From Google books to library catalogs: A consumerist exploration of information literacy for graduate students in Slavic studies

Slavic and East European Information Resources

Volumn 10, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 221-234

  Wallach, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Graduate students; Information literacy; Libraries; Library instruction; Slavic bibliography; Slavic studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449732379     PISSN: 15228886     EISSN: 15229041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15228880903046257     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Anthony Grafton, "Future Reading: Digitization and Its Discontents," New Yorker, November 5, 2007, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/05/071105fa_fact_grafton.
2. School of Library, Archive and Information Studies (SLAIS), University College of London, "Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future ('Google Generation' project)," CIBER Briefing Paper, January 11, 2008, 1-35, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/research/ciber/ downloads/.
3. Grafton, "Future Reading."
4. "Most are already generating their own content in the form of e-mails, blogs, wikis, and personal websites.... The scale of this phenomenon is unprecedented in human history.... Library sponsored content is shrinking in relative terms and it will become more difficult to find as users land where the search engines take them, not where librarians think they 'ought' to land." SLAIS, "Information Behaviour," 27.
5. Several recent articles develop recommendations for information and literacy outreach to scholars in the humanities, including Andy Barrett, "The Information-Seeking Habits of Graduate Student Researchers in the Humanities," Journal of Academic Librarianship 31, no. 4 (2005): 324-331
6. and John W. East, "Information Literacy for the Humanities Researcher: A Syllabus Based on Information Habits Research," Journal of Academic Librarianship 31, no. 2 (2005): 134-142.
7. Phenomenography is a framework for an empirical study of the qualitatively different ways in which people experience and conceive of the various aspects of the world around them. Ecological psychology posits that an individual's behavior is contextualized within the individual's environment. The concept of affordance looks at the opportunities an individual is offered. These and other theories borrowed from the social sciences provide methodologies for studying the information-seeking behavior of researchers. See Stuart Boon, Bill Johnston, and Sheila Webber, "A Phenomenographic Study of English Faculty's Conceptions of Information Literacy," Journal of Documentation 63, no. 2 (2007): 204-228
8. and Elizabeth Sadler and Lisa M. Given, "Affordance Theory: A Framework for Graduate Students' Information Behavior," Journal of Documentation 63, no. 1 (2007): 115-141.
9. Edward Kasinec, "How Might One Teach Slavic Bibliology to the Humanist and Social Scientist: A "Modest" Critique of Consumerism in Slavic Bibliography," in Slavic Books and Bookmen (New York: Russica Publishers, 1984), 185-186.
10. Kasinec, "How Might One Teach," 186.
11. For example, many established art journals, which are published in print form and are accessible in electronic format through such services as the Wilson Omnifile to multiple simultaneous users and which can be easily forwarded via e-mail, mark art reproductions in the electronic copy with a black box to indicate that the reproduction is published in the print edition.
12. Carole L. Palmer and Laura J. Neumann, "The Information Work of Interdisciplinary Humanities Scholars: Exploration and Translation," Library Quarterly 72 no. 1 (2002): 85-117. The authors provide a succinct, yet detailed description of the basic structures and problems of humanities research.
13. Barrett, "Information-Seeking Habits," 327.
14. ACRL, "Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education," http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/ informationliteracycompetency.cfm.
15. ARCL, "Information Literacy Competency Standards."