: Course readings were the first place … Continue reading →

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APA Offers to Replace 6th Edition of Style Manual

Posted on 28 October 2009 by Rick Mason

For the background on this issue, see Quis custodiet isos custodes. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the American Psychological Association has decided to offer copies of the second printing of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, … Continue reading →

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2006 ECAR study released

Posted on 13 January 2007 by Rick Mason

The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2006 (3MB Pdf here), the third annual report, has been released.  These have been very informative reports, containing information on a broad range of student/IT interactions. thanks to Bill Drew for … Continue reading →

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Library Student Journal

Posted on 2 December 2006 by Rick Mason

There is a new publication out there in libraryland, and it is peer-reviewed and open-access (two of my favorite hyphens)! Library Student Journal is being published by the School of Informatics at the University of Buffalo in New York, and … Continue reading →

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