Leslie F. Stebbins
Autor de Student Guide to Research in the Digital Age: How to Locate and Evaluate Information Sources
Sobre El Autor
Leslie F. Stebbins has twenty-five years of experience in higher education and a background in information science, instructional design, research, and teaching. She has a master's in education from the Technology Innovation Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a mostrar más master's in information science from Simmons College. She is the director for research at Consulting Services for Education (CS4Ed) Her clients both at CS4Ed and as an independent consultant have included Harvard University, the California State University Chancellor's Office, and the U.S. Department of Education. She is the author of numerous articles and three books, including the popular Student Guide to Research in the Digital Age. For more information, visit http://www.lesliestebbins.com. mostrar menos
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Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of… por Leslie F. Stebbins
Interesting delve into the reality of searching online and why Google isn't going to replace information specialists. I'd have liked it to be longer if anything. Useful for the public as well as librarians etc.
I can see how this would be good for students: the main points are repeated in every chapter. Sometimes she goes deeper into an investigation for no reason, just to teach a lesson, but it works.
She hits on the basic gist of the internet today:
She hits on the basic gist of the internet today:
Content farms are the bane of the Web, and at times they threaten to topple Google with their armies of low-paid "astroturfing" freelance writers and video creators who crank out enormous piles of poor-quality content.
Read from November 02 to 23, 2015
This has been my lunch-time read for the past couple of weeks. A great reminder about searching in the age of information overload. In each chapter, Stebbins takes a question and goes through her process for finding the answer. Sounds boring, right? Surprisingly, it isn't, but I AM a a librarian. At times it was repetitive with each chapter covering certain issues more than once (ex. heuristics, yes we have them, we all use them, be aware of them.). However, this also means an instructor could pull out one chapter to provide an example for a class rather than have them read the entire book. It should TOTALLY be required reading for anyone doing ANY kind of research -- travel, food, science, health -- it has a little something for the many types of everyday Googler (because just going to Google isn't REALLY research therefore I cannot call them researchers).
Also, this should be required reading for anyone who who wants to argue with me about something they "read on the Internet." Just because it's the first link in your Google search, doesn't mean it's accurate!
Overall, a pretty boring topic that Stebbins managed to make interesting (I think even for non-informational professionals).
(Also, I yawned seven times while reading the last chapter.)… (más)
This has been my lunch-time read for the past couple of weeks. A great reminder about searching in the age of information overload. In each chapter, Stebbins takes a question and goes through her process for finding the answer. Sounds boring, right? Surprisingly, it isn't, but I AM a a librarian. At times it was repetitive with each chapter covering certain issues more than once (ex. heuristics, yes we have them, we all use them, be aware of them.). However, this also means an instructor could pull out one chapter to provide an example for a class rather than have them read the entire book. It should TOTALLY be required reading for anyone doing ANY kind of research -- travel, food, science, health -- it has a little something for the many types of everyday Googler (because just going to Google isn't REALLY research therefore I cannot call them researchers).
Also, this should be required reading for anyone who who wants to argue with me about something they "read on the Internet." Just because it's the first link in your Google search, doesn't mean it's accurate!
Overall, a pretty boring topic that Stebbins managed to make interesting (I think even for non-informational professionals).
(Also, I yawned seven times while reading the last chapter.)… (más)
The Call Number in our library is ZA3075 S74 2006. I have read up to and including page 33 as at (Sat)30-5-2009.
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